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Web 2.0 meets the enterprise: complications ensue
"Web 2.0 creep" going on inside the corporate firewall is challenging enterprise networks to handle the real-time demands
and bursty nature of the latest collaboration and social networking software, according to IT executives attending Interop.
EMC promises common management platform
EMC says that by year's end it will begin delivering "a common platform" for managing the company's myriad storage lines,
an advance long desired by customers weary of juggling multiple interfaces.
ZigBee: The new Bluetooth?
Although most IT professionals, as well as a majority of consumers, are familiar with the Bluetooth wireless data-communications
standard, very few are aware of the new ZigBee wireless data standard.
WAN optimization, VoIP and MPLS top IT managers' plans
LAS VEGAS –WAN optimization, VoIP and MPLS are among the technologies most of interest to IT executives attending Interop
this week, according to a survey conducted on the show floor.
Cisco, Nortel weigh in on switches of the future
Ethernet switch makers Cisco and Nortel this week said network professionals should start paying a lot more attention to keeping
their wiring closets cool and energy efficient as power consumption grows.
Software bargains: Useful tools for under $1,000
LAS VEGAS – IT executives wandering around the Interop Las Vegas show floor this week found some software bargains on everything
from network analyzers to emulation software to firewalls.
Microsoft further opens up identity platform
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled royalty-free access to another of its identity specifications and introduced four open-source
projects designed to improve interoperability among its identity management platform and those from other vendors and developers.
Why your company needs a chief privacy officer
In this era of data breaches and identity theft, chief privacy officers working hand-in-hand with security groups play a crucial
if little-known role in protecting identifiable personal information.
Disney-developed identity technology goes commercial
Start-up Bitkoo is releasing as a commercial product identity-management technology developed and deployed by The Walt Disney
Co. that it says provides cutting-edge authentication/authorization and auditing/compliance capabilities.
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