Cisco kisses NeoPath products goodbye
Cisco has given notice to customers of NeoPath Networks, the file-area network (FAN) and virtualization technology company it bought last month, that NeoPath products, support contracts and professional services will no longer be offered.
Microsoft’s new patch causing issues for XP usersJust one day after releasing an emergency patch for a vulnerability in its operating system, Microsoft has documented one problem with it and is asking users to report any other issues they might encounter.IT management done right
With the emergence of such technologies as VoIP, server virtualization and wireless networking, the lines between network, systems and applications groups keep getting blurrier. Network World Editor Bob Brown recently conducted separate interviews with three members of the 38-person IT team at Babson College, a business school for 3,300 students based in Wellesley, Mass., to gain insight into the perspectives of members from different departments and to learn how they are coordinating their efforts to manage a 9,000-port network (plus 300 wireless access points) across roughly 60 buildings.
Google to build $600M data center in South Carolina
Google plans to invest $600 million in a new data center in South Carolina, the state government said on Wednesday.
H1-B cap for 2008 reached in record time
Employers looking to keep skilled foreign workers on staff in 2008 this week rushed to file some 150,000 petitions with the U.S. agency doling out 65,000 H1-B visas.
Telcos stand to lose $4 billion to cable in SMB market
Cable company incursions into small business telephony could cost incumbent telcos $4 billion in lost revenue over the next five years, a market researcher claims.
Don’t use WEP, say German security researchers
The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it.
Lenovo top, Apple bottom in green IT ranking
Greenpeace has published its latest “green ranking” of the world’s biggest electronics companies and the results might surprise you.
LAN/WLAN integration growing but snags persist
Ethernet switch vendors who offer combined or unified LAN and WLAN gear say the ultimate goal is to get wired and wireless network technologies to appear as a single network access layer.
ForeScout bolsters NAC appliance
Network access control vendor ForeScout has added Oracle to the list of directory and access management software that integrates with its network appliance.
Interviews
Q&A: McAfee’s new CEO discusses consolidation and the Cisco threatOn Monday at 6 a.m., Dave DeWalt stood in front of McAfee’s Plano, Texas, offices to greet employees with coffee, doughnuts and a handshake. “They were wondering, ‘Who’s the guy in the suit?'” says the former EMC vice president who became McAfee’s CEO on April 2.Q&A: Cisco channel changes lead to smoother VoIP installs
Last year, Cisco revamped its channel partner certification programs in an effort to get the VARs and integrators – through which Cisco sells 80% of its products – to become more competent in such advanced technologies as IP telephony and voice, wireless and security. The change required partners to specialize in certain technology areas, such as VoIP or WLANs, as opposed to Cisco integrators who just resold, installed and supported the vendor’s whole product menu. A year after this program was launched, Edison Peres, vice president of worldwide channels at Cisco, talked with Network World about the state of expertise and certification in its channel.
Blogs
From Microsoft Subnet: Why did Microsoft drag its feet on the .ani patch?
Bloggers at Microsoft Security Response Center try to explain why the company took all this time to issue a fix, giving a glimpse of the process it takes to develop a patch. Also Computerworld interviews Mark Miller, director of Microsoft Security Response Center about the issue.
Today on Layer 8, where we think children should be heard and not seen:So you thought only Romulans had a cloaking device? Hardly. Purdue researchers using nanotechnology this week have taken a step toward creating an optical cloaking device that could make objects invisible.
