http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/ en-us 2003-05-01T13:10:02-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002719.html Last year, Network World did a review of intrusion detection systems, and the results were not pretty. Most of the products failed under a huge load of false positives. But the vendors are committed to solving the problem and we're... Security Neal Weinberg 2003-05-01T13:10:02-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002718.html CMS Peripherals makes portable hard disk drives for backing up data on laptops. When I met the marketing manager, he told me he couldn't give me a regular demo because someone had just walked away with the sales guy's briefcase,... Backup Toni Kistner 2003-05-01T11:50:11-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002717.html While not yet formally announced, SSL-VPN vendor Whale Communications says IBM will soon license its technology for use with Lotus Notes and Sametime.... Security Toni Kistner 2003-05-01T11:30:51-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002716.html Netgear is trying to put some distance between itself and Linksys by focusing on small business products and its VAR channel. While Netgear says it's not abandoning the consumer market, it says it's concentrating on managed switches, gigabit switches, firewalls... SOHO networks Toni Kistner 2003-05-01T11:28:13-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002712.html VBrick, which makes hardware-based MPEG encoders and decoders, is powering the video view of the show floor, with cameras mounted in the various network racks around the convention center. Each camera connects into a VBrick device, which encodes the video... Jason Meserve 2003-04-30T19:34:06-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002710.html This reporter's vote for cool product of the show goes to EmergeCore for its all-in-one IT-100 box for small offices. The IT-100 combines a router (wired and 802.11b wireless), firewall, Web, FTP and e-mail server, DNS, file sharing and multiple... Jason Meserve 2003-04-30T19:12:09-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002709.html Back in the dot-com boom it was common to see recruiters and job sites look for applicants. Now, not so much. Though, tucked away in the back corner of the floor is State Farm Insurance, here not to sell policies,... Jason Meserve 2003-04-30T19:00:11-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002708.html Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist and chairman of IP address infrastructure software vendor Nominum, is getting ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of DNS, which he invented. How does he plan to celebrate? Well, his company is plotting a party. But... Bob Brown 2003-04-30T18:20:02-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002706.html We wandered the show floor asking attendees: What technology are you hoping to learn more about here at the show? Check out the answers here.... Jason Meserve 2003-04-30T15:06:22-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002705.html Steven Kent, network+interop 2003, BBN Technologies, keynotes, security Ellen Messmer 2003-04-30T12:57:25-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002704.html Official attendence figures for the show are not yet available, but if Tuesday afternoon's taxi line was any indication, there's no way 40,000 people are here - as touted in pre-show literature. At 5 p.m., usually a hectic time to... Jason Meserve 2003-04-30T11:35:26-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002701.html wireless/mobile, Bluesocket, wireless switches, wireless LANs, Bluesocket, Vivato, NetWorld+Interop 2003 wireless Neal Weinberg 2003-04-30T02:42:05-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002700.html What's up with InfiniBand? Is it dead or alive? If you've been asking yourself that question, the InfiniBand Trade Association wants you to know that Infiniband is, indeed, alive. The group argues that InfiniBand is the ideal solution for server... InfiniBand Neal Weinberg 2003-04-30T02:39:53-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002699.html Say goodbye to the NetVista corporate desktop. IBM is replacing the NetVista line with the ThinkVantage series. The low-end ThinkVantage, which will sell for between $699 and $749 (sans monitor), looks to be about the size of an old laptop.... Desktop news Neal Weinberg 2003-04-30T02:35:41-05:00 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/ni/2003/002698.html Computer Associates, NetWorld+Interop 2003, Cisco, John Chambers, Sanjay Kumar Bob Brown 2003-04-29T20:47:29-05:00