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Position: Left for the proportion of unrepaired holes, the right to not repair the "key" and "high" risk ratio

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 early morning news, according to foreign media reports, last Wednesday IBM security research team published a major software maker of software security vulnerabilities on their own repair reports, and gain a position.

Rankings, IBM’s own software, 29% of the “critical” and “high” risk has not been fixed, for the major software vendors in the worst performance. And Google are both ranked in the best performance, so that all the open holes (including the critical and high-risk vulnerabilities) have timely patches.

The report published twice a year, mainly to track within six months the major software vulnerabilities and hacker attack exploited the situation, while the major software vendors to fix known vulnerabilities were investigated and ranked by the survey, including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and IBM own and so on.

The survey found that Microsoft first half of 2010, 23% of known software vulnerabilities have not been repaired, ranking first in the major software vendors, followed by Mozilla (Mozilla) of 17%, Apple 12%, IBM Sun 9% and 8%.

In the known “critical” and “high” risk ratio is not fixed, IBM in the first half of the figure as high as 29%, the highest ranking, followed by Oracle’s 22%, Novell 10%, 7% of Microsoft and HP’s 5%.

However, IBM in this survey did not distinguish between the use of loopholes and cyber crime from the security researchers discovered vulnerabilities. In fact, the survey most of the loopholes in the statistics is the so-called “white hat” hackers discovered, they will not use loopholes to attack, but only make the software more secure.

Reported, such investigation report urged the major software vendors are often able to fix known vulnerabilities in its software so as to enhance software security.

Cius today introduced the Cisco Business Tablet PC, using Android system, providing a virtual desktop integration, so that can be used any where, any time of the full cooperation and communication of Cisco’s applications, including high definition video.

It is reported that Cisco Cius tablet PCs target price is not more than one thousand U.S. dollars, the customer trial version will be released the third quarter of 2010, officially listed in the first quarter of 2011.

Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable device weighs only 1.15 pounds (0.52 kilograms), will Cisco’s collaboration productivity applications extended to a highly secure mobile platform. In addition to full interoperability of Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Cius also provides high-definition video streaming and real-time video conferencing technology, e-mail, messaging, browsing, and generate, edit, share, or stored in a local content server cloud .

Based Android operating system, Cisco Cius for open communication and collaboration platform, its form factor and applications designed to more securely established everywhere the staff with the right connections between objects in real time to these employees provide access from any location and share network resources.

Cisco Cius for the IT professionals a new choice for mobile workers, it provides a computing device. Through the integration of virtual desktops, Cisco Cius provides flexible server-based cloud computing options, such services cost of funds and for the desktop users to maintain a very low personal cost.

Enterprises can also enjoy the growing Android development community, they are the appropriate IT control through the establishment of enterprise-level production applications. Computing applications and flexibility for today’s choices each desktop to provide a computer model of a variety of new options.

Cisco Cius is a lightweight portable Tablet PC business, provided with a handset speakerphone, high-definition display port and USB interface, high-definition video station.

Cisco Cius Tablet PC is equipped with front-720p HD camera, 30 frames per second refresh rate; 7-inch, high-resolution Super VGA touch screen wide screen for real-time video and streaming media player, one button can telepresence interoperability In the Tablet PC docking station, or via Wi-Fi remote control.

Tablet PC is equipped with 5 megapixels in the rear view camera, can be used to transport fluid VGA-quality video and capture still images, double down bad microphone for video meetings.

Cisco Cius prominent real contact leading user experience designed to help users quickly find their important contacts.

Loaded accelerometers allows the user rotating equipment, the application automatically apply to portrait or landscape mode.

Cisco cisus support for enterprise campus mobile 802.11 a / b / g / n Wi-Fi, support for 3G mobile phones outside the park to the server. 4G service will be launched later. Bluetooth and mini-USB allows users to radio work, and computers to share data.

Removable and durable battery provides 8 hours under normal use, the operating life.

Enterprise application integration

Cisco cius support includes Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and Share, Cisco WebEx Connect, Cisco WebEx Meeting Center, Cisco Presence and Cisco Cisco TelePresence and other collaborative applications.

