Network World back issues from November 2000:
On the firing line.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... There's no denying it. The shine has definitely worn off that hotshot network administrator you hired last year. You've given him plenty of opportunities to clean up his act, but he's still not meeting your expectations. It's time to give him the boot, but just contemplating the ...
Keep Those Webplates Spinnings; Performance monitoring platforms that can keep your site in balance.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Anyone managing a Web or e-commerce site can sympathize with the juggler whose stage act consists of balancing a variety of spinning plates on poles. Like that classic performer, the Web site administrator must keep a variety of systems in balance while the whole world is watching. Just ...
Making Your Website Healthy; Building your Web site was easy - keeping it running is the next step.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... In the olden days (circa 1995), having a company Web site was simple. Slap together a few pages of HTML that listed where your company was located and a phone number, and you were all set. If the site went down, someone visiting the site would tell you, and you'd fix it. Those ...
Wireless IP video will take time; Wireless video could be used for mobile videoconferencing and to remotely monitor surveillance equipment.(Technology Information)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Science fiction movies are full of scenes with characters looking at crystal-clear interactive video on a laptop screen or even a cell phone while driving an automobile. While these scenes may be a common occurrence on the big screen, it's a near impossibility today. When and if ...
Successful directory projects require dedicated owners.(Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
Nov 06, 2000; ... How many directory geeks does it take to change a light bulb? First, you have to form a cross-functional team to inventory how many light bulbs are in use across the company. Next, you must form a schema committee to name the light bulbs. You must also map the flow of each light bulb back ...
The ABCs of corporate naming conventions.(Humor)(Column)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Corporate naming has gotten out of hand. Ad and branding agencies are taking advantage of the English language while teachers everywhere shudder. The next thing you know children in spelling bees across the nation will be affected. Companies are intentionally misspelling their names, which ...
The line on Linux.(Letter to the Editor)
Nov 06, 2000; ... I'd like to offer some practical advice regarding controlling Linux on corporate networks ("Linux: Renegade or ally?" www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 1543): What organizations should be doing is finding out why users feel the need to add Linux. It's a good bet they don't set up the ...
Tuesday may mark the last time we.(Column)
Nov 06, 2000; ... have to put on socks and shoes to vote for a president. Let's hope that's not the case, but given the extent to which Internet vote-buying and vote-swapping schemes have sprung up this election cycle, there's reason to fret about the advent of full-fledged browser-based ...
Virtual routers open up new services.(Technology Information)
Nov 06, 2000; ... New developments in equipment used to build backbone IP networks, especially the emergence of virtual backbone routing, are setting the stage for a complete shift in the distribution of Internet services. Virtual routers will enable new Internet services that are isolated from ...
Wall Street provides no help to the telecom industry.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... L Last year I walked into an AT&T investor relations meeting in New York and was amazed to find hundreds of Wall Street analysts, each responsible for covering part or all of AT&T. Why are so many analysts needed to make buy and sell recommendations on this one ...
carrier briefs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Genuity is expanding its Black Rocket network service offering with partners Ariba and Lante. Genuity is offering Ariba Marketplace e-commerce software to small and midsize companies in conjunction with its dedicated Internet access, Web hosting and security services. Customers can also ...
The middle of a revolution.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... T The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council is in the process of releasing its latest report on the present and future of data networking. This new volume, the fourth in a series, finally admits that the Internet is both the present and ...
Enterprise Applications Briefs.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Tangram Enterprise Solutions recently announced enhancements to its Asset Insight software, which tracks the hardware and software configuration, location and ownership information of desktops and servers. For example, Asset Insight gives customers a full inventory of the software packages ...
inf briefs.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... CNT launched a consulting service last week that would integrate products from multiple vendors into an enterprisewide storage-area network (SAN). The company's SAN Services specialize in the interoperability of routers, switches and telecommunications over WANs. CNT will work with any ...
Entuity offers network management help.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Entuity last week announced its Proaction 2001 educational program encouraging customers to prepare for network management struggles they may face in the next year. As part of this initiative, the company gathered predictions from eight analyst firms including Network Strategy ...
MyCIO.com, Securant bolster resource security.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... The hosted application security service MyCIO.com has begun offering its first PC-based firewall that can be downloaded directly from the MyCIO.com Web site. The service, called PC Firewall AsaP, offers systems administrators an alternative to shipping software CDs out to ...
Veritas strengthens serverless backup.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... ORLANDO - Veritas bolstered its data recovery software last week with the addition of several data back-up options that promise to alleviate storage bottlenecks on the network and make data more readily available to users. The company announced NetBackup 4.0V, which supports ...
