Network World back issues from February 2007:
Battle of the ages; How CIOs can avoid generational clashes among their IT staff.(Rusty Bruns and Buddy Gray speak about the generation gap between IT professionals and how CIOS can manage that)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Sandra Gittlen Charleston Southern University CIO Rusty Bruns has a secret weapon to handle needy users -- Buddy Gray, a 63-year-old network manager. "His customer service is impeccable. He has the patience and knowledge to sit with a user until ...
NAC insight from Vernier Networks' CEO; * Why certain businesses are buying into NAC quickly.(network access control, Simon Khalaf)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Tim Greene Here is some insight from the CEO of one of the NAC appliance vendors, about who is buying NAC gear and what they go through before they shell out cash for it. The businesses that are buying quickly fall into specific categories, the ...
Get to the root of application performance issues; * What causes application sensitivity? Gartner analyst Bjarne Munch explains.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Ann Bednarz There are a wide range of tools available for boosting application performance over the WAN, but it's not easy to figure out which ones are appropriate for each enterprise. A key step is to understand how applications are architected and ...
Kasperskys on cybercrime: Don't blame the Russian mafia and why we need anti-anti-anti virus software; Chinese hackers are the big threat, say Russian security experts.(Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky )(Interview)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Neal Weinberg Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo ...
Cisco warns of SIP handling flaw in IOS devices; * Patches from Debian, OpenPKG, Gentoo* Virus located in TomTom GPS systems* How Schwab shuts out hackers, and other interesting reading.(Charles Schwab & Company Inc. will be responsible for any security ramifications)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jason Meserve Editor's Note: I am attending DEMO 2007 this week in Palm Desert, Calif. 68 companies are here demonstrating their wares. Check out all of Network World's coverage here. Today's bug patches and security alerts: Cisco warns ...
Verizon Wireless turns up Rev. A.(Evolution Data Optimized Revision A technology)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jim Duffy Verizon Wireless this week said it is launching its next-generation high-speed wireless broadband network in select cities throughout the country. The carrier is turning up Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology ...
CIRT management: Learning from emergencies; * The postmortem.(computer incident response team)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: M. E. Kabay This is another in an occasional series of articles looking at computer incident response team (CIRT) management. One of the most important principles of management in general and operations management in particular is that fixing a problem ...
Cool products from DEMO.(Seagate Technology L.L.C. introduced Digital Audio Video Experience equipment)(Zink introduced digital printing systems)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Here are some cool products that launched last week at DEMO 2007 (produced by Network World's events team): For complete coverage go to DEMO 07 HQ Seagate's DAVEa(Digital Audio Video Experience) device is a flat palm-sized storage drive that offers an additional 10GB ...
Blackboard pledges no action against open source courseware; Higher education groups remain concerned about Blackboard's current U.S. patent and enforcement plans.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: John Cox,aJohn Cox In a deal worked out with higher education groups, electronic courseware vendor Blackboard this week promised not to enforce its controversial patents against open source and homegrown software systems. The pledge is intended to ...
Microsoft partners on SSL VPN software; Celestix Networks, Network Engines are making SSL appliances.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Greene Microsoft is announcing that SSL VPN appliances based on technology it acquired last year when it bought Whale Communications are available through two Microsoft partners. Microsoft calls the devices Intelligent Application Gateway 2007. ...
Kicking virtualization up a notch.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Of all of the technology trends that have been important in the world of enterprise IT, there's one that stands out as the 800-pound gorilla - the pink elephant if you will - of the last few years: virtualization. Virtualization has brought us new ways of doing things ...
Internet Telephony update; * AstriCon and more good news.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: James E. Gaskin How prevalent is Internet Telephony now? You may have it and not even know it. A customer I visited last fall had a phone system installed by an independent exchange carrier at full telephone company rates. But the phone lines connected to the ...
Energy-efficient Ethernet takes the next step; * IEEE forms study group for Energy Efficient Ethernet.(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jeff Caruso The IEEE has decided to go ahead and form a study group to look into the possibility of standards pertaining to Energy Efficient Ethernet. Regular readers will recall I wrote about the call for interest in Energy Efficient Ethernet in ...
