Enterprise BYOD heroes; Cisco data center woes; Cool cars meet cool Icelandic data centers

CablingTweets' Top 5 Cabling Industry Tweets for October 11, 2012:

Heads up IT security managers(1)! You can look like a hero if you lead your organization's charge to establish enterprise BYOD policies -- despite any physical infrastructure challenges you may encounter.

If the prospect of this leaves you "searching" for answers, you know where to turn (2).

To that end, did you know (3) that "Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth? But at the same time, they’re buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world’s largest networking vendors?" So writes Wired's Cade Metz in a recent exclusive article.

Related news: HP's enterprise services business tumbles

Moving from "discussion" to "call-to-action", how about...Smart Cities (4)! As addressed by Cisco -- who given the claim just made above, you can maybe see feeling impelled to make just that sort of move. (Come to think of it, Cisco's been boogieing quite a bit these days in the big-time data center space -- see the company's recent fast breakaway from Huawei-ZTE for selling critical facilities equipment to Iran.)

Cooler heads prevail elsewhere in the industry -- for instance, as in Iceland's modular data center space (5). It begs the question, which is cooler -- the cars or the facilities?

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-- Matt Vincent, Senior Editor