Appian gives network views with AppianVista.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Appian Communications this week will show off its new service-management software, AppianVista, at Next Generation Networks, demonstrating its ability to give customers the power to the manage services supported by Appian's optical services activation platform. The software ...
.Dir coming to a domain near you.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... A few weeks ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed the period for requesting new global top level domains (gTLD). ICANN was hoping to add to the current gTLDs of .com, .edu, .org, . net, .gov, and .mil. It's still not known how many (or even if any) new ...
Microsoft to test software as service.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Microsoft Corp. is sending up a trial balloon in its move to make its applications software more of a service. Next month, the international chain of easyEverything Internet cafes will begin hosting Office 2000, Works 2001 and Encarta 2001 for a rental fee of approximately $2 ...
ConfigSafe update offers precise data recovery.(ConfigSafe Complete Recovery 4.0)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... All Windows users know the drill. You've just installed a new software package or added new hardware and the required drivers, and suddenly Windows doesn't work right anymore. If you're conscientious about making backups, you can restore your PC to where it was the last time you ...
Instant Folders offers instant swapping.(Punch Networks' service)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Sharing documents online is about to get easier, no matter what kind of documents you need to share. Instant Folders, an online file service recently launched by Punch Networks, allows the easy trade of everything from complex corporate documents to Little League schedules. ...
The changing of ICANN's guard.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Venture capitalist and cyberguru Esther Dyson and four other directors will step down from the board of directors of the controversial Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers after the nonprofit group's next meeting, ICANN announced late last week. The changing of ...
Italians revolt against Microsoft supremacy.(Government Activity)
Nov 06, 2000; ... The Italian state administration is excessively dependent on Microsoft's software and the country could achieve significant budget savings if it switched to open source software, according to an open letter which a group of information technology professionals is preparing to deliver to ...
Intel takes the axe to PC chip prices.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Intel has slashed prices on its desktop Pentium III and Celeron processors by as much as one third, as the giant chip maker prepares to launch its new, high-end Pentium 4 processor in the coming weeks. Effective Sunday, Intel's 1 GHz Pentium III processor is priced at $465, a drop of ...
Global Crossing sees future fiber line problems.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... International Internet capacity will hit a bottleneck in as little as 2 years, said Bill Carter, president of telecom backbone operator Global Crossing, during a keynote address to the Asia Pacific Conference on E-Commerce Monday. The root of the problem is technical, Carter said. On ...
AOL 6.0 wreaks havoc with some PCs.(Product Information)
Nov 06, 2000; ... AOL 5.0 was an unmitigated disaster for the online giant. Soon after its release, users began complaining about network settings getting blow away, key Windows files being rewritten, and in some cases, PCs becoming utterly inoperable. Some of the exact same problems are ...
L&H launches suite of voice portal products.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Belgian speech technology firm Lernout & Hauspie NV has struck an alliance with U.S. group SimplySay, to use the company's technology in a range of applications that will allow users to access information on the Internet vocally, in multiple languages, using a phone. The strategic ...
A NEW WAY TO MANAGE EXCHANGE; CONCORD SOFTWARE MONITORS E-MAIL PERFORMANCE, UTILIZATION.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... MARLBOROUGH, MASS. - Microsoft's Exchange Server customers looking for management reporting features they don't get out of the box from Microsoft, may want to examine a new offering from Concord Communications. Concord is not the first company to roll out management software ...
Intraco Systems touts IP telephony services; Hosted services extend enterprise-type capabilities to branch offices, smaller businesses.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Intraco Systems is offering a pair of IP telephony services designed to help branch offices and midsize companies operate more like large corporations. Intraco Systems X-Site Operator and X-Site Total Office are two hosted business phone services that can provide branch offices ...
Vendors ready new optical network gear; Aura, VIPswitch target Ethernet access, metro apps; Luxcore to bring packet switching to optical core.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS. - Three companies plan to deliver the latest entries into an exploding market for optical network gear in access, metropolitan and core networks. VIPswitch last week unveiled a high-density optical metropolitan-area network (MAN) switch for provisioning ...
Inovie develops project mgmt. package.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... novie Software this month will deliver an enhanced version of its Web-based project management software, which has attracted such blue chip customers as Global Crossing, Lucent, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and KPMG Consulting. Inovie's TeamCenter is server software that lets ...
Microsoft seeks to keeps rivals out of appeals process.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Microsoft Corp. on Monday filed a request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking that its competitors not be allowed to file friend-of-the-court briefs in the appeal of the June decision to split the company in two. All friend-of-the-court, or amicus ...
Walmart.com site back online after 28-day overhaul.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... With less than two months to go before Christmas, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s e-commerce affiliate on Tuesday reopened its Web site after a 28-day closure during which the site was given a complete makeover. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Walmart.com Inc., which is jointly owned by ...