DEMO 07: Alcatel-Lucent to manage laptops; Evros Project enables always-on endpoint management of mobile laptops.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: John Cox For complete coverage, go to DEMO 07 HQ A project unveiled this week at DEMO 07 by Alcatel-Lucent will let enterprise network administrators reach out and touch corporate laptops anytime, anywhere. The Evros Project has two ...
Don't be alarmed by IPv6's declining numbers.(internet telephony)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Before a tsunami hits shore the sea recedes abruptly and there is a deceiving period of calm before the waves arrive. Given IPv6 address allocation trends, perhaps the analogy applies to the deployment of IPv6. 2006 was a year of progress for IPv6. The 2005 U.S ....
SWsoft and Parallels offer virtual choice; * SWsoft and Parallels clarify their different approaches to virtualization.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jennifer Mears When it comes to x86 server virtualization, VMware, of course, seems to get all the attention. Of late, there has been more written about the open source Xen hypervisor (and XenSource, the corporation formed to support it), Virtual Iron and ...
Google revenue climbs 67 percent; Site traffic increases while Google limits ads per search.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Brodkin Google Wednesday reported revenue of $3.21 billion in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2006, an increase of 67% over the same period in 2005. Google officials said they have been able to increase revenue while showing fewer advertisements per search. ...
The tale of a beach, dial-up, and port 25 blocking; * All cable services are not created equal.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Steve Taylor,aJim Metzler Over the past year or so, we've addressed the issue of the SOHO market, cable and DSL services, and SMTP port 25 blocking (for sending e-mail) to servers other than those provided by the ISP. In particular, Steve made a move from ...
Fiberlink adds zero-day threat protection service; Security add-on offers a cost-effective way to keep mobile users' laptops safe, Fiberlink says.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Fiberlink Communications announced Thursday that it's teaming with Sana Security to offer customers zero-day threat protection. Sana's Primary Response SafeConnect software uses multi-behavioral analysis to detect and then notify customers of ...
RSA: Mirapoint puts e-mail security appliance on a blade; Spam, virus protection slated for IBM's BladeCenter.
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cara Garretson E-mail vendor Mirapoint on Monday announced plans to release a version of its RazorGate e-mail security appliance that slides into IBM's BladeCenter. Slated for availability during the second half of the year, RazorGate on IBM's ...
Cisco, Canadian cable provider test 100Mbps service.(Videotron Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jim Duffy Videotron, a Canadian cable multisystem operator, said it can achieve Internet access speeds approaching 100Mbps using equipment from Cisco. Videotron claims this is the first time an ISP in North America has achieved these speeds, which ...
Venture capitalists reveal hot sectors.(investments in information technology sector)(Discussion)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Dix I recently hosted a panel discussion featuring leading Boston-area venture capitalists and the conversation ranged from hot investment sectors to the differences between East and West Coast venture capital firms. Staged by TIE Boston, a ...
A no-news day at Google News; Google site experiencing technical difficulties.(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Brodkin Having trouble getting your news today? Instead of the latest on global warming, Google News has been serving up a lot of server errors over the past hour and a half, beginning around 10 a.m. EST. Here at Network World, we keep getting ...
BT puts up $196 million for INS; U.K.-based carrier is looking to expand its presence in North America.(British Telecommunications PLC acquired International Network Services)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Denise Pappalardo BT Group announced Thursday its plans to acquire International Network Services, an IT consulting and professional services firm. "Coming on the heels of its BT's acquisition of Counterpane in 2006, the INS deal demonstrates BT's ...
Daylight saving time: What's up with those time servers?
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jennifer Mears While time servers keep networked devices synchronized, they don't recognize daylight saving shifts. As several experts noted in our recent "Daylight saving changes: No Y2K, but there could be headaches" story, a time server will do nothing to ...
Novell should better exploit GroupWise strengths; * Some observations from GWAVACon.
