Face-off: Should you trust your network to open source? 03/05/07
In the commercial marketplace, where your network is the lifeblood of your enterprise, and predictability and profitability are vital, open source is often unpredictable — and that can keep your IT staff up at night.
Insider Threat: When disgruntled employees get clever, 03/05/07
I’ve heard of disgruntled employees taking company secrets, breaking them into several documents, and e-mailing them to competitors. Is it possible to capture data if it’s leaving the network in multiple formats across different ports?
Bradner: Smell-o-grams: backing into the future, 03/05/07
The South Korean Ministry of Information and Communication recently surveyed 3,500 South Korean techies on their views of what the tech future holds. Sadly, the prediction that the press seized on says more about the press than the future.
Editorial: IT Roadmap show hits hot buttons, 03/08/07
Network World’s IT Roadmap conference in Boston last week opened with an analyst roundtable discussion that provided a series of quips about the current thinking on everything from mobility to VoIP and e-discovery.
Johnson: Context-based computing: Say goodbye to your desktop, 03/07/07
One of the great things about spending time with IT executives is that they’re often way ahead of vendors and service providers when coming up with new technology requirements. Take what I’m calling “context-based computing”: As I noted in my previous …
Dr. Internet: Upgrading a home office to a hardware router, 03/08/07
I’m looking to upgrade to a hardware firewall for my home office that’s running a mix of PCs, Macs and occasionally a virtualized Linux machine or two over a stack of NetGear switches and a LinkSys cable modem. Any suggestions?
Kobielus: Compliance platforms emerging, maturing, 03/06/07
Compliance has been one of the dominant themes in the post-Enron age of corporate IT. Many software providers tout their offerings as solutions for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and every other regulatory mandate, industry best-practices …
Minoli: IPv6: Today or tomorrow? 03/06/07
The industry has produced several well-documented mechanisms to support a transition to IPv6, including the dual-stack approach, translation (the direct conversion of protocols between IPv4 and IPv6) and tunneling. These mechanisms are amply …
Antonopoulos: OpenID: User-centric identity, 03/05/07
Looking at the development of different technologies in the last two decades, I am amazed at the vast difference between how a technology was first envisioned and how it ended up being implemented.
Nutter’s Help Desk: Getting up to speed with VoIP, 03/05/07
My company is expecting to make the move to VoIP in the next year or so. I would like to learn some basics before the move is made and hopefully be able to ask the rights questions as the selection is made. Without hocking the family jewels, is there …
Wireless Security: Issues with SSID cloaking, 03/05/07
Are there any pitfalls to using SSID cloaking?
‘Net Buzz: Company’s new name has familiar ring, 03/02/07
Company needs a name change; founder chooses his own.
Cool Tools: The latest BlackBerry, 03/02/07
The scoop: BlackBerry 8800, from AT&T (Cingular), about $300 (with two-year agreement plus $50 monthly e-mail service and additional voice contract).