Security company builds defense against PDA attack.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Security software company Finjan Software Tuesday announced the release of an application to protect computer systems from attacks launched from PDAs.Finjan's SurfinShield Corporate monitors the behavior of executable programs synchronized from Palm Pilots to corporate PCs, ...
Record company drops suit, forms alliance with Napster.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Once enemies, Bertelsmann AG BMG and Napster will now form an alliance to develop a peer-to-peer file sharing service, the German company announced Tuesday.Bertelsmann AG's newly formed eCommerce Group, BeCG, and Napster have developed a membership-based service that will ...
Upgraded e-mail eradication software released.(from Disappearing)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... SAN FRANCISCO - With an eye toward attracting more corporate customers, Disappearing, Inc. has issued a new edition of its software, which lets Microsoft Outlook e-mail senders define expiration dates for their messages. The company's software, which the firm markets as a tool for ...
IBM beefs up appliance server family.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... BM is aiming to give users a simpler way to beef up their e-commerce and data centers with appliance servers designed to handle Web hosting and storage, and run Lotus Domino applications. IBM last week announced five IBM eServer appliances that observers say are aimed at data ...
Compaq enhances Tru64, TruCluster Unix systems.
Nov 06, 2000; ... Compaq enhances Tru64, TruCluster Unix systems By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service, 10/31/00 Compaq on Tuesday released enhanced products and new services for businesses that use Unix servers. Enhancements to Tru64 Unix and TruCluster Server ...
Motorola helps Java developers target phones.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Motorola helps Java developers target phones James Evans Motorola is seeking to give a boost to developers creating Java applications for Internet-enabled phones and other portable devices by starting a new developer support program. The program announced Tuesday will ...
Gateway settles pricing dispute with U.S. government.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Gateway settles pricing dispute with U.S. government Ashlee Vance Gateway has agreed to pay the U.S. government $9 million to settle charges that it overcharged the government for computer systems over a three-year period in the mid-1990s. The U.S ....
DSL outlook rosy.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... DSL outlook rosy By Michael Martin A study released last week by Cahners In-Stat Group forecasts good times ahead for DSL providers. Among the study's findings are: the number of new DSL subscribers will top 23 million worldwide by 2004; ADSL will be the ...
C&W continues international push; Cable & Wireless division plans $1.4 billion investment in Japan.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... able & Wireless is investing $1.4 billion to upgrade its network in Japan, which is part of the service provider's overall global IP expansion. The London service provider has invested more than $6 billion to expand its IP networks in the U.S., Europe and Asia during the past 18 ...
UNIFYING IP CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT FOR ISPS; START-UP GOLD WIRE TECHNOLOGY PROMOTES TOOL FOR POLICY-BASED UPGRADES OF CISCO, JUNIPER GEAR.(Formulator)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... WALTHAM, MASS. - Many users think ordering a VPN or application service with dial-up Internet access from a traditional ISP is a little like ordering sausage in a restaurant: You'd like the new service to be top-notch, but you'd rather not see how it's made. Officials with ...
COSINE BETS ON FRAME RELAY WITH IP SERVICE SWITCH.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. - IP service delivery vendor CoSine Communications is taking on two key rivals recently purchased by Nortel Networks and Lucent by building frame relay interfaces into its flagship IPSX 9000 service switch. CoSine is betting that service providers testing ...
Quarry promises encryption, QoS at gigabit speed.(Quarry Technologies iQ8000 IP Service Edge Switch)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... BURLINGTON, MASS. - Quarry Technologies says its service switch will not only classify traffic at gigabit speed, it will decrypt and encrypt the traffic as well. Quarry's iQ8000 IP Service Edge Switch, announced in May, was originally designed to parse IP traffic as it flows ...
Vina to buy Woodwind.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... In a deal combining two integrated-access device vendors, Vina Technologies Tuesday announced it plans to buy Woodwind Communications Systems. The deal brings Vina voice-over-IP expertise and enables it to drop an agreement that had it reselling another vendor's gear under the ...
Company looks to jumpstart Linux app development.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Hoping to accelerate the development of Linux applications for corporate users, JYACC Tuesday announced it was making available the source code for its Panther Open Source Software for Linux (POSSL) to the open source community. Officials of the New York-based company believe ...
WorldCom restructures around business data services.(Company Operations)
Nov 06, 2000; ... In a move that bears similarities to the restructuring announced by AT&T last week, WorldCom on Wednesday announced that it will separate its core business data services from its consumer services, and issue publicly-traded tracking stocks for each. The Clinton, Miss.-based ...
