Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
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Highlight of the week:
Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest: Finding Wireless Interference; Testing your firewall
Join Ron Nutter for the first installment of Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest. Listen to listeners questions to Ron as they are answered, a review of this weeks Tools of the Trade – Wi-Spy from MetaGeek.net. Ron’s guest for the How To Corner is Steve Gibson of Shields Up/Spinrite fame as they discuss checking to make sure your firewall is doing its job. (45:43)
More videos and podcasts:
Cool Tools video: Fujitsu U810 is mobile user’s dreamKeith finds the Fujitsu Lifebook U810 to be close to the Holy Mobile Computing Grail of Ultra-Portable Computing. Twisted Pair podcast: Rumor Mill: Who’s Buying Who?
Jason and Keith discuss the latest gossip on tech company acquisitions, whether the iPhone is toxic, and how you should deal with offensive co-workers. (42:19)
Panorama podcast: Change management tools can prevent application outagesGartner says 80% of downtime is due to human error and problems created by process, such as inadequate testing and unauthorized changes. And research from Managed Objects, a provider of business service management tools, shows many of these failures come from custom or home-grown applications. Network World’s Jason Meserve talks about the issue of application outages and what can be done to prevent them with Michele Hudnall, director of service management at Managed Objects. (12:34) Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Identity management helps take load off Sabre’s legacy systems
For Sabre Holdings, identity management and security provisioning tools from Sun and Netegrity, have eased the burden on its mainframe processing systems and allowed the company to move to more open systems for supporting the 1 million peak transactions per hour it must process. Kurtis Holland, Principal, IT Security at Sabre Holdings, explains what steps went to into picking which tools to use and what you can do to avoid mistakes when implementing identity management in your own enterprise environment. (9:19)
Panorama podcast: SOA’s ready-made architectural modelThe OASIS standards body has recently begun working on the service component architect (SCA) specification already widely supported throughout the Java vendor community. This is great news for enterprises building service-oriented architectures as a model such as this will considerably ease the pain of gathering Web services into a cohesive whole. Duane Nickull, a senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems and recognized SOA authority the world over, explains how SCA works and why it’s so important to enterprise SOA in this talk with New Data Center Editor Beth Schultz. (33:08) LinuxWorld podcast: The Linux filesystem of the future: Val Henson
Disks are getting bigger faster than they’re getting better transfer rates and seek times. If today’s trends keep up, within a few years many filesystems will take days or weeks to run “fsck”. Kernel developer Val Henson talks about future filesystems that will let Linux administrators keep up with storage growth. (14:53)
JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider podcast: Michael Stonebraker on why row storage is obsoleteVertica co-founder Michael Stonebraker recently made waves with his claim that the traditional RDBMS is a legacy system, and that row-based data storage is insufficient to the needs of the enterprise today. In this episode of JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider, Howard Wen speaks with Dr. Stonebraker about the advantages of switching to column-oriented data storage, and also gets his candid thoughts about the future of data management in the era of Web 2.0.
