News podcast: Network World 360Woven Systems looks to trump high-scale 10G Ethernet switches, Broadcom slaps Qualcomm with another lawsuit, Cycling pro turns to ’Net to clear name. (8:13)HP lays out ProCurve NAC planBy year-end, ProCurve by HP will have a fleshed-out NAC portfolio to check devices before they are admitted to networks, assign and enforce their access rights as they join networks and monitor their behavior to restrict them if they misbehave.Corporate data slips out via Google calendarIt’s not clear what gets discussed during McKinsey & Co.’s weekly internal communication meeting, but the dial-in number and passcode for the event can be easily found by searching with Google.The benefits of crowdsourcing
Scott Anthony, a colleague of industry guru Clayton Christensen and managing director of Innosight in Watertown, Mass., says social networking, which encourages companies and individuals to collaborate via technology, is helping to drive openness.
Woven Systems looks to trump high-scale 10G Ethernet switches
Start-up Woven Systems this week is expected to launch its 10G Ethernet data center switch — a box the company says one-ups the switching power of Cisco, Force10 Networks and Foundry Networks 10G gear and matches the low-latency performance of Fibre Channel and InfiniBand with lower-cost Ethernet technology.
University research labs held back by home-run mentality, report finds
Universities spend so much energy trying to get huge payoffs from a handful of their researchers’ technology developments that lots of other technologies never get a chance to be patented, licensed, commercialized or used.
Adobe CEO responds to Microsoft’s Silverlight
The head of Adobe Systems has questioned Microsoft’s commitment to keeping its new Silverlight platform compatible with other operating systems besides Windows.
Intel plans powerful x86 chip with many cores
Intel is developing a programmable processor with many cores that is compatible with the x86 instruction set and capable of performing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, a senior company executive said Tuesday at the Intel Developer …
E-mail security appliance uses profiling to thwart spammers’ tricks
Barracuda Networks on Tuesday announced new features for its Spam Firewall e-mail security appliance that help detect spam even when senders attempt to hide their identity.
The pros and cons of third-party software support
The Virginia Farm Bureau has been using PeopleSoft Financials since 1993, and for most of that time the organization paid hefty support costs for what Farm Bureau officials considered to be limited service.
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Buzzblog: 4 million days of downtime means?
Not much, other than that it represents the cumulative downtime for 51.3 million active Web sites during the month of March, according to Pingdom. What’s more interesting is the difference between 99.73 and 99.9.
Editor’s Note
Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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