* Cisco's IOS set for radical pricing, feature changes * Nortel: Why Cisco should be worried * Case study: 'Tis the season for the U.S. Postal Service network to deliver * SEC extends Sarbanes-Oxley deadlines for smaller companies * Q&A: GroundWork guru talks about open source management options * Google, NASA plan major announcement Monday * Rooting out app performance issues * Buzzblog: 'Stop piping cats' and nine other less amusing Unix tips * Today on Layer 8
Cisco’s IOS set for radical pricing, feature changes
Cisco over the next five years plans to radically change how it sells and delivers router and switch software, in part by making that software more virtualized and modular. Details of the road map were delivered in a session at Cisco’s C-Scape analyst conference last week in San Jose. Click here for more.
Nortel: Why Cisco should be worried
It’s been a little more than a year since Mike Zafirovski left Motorola to take the reins at Nortel. In that time he has remade top management, raised the profile of Nortel’s enterprise business, focused product development, slashed costs, instituted quality and ethics principles, and established sales and profitability targets. Zafirovski shared his thoughts with Network World on how things have gone and what’s next. Click here for the full interview.
Case study: ‘Tis the season for the U.S. Postal Service network to deliver
The U.S. Postal Service expects to ship 20 billion packages and letters this holiday season. Behind that massive workload is an equally massive VPN that is at the forefront of telecom industry trends, including dual sourcing and long-term contracting. Click here for more.
SEC extends Sarbanes-Oxley deadlines for smaller companies
Most public companies will not have to comply with financial reporting requirements set by Sarbanes-Oxley for at least one more year, because of a deadline extension granted Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Click here for more.
Q&A: GroundWork guru talks about open source management options
A former network engineer turned author and open source software developer, Taylor Dondich says applications such as Nagios provide a viable low-cost, high-performance alternative to commercial IT management and monitoring tools. Now a senior developer at GroundWork Open Source, Dondich recently published a book called Network Monitoring with Nagios, in which he provides tips and tricks to get the popular open source monitoring application up and running quickly in IT shops. Dondich recently discussed with Network World the evolution of open source management applications. Click here for the full interview.
Google, NASA plan major announcement Monday
NASA’s Ames Research Center plans a “major announcement involving Google” Monday. Click here for more.
Rooting out app performance issues
Do you only learn about apps problems when a user calls to scream at you? ClearApp CEO Jason Donahue says he can help you get out ahead of the pain on this week’s Network World Hot Seat video. Watch now.
Buzzblog: ‘Stop piping cats’ and nine other less amusing Unix tips
You don’t have to speak Unix to appreciate the unintentional humor in tip No. 10 on Michael Stutz’s advice list: “Stop piping cats.” Of course, Stutz later admits that he pipes a cat or two from time to time. Click here for more.
Today on Layer 8, looser than a Wii strap:
Forrester’s revisionist iTunes history; one smart way to sell mobile phones; Nintendo recalls Wii straps; an important Layer 8 announcement; and the winner of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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