Snyder: Security gear: Separating the best from the rest, 01/31/07
I just finished a project for which I had to use many security products, and I was struck by how much of a difference there is between the good and the merely average. In particular, three characteristics separate great products from the rest of the pack.
Bernstein: How to avoid a college PC support nightmare, 01/30/07
Readers beware! What follows is a cautionary tale. It involves you, your child, their higher education and the central role the proper care and feeding of their PC play in all of this.
Tolly: Cache or Carry: Minimizing the video monster on your network, 01/30/07
Like so many things, corporate video-over-IP has been heralded as the “next big thing” for some time now. And, like so many technology breakthroughs before it, IP video is finally entering many companies through the “back door” – the employee.
Editorial: Venture capitalists reveal hot sectors, 02/01/07
I recently hosted a panel discussion featuring leading Boston-area venture capitalists and the conversation ranged from hot investment sectors to the differences between East and West Coast venture capital firms.
Nolle: Is FMC going to change wireline? 01/31/07
You can’t complain that there’s nothing going on in the area of fixed-mobile convergence, but there are some questions about exactly what is happening. The market has sent three different signals over the last few months, and just how FMC might impact …
Johnson: Here’s to the research innovators, 01/31/07
At last week’s Vista rollout, Steve Ballmer reportedly remarked that the Internet “wasn’t fully developed” in 1995. That sparked an interesting dialogue among many of the IETF luminaries, who had researched and developed the Internet in the 1980s and …
‘Net Buzz: Vendors make a splash without causing a scene, 02/02/07
Sixty-eight companies at Network World’s DEMO 07 conference last week managed to bring attention to their new products and services without shutting down a single highway, bridge or river. Not a bomb-sniffing dog in sight. No one hauled off in handcuffs.
Backspin: Tagging, no longer fun and easy, 02/05/07
Most people think that tagging on the Web is pretty easy and fun. Give ’em a blog or a Web page and a field named “tags,” and they’ll start stuffing in text with wild abandon in the hopes that their content will be easily found by people who are …
Cool Tools: Cool products from DEMO, 02/01/07
Here are some cool products that launched last week at DEMO 2007 (produced by Network World’s events team):
Gearhead: Kicking virtualization up a notch, 02/01/07
Of all of the technology trends that have been important in the world of enterprise IT, there’s one that stands out as the 800-pound gorilla – the pink elephant if you will – of the last few years: virtualization.
Dr. Internet: Sending e-mail to cell phones from Web forms, 02/01/07
We have some existing Web forms that generate e-mails when they are submitted to the server. How can we have these text messages sent to cell phones as well?
‘Net Buzz: Wikipedia has to do what it has to do, 01/29/07
Wikipedia is always in the middle of some brouhaha or another, and last week was a double-header.
Face-off: Should security appliances be in-line or out of band? 01/29/07
The question of whether security appliances should be deployed in-line or out of band depends on the answer to other key questions. Is authenticating users enough, or does IT need to control where users go on the network? For example, …
Bradner: TJX security breach aftermath: a case study in what to do wrong, 01/29/07
Late week I wrote about what retailer TJX had done wrong leading up to its recent widely reported security lapse.This week’s column is about what TJX has done wrong since the lapse was discovered.
Wireless Security: 802.1X for a small network, 01/29/07
What are some easy solutions for implementing 802.1X based authentication on a SOHO wireless network?
Nutter’s Help Desk: The costs of data across a WAN, 01/29/07
Do different types of data have different costs of data for the same quantity? For instance, is using an equivalent amount of bandwidth, say 10Mb, viewing web pages more or less expensive than using 10Mb to download an MP3 or watch a streaming video? …
Cool Tools: OtterBox makes rugged BlackBerry cases, 01/26/07
It’s probably not the best idea to give BlackBerry fanatics additional places where they can feed their wireless e-mail addiction, but there may be times when using a BlackBerry in a rugged condition is required for a job. In that case, OtterBox …
Backspin: Demonizing the ‘Net and losing free speech, 01/26/07
Recently my colleague Paul McNamara wrote in his Buzzblog about yet another case of the Internet being demonized, and the piece generated quite a bit of feedback.
