Latest standards and regulations news.
Groups raise concerns about cybersecurity standards, 04/24/07: Legislation that would authorize the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to create emergency perparedness standards for private industry takes the wrong approach toward cybersecurity, some experts said Tuesday.
LANs & Routers Newsletter: Backplane Ethernet standard approved, 04/24/07: The IEEE Standards Association recently approved a standard for backplane Ethernet, to be called 802.3ap.
Microsoft requests guidance on protocol pricing, 04/23/07: Microsoft asked the European Commission on Monday how much it should charge for protocol information, in an attempt to defuse the latest crisis between the regulator and the software giant.
Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: SNIA unveils fixed content specification, 04/26/07: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) launched a working group last week that will create a standard interface for applications generating fixed content.
Standard for secure mobile phone payments is on the way, 04/26/07: The mobile phone industry has moved forward in its efforts to agree to a global standard for delivering secure services such as credit-card payments on handheld devices, according to an industry executive.
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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