Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
Editor’s Note
Next week, we go live with completely revamped and expanded buyer’s guides – online tools that will help you make the right choice when considering enterprise products. We’ll have more about them next week, naturally, but for now, Signature Series Editor Beth Schultz talks about the first batch of security buyer’s guides. And you can get a preview.
— Adam Gaffin, executive editor, online, agaffin@nww.com.
From the front page of Network World
Wireless network companies to watch
There are many emerging wireless technologies and companies, but few of them will actually affect corporate networks. (No, being able to watch last night’s episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’ on your smart-phone is not an enterprise application.)
An Rx for security
Passwords for network security are out and faces are in at ParadigmHealth. The Upper Saddle River, N.J., provider of care to seriously ill patients is adopting a Web-based authentication method that requires doctors, nurses and other users to remember images of nine faces to gain access to patient records through ParadigmHealth’s Web portal.
In depth
Blades try to shake off bad-boy image
First-generation products were a bust, but vendors are coming back with improved models. This may be the year that blade servers finally cast off their bad rap. Introduced in 2001, blade servers were supposed to change the computing landscape, but questions about reliability, power consumption and heat output put a damper on adoption.
P1619 safeguards data at rest
For the past few years, banking, credit and retail industries have been rocked by one massive data theft after another. The common thread: The data was not encrypted and thus was available to criminals looking to steal private identity and financial info
Mergers, acquisitions and especially integrations have been a way of life at TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, the company I have called home for nearly seven years. Our approach to the integration process after a merger has become standardized, but each deal brings its own set of challenges.
ITVideo
The good and bad of the ‘Net
Scott Bradner, an Internet insider, talks about the biggest opportunities on the Web (hint: you’re it) and the biggest threats (hint: the carriers and sloppy data owners).
Blogs and forums
Want to know more about net neutrality? Jump into our net neutrality debate. James Gaskin discusses what he calls the Bully Software Alliance. Mark Gibbs takes on the FCC. Ken Fasimpaur complains about a Web-based accounting service that doesn’t play nicely with Firefox. Sure, you’re busy, but check out our timekillers when you need a break.
How to
When wireless routers keep failing
Ron Nutter helps a user figure out why all the wireless routers stop working.
No waste in Kimberly-Clark VoIP plans
The VoIP plan at Kimberly-Clark is to consolidate voice traffic for more than 200 sites into three data centers while retrofitting existing Avaya PBXs with gear that will turn the devices into digital/VoIP gateways.
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.
Making headway on ID management
Rolling out a complete identity management system is virtually impossible today, given the immature state of tools, frameworks and standards available. That doesn’t mean you can’t tackle discrete pieces of the identity management puzzle, however, with projects that target single sign-on, two-factor authentication, automated provisioning or role-based access control.
Business execs share IT lessons
FedEx three years ago launched a sweeping IT transformation project based on a key insight by CIO Rob Carter. He amassed data and created a bewildering “spaghetti chart” that showed how a spate of acquisitions was creating an ever more complex and costly IT infrastructure.
HP to roll out new management software
HP this week is set to announce software that supports what-if modeling scenarios that the company says will enable buyers to determine how changes made to staff and infrastructure resources will affect business service levels.
Nortel to dig into branch-office nets
Nortel set to dig into branch-office networks
SOX may push public firms to go private
The cost to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act fell slightly in 2005 – but not enough to deter some public companies from going private.
Hurricanes to test disaster recovery
With Tropical Storm Alberto threatening to damage parts of Florida last week, much attention at Gartner’s Storage Summit turned to the subjects of disaster recovery and business continuity.
Users make headway in identity management
Rolling out a complete identity management system is virtually impossible today, given the immature state of the tools, frameworks and standards available. That doesn’t mean you can’t tackle discrete pieces of the identity management puzzle, however, with projects that target single sign-on, two-factor authentication, automated provisioning or role-based access control.
NetApp targets storage for high-performance computing
Network Appliance Monday introduced a new operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems.
Even more
Our This Week page will also link you to: Microsoft’s client identity technology now Windows CardSpace; Airbus flies on Web services; ‘Net pioneers sound security alarm over VoIP wiretaps; Microsoft to lose Gates’ star power; Exchange 2007 will shake up messaging; McAfee sets e-commerce boost for SiteAdvisor; Start-up eyes open source Web services; Verizon ups business DSL speed in 16 states.