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Osterman Last week's visit to GWAVACon confirmed a couple of things for me. First, Novell has a large base of very loyal customers that remind me in many ways of Mac users - they tend to be quite vocal in support of their platforms and have an almost ...
Start-up aims to predict when to increase storage capacity; * Solving the storage capacity nightmare.(MonoSphere introduced Storage Horizon 3.0)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Deni Connor Planning the storage capacity you need is sometimes like a blind-folded partygoer pinning the tail on a donkey - it's a hit or miss proposition. Many storage administrators allocate storage capacity by application - if they have an ...
Sending e-mail to cell phones from Web forms.(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2007 ... We have some existing Web forms that generate e-mails when they are submitted to the server. How can we have these text messages sent to cell phones as well? Most cell phones can receive Short Message Service (SMS) messages through their carrier's gateway server. To ...
Kaspersky unveils antivirus product for mobile devices, security bundles for businesses; Anti-Virus Mobile software will work on Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.(Anti-Virus Mobile)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Byline: Tim Greene Kaspersky Lab next week will announce new software to protect smart phones from viruses, as well as new bundles of its security software to protect devices on business networks. The new Anti-Virus Mobile softwareawill apply the company's ...
Not using all of that GigE pipe? Save some energy; IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet looks at ways to throttle down connection speeds to save power.(gigabit ethernet)
Feb 02, 2007; ... Byline: Phil Hochmuth The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises. The trick: finding a way to seamlessly throttle between 10Mbps and 10Gbps. ...
Betting on the IT department; This casino team is ready for the Super Bowl.(Station Casinos Inc.)
Feb 02, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Brodkin Marshall Andrew has two big reasons to be nervous this weekend. The former Chicago resident's favorite football team will be vying for its first Super Bowl championship in two decades. But Andrew will scarcely have time to enjoy the ...
UPDATE: YouTube complies, removes Viacom content.
Feb 02, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Cooney Bad news for the YouTube set: Viacom today demanded that the popular video site remove all Viacom content from the site and Google, which bought YouTube last year,athis afternoon complied. Viacom includes BET, Famous Music, MTV ...
Inside the X-Force; On the front lines in the global war on cybercrime with the vulnerability threat team from ISS.(Internet Security Systems Inc.)
Feb 02, 2007 ... Byline: Deb Radcliff ATLANTA -- When the sensors feeding into Internet Security Systems' Global Threat Operations Center detected a new XML HTTP vulnerability early last November, attacks exploiting that vulnerability already were occurring across the Internet. ...
CA earnings reflect renewed stability; Company exceeds earnings expectations, shows solid bookings for the quarter.
Feb 02, 2007 ... Byline: Denise Dubie Software maker CA Thursday reported more than $1 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, giving the company and industry watchers cause for cautious optimism. Revenue rose 4 % in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, ended Dec. ...
Vendors make a splash without causing a scene.(DEMO 2007)
Feb 02, 2007; ... Byline: Paul McNamara Sixty-eight companies at Network World's DEMO 07 conference last week managed to bring attention to their new products and services without shutting down a single highway, bridge or river. Not a bomb-sniffing dog in sight. No one hauled off ...
Open source tool released for translating between Microsoft, ODF file formats; Open XML Translator is designed to transform documents between Open XML, which is the default format in Office 2007, and the Open Document Format.
Feb 02, 2007; ... Byline: John Fontana Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format. Open XML Translator 1.0 is available ...
Inside the X-Force.
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Cisco Gear Guide.
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Check Point delivers long-awaited appliance.(UTM-1 firewall software)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Check Point at the RSA Conference this week plans to release a line of enterprise appliances that match the prowess of its firewall software. The Check Point UTM-1 series impressed us in our exclusive Clear Choice Test with its integrated manageability and showed its ...
Management software or Magic 8-Ball? * What predictive analysis can do for network managers.(Product/service evaluation)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Denise Dubie A couple weeks back on an especially stressful Sunday in January, I picked up my Magic-8 Ball post half-time of one NFL Playoff game and desperately asked, "Will the Patriots make it to the Super Bowl?" It's cryptic answer: "Outlook not so good." ...
