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From the front page of Network World
Vendors make a splash without causing a sceneDEMO ’07 page.
Sixty-eight companies at Network World’s DEMO 07 conference last week managed to bring attention to their new products and services without shutting down a single highway, bridge or river. Not a bomb-sniffing dog in sight. No one hauled off in handcuffs. Plus, get complete DEMO coverage on our
Reviews
Check Point delivers long-awaited appliance
The Check Point UTM-1 series impressed us in our exclusive Clear Choice Test with its integrated manageability and showed its performance chops with basic firewall and intrusion-prevention-system rules in place.
Centeris Likewise 2.0 helps Windows, Linux coexist
Centeris Likewise 2.0 is a tool that changes Linux settings using an application that has a Windows look and feel rather than one comprising many disparate Linux command line or console methods.
From the blogs and forums
Some users say bravo for Novell’s GroupWise and consider Cisco’s latest security alerts. You know how to do PC support in your sleep. But now your kid is going off to college. What do you do? Jason Meserve highlights the Web. Adam Gaffin considers innocent videos caught up in Viacom’s new war on YouTube. Paul McNamara ponders a development that requires users to secure their wireless connections.
In depth
When the sensors feeding into Internet Security Systems’ Global Threat Operations Center detected a new XML HTTP vulnerability early last November, attacks exploiting that vulnerability already were occurring across the Internet.
Don’t be alarmed by IPv6’s declining numbers
Before a tsunami hits shore the sea recedes abruptly and there is a deceiving period of calm before the waves arrive. Given IPv6 address allocation trends, perhaps the analogy applies to the deployment of IPv6.
Charleston Southern University CIO Rusty Bruns has a secret weapon to handle needy users — Buddy Gray, a 63-year-old network manager.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user decide between roll-your-own and turnkey NAS systems. Tom Bowers helps you get started with content monitoring as a way to curb proprietary information leaking out of your network.
More news
Gates, Ellison to tout security at RSA
The annual RSA Conference, expected to draw 15,000 security professionals and more than 325 vendors from around the world to San Francisco’s Moscone Center exhibit hall, kicks off this week with keynotes from industry luminaries Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
Not using all of that GigE pipe? Save some energy
The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises. The trick: finding a way to seamlessly throttle between 10Mbps and 10Gbps.
Cisco bolsters Catalyst switches with PoE, 10 Gigabit
Cisco this week juiced up its Catalyst switch line with gear that boosts Power-over-Ethernet support, backup power and failover, and 10G Ethernet connectivity at the LAN edge.
Cisco stackable switches add up to savings at Duke University
When some network architects deploy thousands of LAN ports for users, they use chassis switches at the LAN edge for easier management and failover. Duke University, however, finds better network management and cost savings through stacking switches.
Microsoft adding more users than IBM in e-mail battle, report shows
Microsoft is growing faster and gaining more users than IBM in terms of their e-mail and calendaring tools, but the two vendors are near equals when it comes to customer dissatisfaction, according to a new report from Gartner.