Cisco Cius Cisco Unified Communications Manager system by the support, can easily be integrated into the existing Cisco customer environment.

Cisco Cius Cisco AnyConnnect VPN, to ensure a more secure mobile collaboration experience.

Virtual desktop integration to enable IT professionals to ensure that the software applications in the data center security, and can at any time and any place to send them through the Cisco Networking applications. Cisco Cius thus support the data center consolidation, reducing software licensing costs.

Supported by the Android operating system, by controlling user access policies, Cisco Cius enable business users to take advantage of cost-effective by third-party applications expanding the composition of the ecosystem.

Through collaboration with Cisco to provide developers with an application protocol interfaces (APIs), Cisco will help expand business Android application development.

October 9, according to media reports, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that the company’s right to sell their produce smart phones “no interest”, even though an alliance with the smart phone industry will help promote growth in demand for network equipment.

Chambers said, “We like to be able to stimulate the demand for network bandwidth product, I put RIM, Apple and Palm as partners, because of their cooperation will help promote the sales of network equipment. I think they also look at Cisco so.”

Chambers said he is currently focused on the same RIM, Apple and Palm co-operation to address the network equipment needed for smart phones. Smartphone use these network devices to access and download the application.

Chambers, then let us also think of Cisco’s one initiative after, that is, to 590 million U.S. dollars this year, Cisco’s acquisition of Flip Camcorder Manufacturer Pure Digital, into the portable consumer electronics market. At that time Chambers said that the purpose of the transaction is not obtained Flip camcorder products, but rather access to the software and network bandwidth can stimulate demand for technology. Chambers said in an interview said, “I am not interested in mobile phones.”

Wu said, “In the short term, Cisco may not need to set foot in the smart phone market. But in the long term, the company may have to enter this market. As the features are integrated into the smart phone, Cisco‘s Flip businesses will face tremendous pressure. ”

Chambers said, “video, and collaboration are the two major moves this year.” A few days ago, Cisco has just allowed to buy Norway’s Tandberg video conferencing equipment. Chambers said, “will be around next-generation video.”

Chambers reiterated the same day, due to economic recovery and opened up new markets, the company continues to take a long-term annual growth target of 12%% to 17%. He said that over the past year and a half years the majority of customers are as far as possible spending cuts, but now they say ‘Where can I grow’. He also said that Cisco will continue to be through the acquisition and development of advanced technology to actively explore new markets.

In climbing the peak of world-class enterprise on the road, Huawei also get rid of a big rival. According to market research firm Dell’Oro has recently released data show that in the global telecom equipment market, Huawei has surpassed the Nokia Siemens, and into the second-largest telecom equipment supplier. As of the end of the third quarter of this year, Huawei’s share of 11% from the same period last year rose to 20%, jumping to second; and Ericsson continue to dominate the first-place position, a share of 32%.

At present, Huawei’s objective is aimed to send competitors strength of Ericsson. In the telecom equipment vendors, Ericsson, not only in revenue and market share for many years maintained a boss position, but it is also the most profitable. However, Huawei’s development momentum of view, Ericsson, Huawei, from the scale may be just around the corner beyond. Huawei’s growth in recent years has been higher than Ericsson, Huawei’s sales revenue to continue to make close to Ericsson: Huawei’s 2004 sales of 3.827 billion U.S. dollars, Ericsson of SEK 132 billion (according to calculation by the end of 2008 the exchange rate of about 17.16 billion U.S. dollars ), to 2008, Huawei’s sales revenue of 18.33 billion U.S. dollars, Ericsson revenues of 208.9 billion Swedish kronor (about 27.16 billion U.S. dollars). If both sides at the current rate of growth, Huawei will be able to take two years and then the income scale than Ericsson.
Of course, Ericsson will not wait to catch up with Huawei, Ericsson and Huawei’s “tug of war” will become more intense. Ericsson has recently completed a 1.13 billion acquisition of Canada’s Nortel Networks has been an insolvent company’s assets, CDMA and LTE transactions, and further strengthen its market leading position. Huawei put the next-generation LTE mobile networks as a strategic focus, to Ericsson to launch an offensive. Huawei beat Ericsson has recently won the building in Norway, the fourth generation mobile network contract to Ericsson and Nokia Siemens to replace the old building of networks. The deal is so far the largest European market, LTE transactions.

