* Review: Patch-management products move toward remediation * Symantec NetBackup users urged to update software * Massachusetts CIO reflects after resignation * Free DNS tool provider adds monitoring, membership services * Major corporations embrace SOA, but Fidelity worries about cost * Top 10 network storage blogs * Buzzblog: Questions about the USPS and Microsoft * Today on Layer 8
News podcast: Network World 360
IEEE sets sights on 100G Ethernet, Microsoft Research fights critics, XenSource expands virtualization software lineup, and companies waste millions in unnecessary telecom charges. (10:06) Listen now.
Review: Patch-management products move toward remediation
Patch-management products have evolved from simply pushing out patches to now encompassing more preemptive security measures, including manipulating security configuration settings, deploying standard software packages, maintaining policy compliance and taking an active role in vulnerability remediation. In this Clear Choice Test we evaluated six products previously rooted in patch management that now claim to help ease remediation activities. Click here for the results.
Symantec NetBackup users urged to update software
Users of Symantec Veritas NetBackup software are being advised to immediately update their systems with newly created patches that repair several serious security vulnerabilities that could allow remote intruders to gain access to affected systems and execute arbitrary code. Click here for more.
Massachusetts CIO reflects after resignation
Louis Gutierrez was Massachusetts’ first CIO and director of the state’s Information Technology Division from 1996 to 1998. He moved to the private sector before assuming other public-sector posts and was lured back to his old job in early 2006 following the controversial departure of his predecessor. Gutierrez resigned in October after eight months to protest the lack of state funding for IT projects. Recently, he spoke with Network World. Click here for the full interview.
Free DNS tool provider adds monitoring, membership services
As e-commerce companies tackle increased traffic and an uptake in Web-site demand during the holiday season, they also might want to consider whether their DNS servers are configured properly. Click here for more.
Major corporations embrace SOA, but Fidelity worries about cost
Fidelity Investments and State Street Corp. are among the companies making what some call an “uncomfortable transition” to service-oriented architecture, an approach to building IT systems that’s centered around the deployment of reusable application components. Click here for more.
Top 10 network storage blogs
Deni Connor: When you’re immersed in storage as I am, it’s impossible to ignore the blogs of analysts, vendors and consultants. The blogs written by storage company executives can be surprisingly vendor-agnostic, though the analysts and consultants still tend to pull fewer punches. Here are the 10 best I’ve come across – though with the rate at which new blogs pop up, it will probably be time to revisit this list before long. Click here for more.
Podcast: Twisted Pair
When Regis blogs, you know it’s over… Jason and Keith talk about the latest cyber-terrorist threats, whether blogging is officially over the hump, and offer tips about what NOT to do at your company’s holiday party. Listen now.
Cool Tools video: Wireless routers for the road
West Coast Correspondent Joel Snyder talks about his experiences with various wireless travel routers and tells Keith why the SMC model is his favorite.
As telecom goes, so go its fancy buildings
The SBC Switching Station is one of many examples of cutting-edge architecture built by high-flying, high-tech companies that are now under different ownership, like so many other telecom industry assets. Part of the 12 Days of Wider Nets, our series of offbeat stories. Click here for more.
Buzzblog: Questions about the USPS and Microsoft
Why is the U.S. Postal Service sending spam to its customers? And why does the maker of Windows hold a patent on a door hinge?
Today on Layer 8, where we can never get enough egg nog:
YouTube alleges editorial integrity; bloggers want to ditch the sweatpants and basement; a sign of the blogging apocalypse; and the nerdiest Google Took yet; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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