Catalyst for change: InfoWorld Test Center Analyst and networking guru Paul Venezia reports on some of the newest additions to the Cisco's ever-growing family of Catalyst switches. The new hardware, as well as software upgrades, was announced just today, and they demonstrate that Cisco indeed still has some enterprise tricks up its sleeve to fend off lower-price competition from rivals like Dell. Ready or not .. Catalyst for change: InfoWorld Test Center Analyst and networking guru Paul Venezia reports on some of the newest additions to the Cisco’s ever-growing family of Catalyst switches. The new hardware, as well as software upgrades, was announced just today, and they demonstrate that Cisco indeed still has some enterprise tricks up its sleeve to fend off lower-price competition from rivals like Dell.Ready or not …: Unless you’ve been harboring yourself in an undisclosed location the past few years, you know what Vista is, and you know that’s it’s really and truly here. And if you’re an admin especially, you’ve got to deal with it. Let Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist continues to help, as he details a couple of Vista features that warrant some close attention: insta-OS upgrading, and deep searching.Sun still shines on AMD: Reports of AMD’s death have been greatly exaggerated, according to InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager. Yes, there have been reports that Sun has started buying chips from Intel, but Tom points out, “AMD will continue to supply Sun Microsystems with enterprise-grade x86 server CPUs. Sun found in Intel a cheap second source of supply for x86 microprocessors.” Technology Industry