Although the distance closer, but transcends it was not easy. The layout from a business point of view, a broader line of business of Huawei, which is conducive to seize more market opportunities, big scale of business. Such as Huawei and ZTE are three 3G standard, “takes all” vendors, in the snatch the Chinese 3G market, Huawei, Ericsson, more than a single WCDMA standard, Alcatel-Lucent is emphasis on CDMA, earlier withdrew from CDMA market, Nokia Siemens Networks, advantages – This is in a catch-up phase of Huawei is also very practical choice. But it also shows the gap between Huawei and Ericsson – not enough focus on business, specializing in business less prominent. Such as Ericsson in the higher-margin business and multimedia telecommunications services occupy the dominant position, which is Huawei’s need to make up the short board.

Moreover, compared to the 133-year history of the century-old Ericsson, Huawei in the management, brand and cultural heritage of comprehensive strength, and there is not a small gap. For example, from the staff and the per capita efficiency of view, only a 22-year history of the development of Huawei, number of employees nearly 9 million people, has more than 7.8 million people, Ericsson, Huawei, in 2008 the per capita productivity of 21 million / person less than the Ericsson’s 35 million / person. If Huawei Dengfeng mainly depend on products previously cost-effective and rapid implementation of the capacity invincible, then now, with Huawei Technologies and Ericsson to face more and more like the “peak” enterprise contest, from management, brand, and cultural dimensions, ” soft power “role was even more pronounced.

However, insiders view of Huawei, Ericsson, “sight”, Ericsson, Huawei is not difficult to achieve beyond the goal. Huawei’s ongoing financial restructuring, and so the internal management of change, precisely in order to “soft power” of the world-class companies such as Ericsson, par. If we say that beyond the short-term objectives Ericsson, Huawei, then catch up with Cisco’s long-term goal is to Huawei. Huawei within the end of 2007 “issued by the staff warned the book”, the proposed “annual income of 40 billion U.S. dollars” development goals – the equivalent of 40 billion U.S. dollars network communications giant Cisco’s current income scale.

At one time, Cisco from Huawei “very close” – Huawei to become a threat to Cisco, which is in January 2003 Cisco sued Huawei’s intellectual property rights infringement cases occurred in the context. At that time, Huawei was once called the “Chambers of the nightmare”; but now long out of Cisco’s Huawei to give the “nightmare”, jumped out of the profits to the traditional telecommunications equipment, successfully transition to high-margin territory. Cisco has across new areas of IT and telecommunications convergence, from a network equipment company is committed to turn out to consumers, service-oriented company. Cisco’s competitors are now no longer Huawei, but Microsoft, Google, Hewlett-Packard or IBM, and other new rivals. Huawei and Cisco’s business “intersection” fewer and fewer can be said that competition from Cisco and Huawei is not a level of – both from a business point of view or from the strength, such as Cisco’s 2008 fiscal year net profit of 8.1 billion U.S. dollars, net profit margin of more than 20%, while Huawei’s net profit was 11 billion U.S. dollars, net profit margin of only 6.1%.

General trend of convergence in the ICT, Cisco, Alcatel and other telecom equipment giants are already turned to look at industry, enterprise networking market; At the same time, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and other IT companies are to penetrate the telecommunications industry, and now it is based on HP’s acquisition of 3COM background. Two years ago, Huawei, Bain Capital tried to join forces with the U.S. 2.2 billion joint acquisition of 3Com Corporation, but in the end, because of U.S. concerns about national security and abortion. If the acquisition time, Huawei 3COM, Cisco may be able to narrow the distance, but unfortunately, the last 3COM received by IT giant Hewlett-Packard pocket. Huawei’s business focus is now also focused on the telecommunications line, enterprise networks business is very small. ICT integration in the path of development, the growing gap between Huawei and Cisco’s large, Huawei will be to recover Cisco, Lu still far too long.

