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SOX: Five years of headaches
Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to prevent Enron-like scandals, the law has forced large public companies to clean
up their accounting. But it has been so costly that some foreign companies are dropping out of U.S. stock exchanges, and many
small firms are nowhere near complying with a deadline looming in December.
NAC alternatives hit the mark
Symantec tops Juniper, Cisco and Check Point in test of 13 NAC point products.
ConSentry switches NAC around a bit
ConSentry integrates standard functionality for network-access control directly into a switch device it calls LANShield —
which then replaces your existing access switches.
Juniper holds its own for all-in-one NAC with Infranet Controller
Unified Access Control is Juniper’s overall architectural answer to NAC, and the company’s Infranet Controller server software
lies at the center of the architecture.
Managing IP video on the network
The growing popularity of video surveillance is fueled by the shift to IP video systems that are less expensive than traditional
analog systems and make it easier to add or relocate cameras and multicast video signals to multiple locations.
Cisco pushing virtualization, automation
Cisco last week unveiled its next-generation data center strategy along with a key product to support that vision at its annual
Networkers conference.
Microsoft details online software service strategy
Software services model offers everything for server farms to management to applications and development platforms
Q&A: Security top concern for new IETF chair
Three months into his job as chair of the leading Internet standards body, Russ Housley talked with Network World National
Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan about his strategy for bolting security onto the freewheeling Internet.
When will HP’s software shopping spree pay off?
HP seeks to boost its software empire with the proposed $1.6 billion buyout of Opsware, but analysts wonder when HP’s buying
binge will pay off on the top and bottom lines.
Cisco users rock and roll all night
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Here’s a revelation: Some of the people running the biggest, most sophisticated and mission-critical networks
in the world are into KISS.
Bluesocket-Pingtel deal furthers dual-mode wireless technology for business
The marriage of Bluesocket and Pingtel is the latest in fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and signals that the technology is
about to soar.
Windows Vista sales hit 60 million
Microsoft says by June 2008 there will be one billion PCs running Windows in the world.
IT execs divided on need for strategic security vendor
IT execs split on whether to have a strategic security vendor, according to Nemertes Research survey.
Microsoft VoIP server and client complete
Microsoft’s plunge into voice market will put it against the likes of Cisco, IBM.
Microsoft leads series of Web-hosting announcements
New products from Microsoft and numerous other vendors illustrate the impact software-as-a-service is having on the hosting
industry.
Future of HTTP at center of debate
The Internet Engineering Task Force held a session in Chicago on Tuesday to debate whether HTTP should be tweaked to fix known
errors or completely reworked to address its well-known security weaknesses.
Grid pays handsome dividends for HR firm
The mainframe is alive and well at the global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates, but it’s
getting quite a bit of help these days from a Linux-based grid computing platform.
Q&A: Getting a read on Amazon’s Web-Scale Computing initiative
Catch Werner Vogels’ keynote address at the Next Generation Data Center Conference coming Aug. 6-9 to San Francisco.
Satellite services and telecommuting not always a pretty mix
Teleworkers should avoid slow and expensive satellite service unless cable, DSL and high-speed wireless are unavailable. It’ll
get you online, but VPN access is a challenge.
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