How MySpace is hurting your network; 10 automation companies to watch

Opinion
Jun 25, 20072 mins

How MySpace is hurting your network

Increasingly popular social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

10 automation companies to watch

Run-book, IT process and data-center automation companies deliver products to help IT shops reduce manual work, eliminate repetitive tasks and speed problem resolution.

Cisco moving reputation services into network devices

As Cisco closes its acquisition of communications security company IronPort, it announces plans to integrate IronPort’s Web reputation services with its routers and firewalls.

Video, iPhone dominate NXTcomm

CEOs from AT&T, Verizon and Cisco gauge industry impact of iPhone, video

Symantec offers compensation for bad software update

More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it’s only good for a couple of weeks.

Microsoft kills continuation of Longhorn client project

Microsoft Corp. has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client code-named “Longhorn.”

Podcast

Sitting on the storage hot seat

A number of storage industry executives found themselves on the Hot Seat when president and editorial director of Network World John Gallant conducted a series of podcast interviews.

Blogs

Buzzblog: Runnin’ a scam… and runnin’ on emptyform? And how far can your car go after the gas-tank warning light comes on?

Why would 28,000 Massachusetts motorists pay $10 apiece for a free

Today on Cisco Subnetit has moved American jobs to India. Author Expert Denise Donohue describes SIP Trunking and the IP NGN. Jeff Doyle shares two more perspectives on EIGRP. Plus: It’s the final week to enter to win a CCNP Quick Reference Sheets Bundle.

Cisco, which last year clocked 13th on the list of the U.S.’s largest H-1B users, denied recent reports that