Hewlett-Packard was informed this morning by 27 billion acquisition of 3Com, and Hewlett-Packard reported that compete with Cisco, I have different views, I think that HP’s acquisition of 3Com is still not Cisco’s opponent, for four reasons:

1, from the scale, even if HP’s acquisition of an annual turnover of 1.29 billion U.S. dollars of the 3Com Corporation, network products revenue is still less than 40 billion U.S. dollars, while the Cisco 2008 turnover of 39.5 billion U.S. dollars, profits of 8 billion U.S. dollars, the size of HP’s networking division 10 times, from an order of magnitude scale is not to compete;
2, from the product line, even though Cisco’s product line in the telecommunications, telecommunications industry is extremely strong, it seems that in the switch, network management and other mid-range products have to compete with 3Com’s posture, but at the high end HP, Cisco Systems Canada 3C0m out of reach products in the consumer low-end Cisco acquired three years ago, Links, extended to the consumer market, this year launched high-definition video camera, Hewlett-Packard 3Com networking products to the consumer market right now is a blank, one high and one low pincer attack Cisco’s two-way Hewlett-Packard;
3, from the Chinese market, the Cisco into China since 1994 has been accompanied by China’s Internet market ups and downs, ups and downs, did not fall, despite the HP brand, reputation and good, but HP’s networking products as early as 13 years ago, in China has disappeared into hiding, only started in May this year, re-development of the network agent, a bit middle of the night to think of songs to sing. After the acquisition of 3Com Hewlett-Packard, 3Com channel to HP’s networking products in China is absolutely beneficial to repeat, but also because the world’s total market size, product line also mentioned the following brands, not Cisco Systems in the Chinese market, the channel has the absolute position of change;
4, Cisco Systems, Inc. is a network brand, Hewlett-Packard printers in the past is the brand, it is PC brand, Cisco how much more difficult to push server products, HP will have little difficulty in pushing network products.
    From the above conclusion is that HP’s network of four products in the world, in China are not rivals Cisco’s arguments certainly do people still insist that a Cisco rival Hewlett-Packard, it is just perception, non-rational, tolerant 1:00 said: It is a small small, local competition. However, three additional conclusions can be drawn:

1, Hewlett-Packard into a full-line cases of hardware products as its core consulting services provider,
2, IBM has become a full range of middleware products to its core consulting services provider,
3, there is no guarantee Cisco will not develop into a full range of products as the core network of advisory services for the provider.

Cisco said that the upcoming local time Monday in the United States ended the bid deadline will be extended to 18 days, the agreement to the terms and conditions remain unchanged. In the announcement to extend the deadline, the Cisco spokeswoman said the company that the offer is fair. Last week, Cisco CEO John Chambers said, Cisco can complete agreement, but also mentioned that the acquisition might give up, saying that “the lack of agreement must be completed.”

However, analysts do not believe that Cisco will abandon the acquisition because the company has been advocating the online video conferencing is an important growth area. Some analysts expect Cisco’s bid may be increased to 160-170 NOK / share. The date of TANDBERG shares rose 0.53 percent to 151.80 kroner / Unit, Cisco shares fell 0.25 to 23.76 U.S. dollars / share.

Nordea analyst Andrea Road Gustafson (Andre Adolfsen) opinion that the extended offer period is expected in the matter, because Cisco has not been shareholder support needed for TANDBERG. Cisco on the condition of TANDBERG’s bid is 90% of the shares is willing to sell. Adolfson, said Cisco has 10 days to persuade the reluctant to sell to these shareholders.

Cisco has not disclosed before the close of the deadline, the number of shares has to sell, but the Norwegian sector, a spokesman for Carnegie Cisco said it would disclose this information in local time Tuesday. Cisco extended the deadline up to 10 weeks or until mid-December.