Cisco Podcast Offers MP3 Downloads Covering Routers Switches and Data Center Issues

I'm always looking for new podcasts to stuff on my iPod Nano for when I'm trudging through something tedious and want to distract myself. Here is the feed for Cisco's podcast which includes the following:

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Cisco Data Center Podcast Feed Contains The Following Audio Files

Network Accelerated Serverless Backup (Published - Thu, 16 Feb 2006)
Topics Covered:

1. Understanding Backup/Recovery, Replication, Protection, & Archival


2. Evolution of Backup technologies


3. Cisco technology development in accelerating backup.


4. Experience of Cisco IT in evaluating network accelerated serverless backup.

Further Info:
Read the solutions brief on Network Accelerated Serverless Backup at: http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns515/c643/cdccont_0900aecd80332bfa.pdf
Read the lab test report on NASB at: http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns515/c654/cdccont_0900aecd803e9d79.pdf

(10.8 MB - 23:45 Duration)

Impact of Infrastructure on Service Oriented Architectures (Published - Thu, 12 Jan 2006)

Topics Covered:

1. Understanding SOA, On-Demand Computing, & Real-Time Infrastructure


2. Experience of Cisco IT in evolving to a Service Oriented Infrastructure


3. Experience of Cisco IT in evolving applications to a Service Oriented Architecture.


4. What is the role of the network and what is the Service Oriented Network Architecture?


5. Experience of Cisco IT in adopting service orientation in the network.

Further Info:
Read more about the Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture at www.cisco.com/go/sona

(19.7 MB - 28:49 Duration)

Centralizing Branch Servers into the Data Center (Published - Thu, 15 Dec 2005)

Topics Covered:

1. Why servers were deployed in the branch


2. Understanding application performance and latency


3. Cisco technology development in improving application delivery


4. Experiences at two U.S. Fortune 500 companies.

Further Info:
Read more about branch server centralization at www.cisco.com/go/applicationservices

(29.3 MB - 32:03 Duration)

Data Center Facilities (Published - Thu, 1 Dec 2005)

Topics Covered:

1. Why are data center facilities top of mind now?


2. Understanding what facilities go into a data center


3. Standards bodies


4. New technologies in the facilities space


5. Experiences and lessons learned after Cisco builds and supports its own global data centers.

Further Info:
Cisco Press book, "Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business," by Doug Alger. White Paper, "Facilities Considerations for the Data Center," available at www.cisco.com/go/datacenter