* Welcome to the afternoon edition of Network World Daily News.
Cisco broadens Carrier Ethernet line
Cisco this week is extending its Carrier Ethernet portfolio with a system that allows service providers to deliver fiber-based Ethernet to multi-tenant units, such as apartment buildings.
Salary Survey and Calculator
Our annual survey finds that IT pay raises last year beat the national increase, but that network professionals aren’t happy with their salary packages. Read our detailed report and use our calculator to see how your salary compares to that of your peers (and debate which coast is better for an IT career: East or West?).
New bloggers: Craig Mathias joins our award-winning community to blog about wireless: “Technologies, markets, applications, issues, problems, successes, challenges, all of it.” Ron Colonna will be blogging on Microsoft education, training and certification: “Microsoft has a lot of classes, exams and certifications and it can be very difficult to keep track of them all.”
Users debate whether trade-show booth babes are becoming history and what, if anything, Apple can or should do about efforts to crack the iPhone.
Wendell Odom thinks about EIGRP and other issues on CCNA exams. Greg Royal explains why corporate VoIP can still cause headaches.
John Obeto provides seven reasons for a Linux flameout. Chris Dalby takes a look at the Popfly Facebook mashup app. Michael Noel shows how to create a site collection in a new content database. Susan Hanley considers ways to increase content sharing in large organizations. Tyson Kopczynski discusses impending ways to manage VMware infrastructure with Windows PowerShell.
Joshua Levitt casts a wary eye on companies that claim they are suddenly green. Keith Shaw writes that high-speed robots frighten him. Deb Radcliff posts some recent stats on various types of malware. Goterpz posts a list of network engineering rules to live by.
Paul McNamara ponders a slippery loss of privacy in Boston and causes a stir with a post about a guy who lost all his important data when the store fixing his PC threw out his drive by mistake. Adam Gaffin reports on a man whose phone rings every single day at 4:45 p.m., but nobody ever answers.
In depth
Using virtualization to boost efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proclaimed that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006. That’s roughly 1.6% of total U.S. electricity consumption and is worth about about $4.5 billion. Assuming current trends continue, by 2011 the national energy consumption by data centers is expected to nearly double, making energy efficiency a top priority for CIOs.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user connect an unwired garage to a LAN and the Internet. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja looks at data-loss prevention.
More news
No price hike for SQL Server 2008, Microsoft says
Microsoft promises no price hike for SQL Server 2008 and lays out data warehousing, data types, management and developer improvements in new database slated to ship next year.
How to hit pay dirt when overhauling IT processes
Enterprise IT managers share their experience and advice on rolling out IT service management best-practice frameworks such as ITIL across their companies.
Network General customers face more change
Network General’s Sniffer business has changed hands a lot in the past few years, the latest a pending acquisition by NetScout, and customers tire of the instability.
IT grapples with overcrowded, energy-guzzling data centers
At AFCOM Data Center World, Andrew Fanara of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program talked about how the EPA is working to help reduce energy consumption in data centers.
