Jeff Caruso

managing editor, online news

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World. Contact him.

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Recent articles by Caruso

Critics question Comcast caps; Survey: 8 out of 10 disgruntled workers steal data
Sep. 16, 2008
Some critics suggest Comcast's bandwidth cap may cause problems for users in the future; When IT employees are dismissed, watch out! A new survey by Cyber-Ark Software, a provider of identity management products, ...

Service providers loading up on IP routers
Sep. 04, 2008
Infonetics Research this week gave an update on the service-provider router market, which continued to grow at a rapid pace in the second quarter of this year.

Google's browser; Novell's Compliance Management Platform
Sep. 03, 2008
Google Tuesday released its own browser with a revved-up Java Script engine called V8; Novell Tuesday is launching its Compliance Management Platform.

'Conventional' approaches to networking
Sep. 02, 2008
One of the most interesting areas of networking is the construction of a high-speed network for a single event - with all of the hardware, software, planning and hard work that go into building the network, running it ...

Banks mining cash from their computers; Samsung ink lawsuit
Aug. 29, 2008
In another sign of a tight economy, even those that have the money are getting creative with their IT resources in order to find a little financial wiggle room; Electronics giant Samsung has been slapped with a lawsuit ...

Sprint WiMax features location-based offerings; Cisco buys PostPath for $215 million
Aug. 28, 2008
Sprint Nextel will put location-based services front and center on its Xohm WiMax service, offering a portal with widgets for local weather, traffic, events, reviews and other information; Cisco is buying PostPath, a ...

Switches for SMBs
Aug. 28, 2008
Adtran and Alcatel-Lucent this week separately rolled out switches aimed at small and midsize businesses.

Network failure delays flights; Storage market thrives
Aug. 27, 2008
A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the eastern United States; The storage market is thriving despite a tough economy, as exploding digital information growth has ...

Citrix adds virtualization to app delivery; Firefox gets security boost
Aug. 26, 2008
Citrix Systems aligns application delivery tools with desktop and server virtualization, and Firefox browser gets DNS flaw protection from Carnegie-Mellon University

802.11n: Game-changer
Aug. 26, 2008
I've previously written about how the rise of wireless LAN equipment using the IEEE 802.11n standard is becoming a force to be reckoned with, and new data shows that the rate of migration to the new equipment is really ...

Red Hat says servers breached; 'Fat tree' could trim data center costs
Aug. 25, 2008
Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, this ...

Virtual healthcare; Firefox SSL-certificate debate
Aug. 22, 2008
Voice-activated systems extend healthcare to patients' homes; New security feature in Firefox 3.0 has critics crying foul

New router algorithm looks to improve updates; Seinfeld to pitch Microsoft
Aug. 21, 2008
A team of computer scientists have developed a new update to speed router path table updates; Microsoft is said to have hired Jerry Seinfeld to be its spokesperson in a new ad campaign.

10 Gigabit Ethernet reaches two milestones
Aug. 21, 2008
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market reached two milestones in the second quarter of this year, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group.

DNC nets get supersized; Gartner predicts slow IT spending growth
Aug. 20, 2008
Qwest and partners have laid down a massive voice and data network to support the 50,000 attendees of the Democratic National Convention; Gartner predicts that IT spending growth will slow to 6% in 2009.

N-Data back with different patents
Aug. 19, 2008
Six months after settling with the FTC on an Ethernet-related patent, Negotiated Data Solutions, or N-Data, is back in the headlines.

Microsoft lifts licensing restriction on virtual servers; Check Point goes virtual
Aug. 19, 2008
Microsoft today confirmed it will eliminate a licensing restriction that prevented customers from moving virtualized applications to a different server more frequently than every 90 days; Check Point Software is ...

Microsoft floats PowerPoint prototype; IBM's XIV storage lacks high-end features
Aug. 18, 2008
Microsoft Thursday floated a trial balloon on a new PowerPoint prototype that starts with a single view and uses a zoom feature for highlighting text, pictures and other details. IBM has quietly released the first ...

Microsoft Master certifications; Court ruling protects open-source software
Aug. 15, 2008
Microsoft has designed a new "Master"-level certification for IT pros who really need to specialize in a particular product, like Exchange, SQL Server or Windows Server; Free software advocates are praising a federal ...

AT&T snags Boeing VoIP contract; Microsoft may alter licensing for virtual machines
Aug. 14, 2008
Boeing is paying AT&T $400 million over the next five years to consolidate its current voice and data networks into one IP-based system; Virtualization industry observers expect Microsoft to eliminate a licensing ...

Even embedded systems need prioritization
Aug. 14, 2008
It's something that's taken for granted on enterprise LAN hardware, but Quadros Systems just this week introduced the ability to do priority-based processing of Ethernet packets in its embedded, real-time operating ...

Patch Tuesday; VMware bug bombs virtual servers
Aug. 13, 2008
Microsoft Tuesday issued six critical patches, one less than expected, covering Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player; Many VMware customers Tuesday were prevented from logging onto their virtual ...

HP buys Colubris; Verizon avoids a strike
Aug. 12, 2008
HP ProCurve division looks to shore up transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing applications with Colubris technology; Verizon Sunday averted a potential labor strike by completing a new labor pact with two unions ...

Bag of 10-Gigabit chips
Aug. 12, 2008
In a sign of building momentum toward higher-speed LANs, chip companies have been tripping over each other in recent days to announce their latest silicon supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Ex-Cisco exec launches video start-up; Federal government locks down networks
Aug. 11, 2008
A former Cisco executive pulled the curtains back on a start-up company developing a real-time IP video processing and collaboration platform. The federal government is locking down its networks through an ambitious and ...