Power Struggles

A guide to four contentious issues playing out in the network industry

Clash of the server titans

IBM, HP and Sun are sparring over strategies for building self-healing, self-managing server networks.

The new Web services dance

IBM, Microsoft and Sun have come to the Web services ball with opposing ideas over a so-called choreography standard that would automate workflow.

Why old data services thrive while new ones wither

Optical and Gigabit Ethernet services promise big bandwidth and performance boosts at great rates. So why aren't they being used?

Making way for the new VPN

Secure Sockets Layer's arrival on the virtual private network scene has IP Security-based VPN vendors rethinking their product portfolios.

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