9:00 AM -- I'll tell you this much: I'm glad I'm not the one who has to answer for the NTT East Corp. outage that's now being pinned on Cisco. Details here.

A social life
Chief development officer Charles Giancarlo told a Thomson Reuters conference that Cisco does have plans for social networking, just not in a MySpace kind of way. To see what he means, click here.

Keeping score
Giancarlo also said the acquisition "temperature" feels about the same as last year. There's some minor analysis here.

Coming attractions
If none of that floats your boat, how about fabric-based encryption for storage? Catch Cisco's plan here.

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