* Welcome to the afternoon edition of Network World Daily News.
Breaking news
NXTcomm to show raft of next-gen service gear
IMS, IPTV and Carrier Ethernet to highlight NXTcomm conference in Chicago.
The do’s and don’ts of data breaches
Security consultants and professionals advise on how to react to a data breach.
HP acquisitions bring new, updated service management software
HP releases updated change control and configuration management software, as well as services designed to help customer roll out ITIL best practices.
Test
Open source management-tool alternatives hit the mark
Several open source networking vendors offer free tools that conform to the GNU licensing strategy and whose source code is readily downloadable on the Internet. If you hate to spend money, if you embrace the tenets of the Free Software Foundation or if you have programming skills you can devote to customizing and maintaining your own networking tools, then one of the three open source network management tools we tested might be right for you.
From the blogs and forums
Jeff Doyle, author of Routing TCP/IP, is back. We originally signed him on to do a guest Cisco blog for a month, but so many people liked his blog that he’s now back for good. Check out the discussion sparked by his post, EIGRP vs OSPF.
Brad Reese wonders if Cisco certification candidates are forced to cheat. Denise Donohue looks at bringing VoIP home. Greg Royal is loving the idea of a Network General VoIP visualization tool.
Green Your Network says Texans are setting an example for the rest of us through a bill to require recycling of computer parts. Layer 8 asks if you think IBM should forgive a debt owed by a California school system that managed to lose all its computers – and paperwork related to the purchase. Keith Shaw wonders: Could the Sprint Mogul be the enterprise iPhone? Tyson Kopczynski shows how he solved the case of the XP box on which Kerberos stopped working. John Obeto writes ODF is losing traction.
Users debate whether network security can cut it anymore. One user thinks many data breaches are really the fault of CSOs and their ilk who ignore problems discovered by network engineers. Another thinks talk of network security not cutting it anymore is ridiculous, because the alternative is to rely on clients and end users. A user discusses heavy fragmentation and storage optimization.
In depth
Converged security pays dividends
Security convergence – integrating building- and IT-access systems – is supposed to make life easier for everyone: IT, building security staff and employees coming into the office each day.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user figure out the best way to study on his own for the CCNA exam. Devin Akin discusses how to limit wireless clients to secured access points.
More news
How to create a computer-emergency response team
The basics of pulling together an incident-response team to react to data security breaches.
Linux community getting its second wind
Linux is entering its second phase of growth, which will be defined by better cooperation among developers, new licensing options, and a stronger operating system, according the leaders of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.