SailPoint sets forth Compliance IQ; * Automating compliance.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Dave Kearns Last issue I introduced the term "compliance management" to describe a relatively new niche in the market. It's also relatively small since, until last week, Aveksa was, perhaps, the only vendor securely in that niche. Today, though, there ...
RSA '07: McAfee enters data loss prevention space; New software protects leaks from the network and endpoints.(McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Cara Garretson McAfee on Monday announced its foray into the data loss protection market with software designed to guard sensitive information from unauthorized access and transfer at the network, desktop and notebook levels. Called the McAfee Data ...
Video over IP primer: Video compression; * How video over IP works.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Steve Taylor,aLarry Hettick We've used many newsletters to describe how VoIP works; this week, we'd like to review some basics on how video over IP works. As with voice, for video to be put into an IP packet it first must be converted into digital format and, ...
Centeris Likewise 2.0 helps Windows, Linux coexist.(internet server software)(Product/service evaluation)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Centeris Likewise 2.0 is a tool that changes Linux settings using an application that has a Windows look and feel rather than one comprising many disparate Linux command-line or console methods. In our Clear Choice Test, Likewise proved to be a seductive addition for ...
Online subtitling with dotSUB; * There is a growing demand for translating audio content into other languages.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Gibbs As much as the Internet has broken down barriers by making the distribution of content insanely easy one serious barrier remains: Language. Online machine translation of text has helped immensely (e.g. Google's Language Tools, and ...
Hidden nodes and Wi-Fi performance; * Finding hidden WLAN nodes.(wireless local area networks)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Joanie Wexler There are many aspects to managing unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum to avoid interference and optimize wireless LAN application performance. Interference can be caused by traffic butting up against other traffic in overlapping channels, another ...
How we tested Check Point firewall.(Check Point UTM-1 data security software)(Product/service evaluation)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Joel Snyder We tested the Check Point UTM-1 firewall in our lab network by putting it through a series of tests designed to reproduce what a security manager would do when managing firewall appliance installation, backups, restores, changing of IP addresses ...
Gates, Ellison to tout security at RSA.(Bill Gates, Larry Ellison)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Ellen Messmer The annual RSA Conference, expected to draw 15,000 security professionals and more than 325 vendors from around the world to San Francisco's Moscone Center exhibit hall, kicks off this week with keynotes from industry luminaries Bill Gates and ...
RSA Conference: Vendors bolster wireless and mobile security offerings; Network Chemistry updates scanning software; Yoggie safeguards laptops.(Network Chemistry enhancing RFprotect Scanner)(Yoggie Security Systems introducing Gatekeeper Pro )
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: John Cox Two vendors this week plan to unveil new or improved mobile security products for the enterprise, staging the news at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. Network Chemistry is updating its radio frequency scanning software and ...
Tagging, no longer fun and easy.(web site design)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Gibbs Most people think that tagging on the Web is pretty easy and fun. Give 'em a blog or a Web page and a field named "tags," and they'll start stuffing in text with wild abandon in the hopes that their content will be easily found by people who are ...
NAS: Roll your own or turnkey?(network attached storage)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Ron Nutter Periodically we have different "special" projects come up where additional storage would be handy to have. Somethimes we are doing mass upgrades of workstations as new ones arrive. Other times we are doing data recovery from a suspect hard ...
RSA `07: Avinti powers e-mail security appliance for enterprise use; Blocks zero-day threats by observing code behavior.(iSolation Server 3.0)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Cara Garretson Avinti on Monday will release Version 3.0 of its iSolation Server, an e-mail security appliance that the company has tuned for enterprise use. Available now, iSolation Server 3.0 can be used to scan inbound e-mail for hundreds of ...
