Nortel plans major enterprise product launch
Nortel will soon unveil significant additions to its enterprise arsenal, including its initial entré into the WAN acceleration market.
Beware jumping the gun with 802.11n
Enterprise-class Draft N wireless LAN products: Do you need them yet? Wireless newsletter author Joanie Wexler looks at the evidence.
Microsoft demands royalties for open source software
Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.
Software aims to keep databases, Web apps under control
Securent Monday plans to announce the third version of its server-based Entitlement Management Solution software, adding a way to include fine-grained policy controls for several commercial database and Web-portal applications.
Slideshow: Your IT Summer Movie Guide
If you’re trapped in a data center this summer, you may not have time to peruse the “other” movie guides to find out whether a movie is right for you or not. And honestly, they don’t have your interest at heart like we do. So here’s our picks for the “must-see” movies of Summer 2007, and why you, as an IT network executive, should go see them.
HP unveils blade optimization services
HP this week announced a set of services that would offer blade server customers insight and expertise on power and cooling options, security measures and process improvements for their bladed environments.
Green IT
Eco-friendly products can help IT managers trim data center costs.
Case studyTravel agency consolidates outsourcing providers
The Travel Authority used to pay about eight to 10 vendors to provide local phone service, long distance and data services to the company’s few dozen branch offices across five states.
Blogs
Buzzblog: State outlaws texting while driving
The state of Washington has become the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while driving. The law could use sharper teeth, but it’s a natural and necessary progression of the movement to clamp down on those who find the need to constantly communicate more important than the safety of their fellow travelers.”
BitLocker secures mobile devices
John Obeto on Microsoft blogger writes: “New to Windows, albeit in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista only, is BitLocker drive encryption technology… a boon to IT admins in mobility situations.”
