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• Cisco unveils data center blade switch

  Cisco this week unveiled a blade addition to its Nexus line of data center switches that’s designed to aggregate multiple physical x86 blade servers from various vendors into a 10G Ethernet fabric.

• Chambers' pay package climbs 16% while Cisco net income falls 23%

  Cisco CEO John Chambers got a 16% raise this year, according to calculations made by the Associated Press, including a US$2 million bonus for vision and leadership.

• Cisco patches a dozen router bugs

  Cisco Systems has released its twice-yearly set of security patches for its router firmware, fixing 12 security flaws in the products.

• Cisco reportedly taps Microsoft exec to head collaboration

  Cisco is reportedly tapping a high ranking Microsoft executive to be the new head of its collaboration software group.

• Cisco IronPort data-loss prevention: beta testers share insights

  Beta testers of a data-loss prevention add-on to Cisco's IronPort security appliances say DLP is looking like a fine complement to existing anti-virus and anti-spam filtering capabilities.

• Cisco forms smart grid ecosystem

  Cisco is lining up partners in its smart grid initiative, an effort to upgrade utility information infrastructures with Cisco routers and switches.

• Cisco's Chambers gets $US2 million payout despite bad year

  Cisco Systems gave Chairman and CEO John Chambers a discretionary incentive payment of more than US$2 million for the company's 2009 fiscal year, despite the fact that net income fell nearly 24 percent from the previous year on sales that were down almost 9 percent.

• Cisco readying collaboration software platform

  Cisco Systems is developing a collaboration software platform that will allow enterprises to combine social networking, presence, content and transactional applications in a single interface.

• Cisco, EMC starting new joint venture company?

  Cisco and EMC are said to be forming a joint venture company to develop an integrated data center platform for computing, networking and storage.

• Inside Cisco’s Sydney data and technical support centre

  Networking giant Cisco Systems has a secret gem hidden within its global operations – a $120 million technical assistance centre (TAC) in the northern Sydney suburb of Chatswood. One of only four such centres in the world, the Sydney TAC handles Cisco’s customer support load for six hours of every day. The Sydney location also has a data centre which is used for development, problem solving and interoperability testing. The data centre is the first in Australia to demonstrate Cisco’s entrance into the server space - the Unified Computing System.

• Cisco downplays WLAN vulnerability

  Cisco Systems downplayed a vulnerability in some of its wireless access points, reporting Tuesday that there is no risk of data loss or interception.

• Cisco wireless LAN vulnerability could open 'back door'

  Some wireless access points from Cisco Systems have a vulnerability that could allow a hacker to redirect traffic outside the enterprise or potentially gain access to an entire corporate network, a security company said.

• Cisco posts Q4 decline but sees promise

  Cisco Systems' revenue fell 18 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter ended July 25, hitting US$8.5 billion, while its net income dropped to $1.1 billion, or $0.19 per share.

• Perth hotelier uses technology to grow in the downturn

  The managing director of two upscale hotels in Perth attributes his ability to grow revenue in a downturn to technology.

• Cisco's storage team looks to boost IBM mainframe performance, security

  Cisco is trying to enhance storage performance on the IBM mainframe as well as third-party SAN products with new features added to its MDS 9000 storage networking product line. The goal is to enhance security and accelerate data traffic over distances as great as 20,000 kilometers halfway around the world, Cisco says.