* Users demand better network hardware mgmt. * Justice launches fly-off competition for $2.5 billion wireless deal * MessageLabs launches encrypted IM software * Fear and loathing of video on the LAN * Network World Radio: Trying out a new format * Today on Layer 8
Users demand better network hardware management
While network equipment makers have reinforced the management elements in their routers, switches, accelerators and voice equipment, customers still want more. Hardware vendors have long supplemented their gear with management applications – take CiscoWorks, for example – but industry watchers say the trend is to make gear easier to manage alongside competitive hardware and by third-party software applications such as CA Unicenter, HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli. Click here for more.
Justice launches fly-off competition for $2.5 billion wireless deal
The Justice Department has narrowed the field down to two bidders – General Dynamics C4 Systems and Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions – for a five-year, $2.5 billion wireless communications system that will be used by all federal law enforcement officials. Click here for more.
MessageLabs launches encrypted IM software
MessageLabs Monday launched encrypted IM software, targeting companies that use consumer IM clients for collaboration and document sharing. Click here for more.
Fear and loathing of video on the LAN
The biggest challenge to video on the network: overcoming the fear, uncertainty and doubt. Rich Mavrogeanes, founder of VBrick, tells you how to get beyond all that on this week’s Network World Hot Seat. Watch now.
Network World Radio: Trying out a new format
Network World’s original podcast program is testing out a new format, where Keith Shaw joins host Jason Meserve to give their unique slant on the news of the week. Check it out and let us know what you think. Click here to listen.
Today on Layer 8, where we ask, “OK, who wants to blog for Microsoft?”:
Europe opens video game detox clinic; sys admin’s logic bomb trashes employer’s network; feds research data-mining social networking sites; 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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