Welcome to the editor's choice edition. Look for the reader's choice edition on Thursday.
From the front page of Network World.
From the front page of Network World
Microsoft, Nortel CEOs expand on their VoIP alliance
Six months after announcing a grand VoIP-focused partnership that was light on specifics, Microsoft and Nortel last week detailed a series of planned products, including branch-office gear and offerings that address security and multimedia needs
Network execs struggle to rid their shops of shelfwareshelfware forum.
No IT executive plans for a new hardware or software purchase to wind up as shelfware – unused and collecting dust on a rack or a shelf somewhere. But it happens all too often. Plus: Discuss what you do with shelfware in our
IBM/Lotus to put social networking tools, sharing software in spotlight
IBM/Lotus next week plans to move its work from the lab to the limelight of Lotusphere, where it will introduce a bundle of social networking tools designed to revolutionize the way companies collaborate internally and with partners.
Reviews
Remote control: the long arm of support gets more fingers
Network World tests nine remote-control appliances.
Oracle jumps to the forefront of ID-management market
The latest edition of Oracle’s Identity Manager builds on the core provisioning functionality the company acquired with its 2005 purchase of Thor Technologies with new deployment, workflow, diagnostics and attestation tools.
From the blogs and forums
Paul McNamara ponders the absolute safest location in the entire U.S. for your data center. Readers discuss essential security practices. Some users are not happy with Symantec’s new license portal. Mark Gibbs notices some similarities between the Apple iPhone and an existing LG product. One reader wouldn’t work for any company that gets too personal with its background checks. Layer 8 considers the government’s telework shuffle. Linda Musthaler surveys the damage that can be done by old Web pages.
In depth
Data-classification best practices
A practical guide to evaluating solutions for efficient data classification.
IT security focuses on technology that stops hacking, phishing, worms, viruses and denial-of-service attacks. But security should extend to something much more human and personal – employees.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user protect his DNS servers.
ITVideo
Root out vulnerabilities like a hacker
Mu Security’s zero-day vulnerability scanners put hackers’ tools of the trade in your hands to root out potential flaws before they become a problem, says Ajit Sancheti, Mu Security CEO, on this week’s Network World Hot Seat.
More news
Behind the scenes of MIT’s network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network Manager/Security Architect Jeff Schiller is leaning back in a plum-colored recliner in his office, but he isn’t relaxing. The victim of a back problem that has forced him to forgo a more traditional office chair for now, the 25-year MIT network veteran has more than enough to do, with the school forging ahead with several major network projects, including a massive VoIP rollout and its foray as a regional fiber-optic network operator. Schiller covered the gamut in a recent interview with Network World Executive News Editor Bob Brown.
Cisco add-on disappoints government agency
Cisco is very well known among network managers and has delivered solid products over the years — which Jeff Duke says is part of the reason he ultimately wound up with Cisco shelfware in his network in Indianapolis.
Bowdoin College dumps unused switch on eBay
For Mitchel Davis, his shelfware nightmare came by way of a core switch that would sit dormant until the new CIO revamped his organization’s network and dumped one of his first purchases on the job.
After two years, a Microsoft CRM rollout pays off
Many network executives acquire shelfware in hectic times, such as when merging with another company.
Savvy negotiations smooth Kenexa’s shelfware struggle
Shelfware sometimes comes by way of a trusted vendor offering to improve the capabilities of a product already deployed. That was the case for Kamal Jain, director of ASP operations at Kenexa in Waltham, Mass., who wanted to get more out of data being collected by an existing vendor’s monitoring system.
