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10/29/07

This week in Network World

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What’s holding Vista back?
Adoption of Microsoft’s Vista isn’t slipping because of technical gotchas, but rather because of the repeated delays that have knocked it out of sync with corporate upgrade cycles.

Co-working: the ultimate in teleworking flexibility
Co-working communities, which combine the relaxed, informal atmosphere of working at home with sociability and cost-sharing of an office, have emerged as alternatives for telecommuters who miss having real human interaction during work.

Feature article

Is Fibre Channel dead?
Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level installations at large enterprises that have Fibre Channel, customers increasingly are choosing iSCSI.

Tests/Buyer's Guides

HP's 'shorty' blade server takes fresh approach
Is HP's BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure a blade server, or is it a modular, server put into a 6U rack profile? It's a bit of both.

Tech Update

The evolution of antivirus software
Reports about the death of traditional signature-based antivirus software are premature. As the threat landscape evolves, so too must antivirus software to provide both signature- and behavioral-based protection. Effective endpoint security must also incorporate technologies such as endpoint firewall, host intrusion prevention and network access control.

More news

T. Rowe goes 2.0
These days T. Rowe Price vice president Kirk Kness is busy implementing relatively low-cost, Web 2.0-based collaboration tools including wikis and blogs.

Presence comes to P&G
When your CEO challenges you to create the world’s most collaborative company, you’d best take some definitive steps in that direction.

Building virtual worlds at Boeing
Want to see how an F-16 will react to the latest antiaircraft weapons? Tip Slater is your man.

Despite Cisco’s play, WiMAX has long way to go
Cisco’s buy of WiMAX vendor Navini shows the network giant sees broadband wireless access as a key technology. Just don’t expect it to blossom overnight.

Seven enterprise IT start-ups grab new funding
A look at seven enterprise technology innovators that received significant venture capital during the third quarter of 2007.

Storm worm can befuddle NAC
A newly discovered capability of the Storm worm could invalidate results churned out by NAC products, attendees at Interop New York learned last week.

Oracle and BEA: What happens next?
BEA Systems has rejected Oracle’s $6.7 billion purchase offer. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

Payment-card security standards for wireless and Web applications debated
Proposed new security standards governing wireless and applications from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council are stirring debate among merchants still struggling with PCI compliance on existing security standards.