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Seeks seasoned marketing help to drive partner programsJuniper is poaching two familiar territories as it stocks up on marketing executives: Cisco and Microsoft. These moves are key for Juniper as it looks to emulate the channel success of Cisco and Mi…

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KJ: Certainly that's what we've seen as market share has shifted, and as Juniper introduced the first core router, we rapidly took market share in core …See all stories on this topic »

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Juniper took one-third of Cisco's share in core routing shortly after coming … Router 7750 optimized for traffic management and processing of IPTV, WebTV, …

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As the latest VMworld begins its transformation from current event to memory, now probably is as good a time as any to reflect on what it all means, if anything, for the future of data centers, the IT industry, and … Continue reading →

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As embedded security become the norm, vendors talk about it less and less, but embedded security shouldn’t be assumed security, says Larry Walsh

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Two vendors were noticeably absent from a unified communication interoperability group announced last week. Indeed, the two of the leading vendors of unified communications: Cisco and Avaya.
It might be because the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum was founded by a handful of their competitors. Microsoft, Polycom, Juniper and HP are all involved, as is LifeSize, which makes a competing…

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In a recent story in the Ottawa Citizen about Huawei establishing an R&D center in Canada’s capital city, journalist Bert Hill mentioned in passing that the Chinese telecommunications-equipment vendor played no small part in the evisceration and ultimate demise of Nortel Networks, Ottawa’s one-time technology kingpin. Make no mistake, Nortel had enormous self-destructive tendencies, and [...]

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When I first learned of the alleged acquisitive interest Apax Partners was said to have expressed toward Polycom, I dismissed it as nothing more than a media head fake.
Let’s consider: When news of that sort is leaked, it’s made public for a reason. In this context, it seemed, the reason was to bring [...]

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James Fallows conducted a telephone interview with David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, and posed a salient question that most of the business press has not bothered to ask.
Quoting from Fallows’ interview with Drummond:
I then asked Drummond about something that has always puzzled me. If the original occasion for the shift of policy [...]

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We posted an aside yesterday referencing Microsoft’s recent blog post for new security advisory 981374 referencing a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. New details have emerged since, and the exploit has moved from being what was described as part of “limited targeted attacks” to being widely accessible and available as a new module for the Metasploit framework.

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In his column this week at MarketWatch, John C. Dvorak muses about potential acquisitions that Hewlett-Packard might pursue.
Seizing on recent comments from HP CEO Mark Hurd regarding intensifying competition with Cisco and Oracle — proud owner of Sun Microsystems and all of its hardware and software technologies — Dvorak posits that HP might acquire [...]

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The big news hit earlier this week, the attack vector that allowed bad actors presumably from China into the networks of Google, Juniper, Adobe, and some 30 other firms was an Internet Explorer zero day, a use after free vulnerability on an invalid pointer reference affecting IE 6, 7, and 8 but only used in IE 6 according to Microsoft. Per Microsoft’s Advisory 979352: “In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.. Earlier today this entry from yesterday at Wepawet (an online analysis engine for malware) was pointed out to H.D. Moore, and within hours Metasploit has an exploit of the vulnerability integrated. McAfee has confirmed that the exploit is out and the same one they saw during the investigation. The video below demonstrates how crackers gained access to the corporate networks of Google, et al. using this zero day attack.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 10, 2009 — Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today confirmed its Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) security systems and Integrated Security Gateway (ISG) firewall/virtual private network (VPN) systems with IDP offer protection for new Microsoft vulnerabilities announced today. Additional information about Juniper Networks security solutions can be found [...]

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The company's team is to develop router technologies that include strong authentication and self configuration capabilities to improve security, …

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