Citigroup launches new e-cash service.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... The 800-pound gorilla has finally jumped into the online payments marketplace. Well, two 800-pound gorillas holding hands. Up to now, X.com Corp.'s PayPal service has been the leading way for people to send money to one another via e-mail. It's a useful service for online ...
PurpleYogi readies Web personalization software.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... PurpleYogi, of Mountain View, Calif., develops software for managing and personalizing unstructured information on the Web. It is beta testing the software at 10 high-volume portals and online publishers, according to Rakesh Mathur, founder and CEO of the company. The names of the portals ...
Sybase taps thought to beef up its Web apps.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Aiming to speed up performance of its e-commerce server, Sybase Tuesday announced it would integrate Thought's Cocoware Enterprise object-to-relational mapping software into its EAServer.Cocoware will reside on the backend of EAServer as middleware and help automatically generate ...
Intel, Vasco team on security.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Intel Tuesday announced that it has forged a long-term alliance with Vasco Data Security International to bolster security services on its Shiva Access Manager application. Intel will partner with security specialist Vasco in order to combine some of the vendors' security offerings ....
Mobile subscribers to reach 1.8 billion by 2005.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000; ... The number of subscribers to mobile phone services worldwide will reach 1.8 billion by 2005, up from 480 million in 1999, according to a study released Wednesday by Web-Feet Research.Representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.6%, the increase in subscribers will happen ...
Ask Dr. Intranet.
Nov 06, 2000; ... Our Web-based e-commerce site is Common Gateway Interface-intensive (we use Visual Basic and a Web server with OLE and ActiveX). We want to create a CD to let people run the Web site from the CD. Our problem is that the Web server runs CGI. Is there a CGI server that would run the scripts ...
Microsoft adds Web-based applications to bCentral.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Microsoft Wednesday said it is expanding its bCentral Web-based service for small-businesses by adding three new subscription-based applications that will be launched this month.The first of the new services, named bCentral Commerce Manager and set to go online in early November, ...
VoIP vendors: It's time to test interoperability.
Nov 06, 2000; ... Voice over IP works. But do voice-over-IP products work together? Consider this an open challenge to vendors that make voice-over-IP products. Stand up and be counted among those that can interoperate with complementary and competing products. Convergence products are of limited ...
Intel boosts VPN speed with SafeNet card.(Intel NetStructure 3130 uses SafeNet PCI)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Intel will speed up encryption in its new NetStructure 3130 VPN Gateway with help from some SafeNet hardware. The NetStructure 3130 is a VPN tunnel server that can handle up to 95M bit/sec of throughput and 10,000 simultaneous tunnels. The modular chassis has slots to add cards ...
WorldCom splits in two.(Company Operations)
Nov 06, 2000; ... A somber Bernard Ebbers, WorldCom's president and CEO, Wednesday morning announced that WorldCom is splitting off its consumer business, renaming it MCI, and issuing a separate tracking stock. "We've disappointed shareholders," Ebbers says. "I've disappointed myself." After ...
IBM claims wireless domain with SWAP.(IBM Superior Wireless Applications)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... IBM Wednesday unveiled what it calls a breakthrough server-software technology that allows users to manage their Internet-based commercial operations while on the road.IBM named the software SWAP - Superior Wireless Applications. When installed on a server, SWAP unlocks ...
edge briefs.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 06, 2000 ... In a deal combining integrated access device (IAD) vendors, Vina Technologies last week said it plans to buy Woodwind Communications Systems for $45 million in stock. The deal brings Vina voice-over-IP capability and lets it drop an earlier agreement with Polycom to sell an integrated ...
IBM cancels Crusoe laptop.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... With minimal comment, IBM Tuesday canceled the release of a Transmeta-powered laptop. IBM had planned to use Transmeta's low-energy Crusoe microprocessor chips in its ThinkPad 240 laptop personal computers, and had even demonstrated a Crusoe laptop at the PC Expo trade show in New ...
Nokia updates mobile software, teams with Andersen.(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Nokia Wednesday updated its line of Wireless Application Protocol server software and launched a new partnership with Andersen Consulting with the hopes of furthering the applications' adoption by a broader range of e-commerce customers.Nokia said its Activ Software Suite is the ...
news briefs.(Industry Trend or Event)(News Briefs)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Covad CEO Knowling calls it quits Robert Knowling resigned as chairman, CEO and president of DSL provider Covad Communications last week. Knowling's resignation came on the heels of a third-quarter earnings report that was not received well by investors. Frank Marshall, a Covad ...
Big Blue to roll out 'Storage Tank'.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Big Blue to roll out 'Storage Tank' By Dan Neel Infoworld Promising to deliver what company officials are calling "true data sharing," IBM early next year will deliver its Storage Tank, the code name for a suite of storage virtualization software and ...