RSA `07: ScanSafe scours Web search results; Upgraded service protects users from malicious, inappropriate sites.(SearchAhead)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Cara Garretson Internet security company ScanSafe on Monday announced a new feature for its Web Filtering hosted service that blocks employees from visiting malicious or inappropriate Web sites that are listed among results in a Web search. Called ...
Letters to the editor: Moving targets.(Letter to the editor)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Moving targets Regarding "Sprint supports GPS technology for tracking school buses": This is old hat -- obsolete technology. For about $1 per day, USFleetTracking has been providing a tracking service for quite some time to the masses. The system has been deployed ...
Successful application delivery; * The Handbook of Application Delivery.
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Steve Taylor,aJim Metzler There has been a lot written over the last few years about various techniques such as caching, compression, and protocol acceleration that can be used to overcome the limitations of the WAN relative to supporting application ...
NeoAccel's first entry into NAC; * NeoAccel's NAM-Plus.(network access control)(Brief article)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Tim Greene NeoAccel is introducing a NAC appliance that will allow a device onto a network but then block if from running unauthorized applications. Called NAM-Plus, the appliance performs a pre-admission scan of devices as they log in to the ...
Oracle search engine expands access to third-party data sources; Oracle software can be used to fish through EMC, Notes and other information stores.
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Brodkin Oracle has released a new version of its enterprise search application, which allows users to sift through a broader set of data sources, company officials said Monday. The out-of-the-box version of Secure Enterprise Search 10g is now ...
E-mail retention policies, Part 1; * Why e-mail retention is not just a good idea.(Column)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: M. E. Kabay My colleague and friend Prof. Don Holden, MBA, CISSP-ISSMP, noted a gap in the discussion of e-mail in our MSIA course some time ago and has graciously allowed us to print an edited version of his comments to students on the subject of e-mail ...
They're growing! * The number of branch offices continues to increase, creating more IT challenges.
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Robin Gareiss It's no huge surprise that with a relatively healthy global economy, we're seeing corporate expansion. I'm not talking about the $36 billion profit Exxon recently reported. I'm talking about the expansion of the size and number of branch ...
F5 takes it up a notch; * The Big-IP 8800 doubles the performance of F5's previous top-of-the-line WAN device.(F5 Networks Inc. launched application delivery platform)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Ann Bednarz There's a new top of the line for F5 Networks' Big-IP application delivery platform. The Big-IP 8800, unveiled last week, is designed to satisfy IT managers' appetite for more horsepower to handle bandwidth-intensive applications as ...
Cybercrime calculator targets hackers, terrorists; Threat calculator to be made available to private sector later this year.(Brief article)
Feb 06, 2007 ... Byline: Network World Staff The University of New Hampshire has unveiled a tool for gauging the level of threat any would-be attacker poses to the energy, emergency response or other sectors of the U.S. economy and infrastructure that rely heavily on IT and networks. ...
RSA '07: Crossroads launches database security appliance.(Crossroads Systems Inc., StrongBox DBProtector)(Brief article)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Deni Connor Crossroads today launched an enhanced version of its database-protection appliance that lets customers protect business-critical data from inappropriate access. At the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, the company unveiled its ...
Clearwell launches e-discovery appliance.(Clearwell Systems introduced Clearwell Intelligence Platform 2.0)(Brief article)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Deni Connor E-mail discovery vendor Clearwell Systems this week rolled out a new version of its appliance that makes discovery of message and documents easier for users. Clearwell announced Version 2.0 of its Clearwell Intelligence Platform, which ...
RSA '07: Arbor Networks launches new threat-analysis initiative.(Active Threat Level Analysis System )(Brief article)
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Arbor Networks announced Monday at the RSA trade showaa new threat-analysis initiative with the goal of zeroing in on zero-day attacks. RSA '07 HQ: Click here for complete coverage The network security company has ...
The botnets are coming! * The data center is the new castle, and the botnet hordes are coming for it.
Feb 06, 2007; ... Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos One of the main findings from Nemertes' security research in 2005 and 2006 was that the security perimeter is eroding. With all the connections to partners, suppliers and customers and all the mobile workers, it was almost impossible to ...