* How to destroy a hard drive in five seconds * Q&A: Nortel's CTO targets Cisco * User pressure spurs Microsoft to revise antipiracy program * Symantec CEO: Microsoft has 'long way to go' * New Data Center: Making apps behave on the network * 10 cutting-edge network research projects you should know about * Today on Layer 8
How to destroy a hard drive in five seconds
You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency. There is no time to delete the files, and the drives are in heavy-duty steel cases so that they are difficult to destroy. You have a few minutes before someone finds you, grabs the drives, and searches them for even the smallest trace of useful data. What would you do? Click here for one solution.
Q&A: Nortel’s CTO targets Cisco
John Roese becomes CTO at Nortel Wednesday, following his appointment to the post last week. Roese, 35, will lead more than 12,000 engineers and developers in the Nortel R&D headquarters in Ottawa and will be responsible for the company’s R&D strategy and execution. Read the full interview.
User pressure spurs Microsoft to revise antipiracy program
Responding to pressure from irked Windows users, Microsoft on Tuesday released an updated version of its antipiracy program that changes the frequency with which the program checks for pirated or counterfeit copies of its client operating system. Click here for more.
Symantec CEO: Microsoft has ‘long way to go’
Symantec CEO John Thompson has had a bumpy ride over this past year. He closed one of the largest software company acquisitions in history – last year’s $10.2 billion purchase of Veritas – and has been dealing with executive departures and a company reorganization. But perhaps the most serious disruption of all has come from a formidable new competitor into the company’s security software business: Microsoft. Click here for more.
New Data Center: Making apps behave on the network
Great application performance takes layers upon layers of tools, say network execs like Bruce Meyer of ProMedica Health System. Here’s how they’re doing it.
10 cutting-edge network research projects you should know about
We kicked off an effort at the start of this year to look more closely at network research happening at university and other labs, figuring that while the technologies being worked on won’t necessarily find their way into your network immediately, they might give you something to consider in making longer-term plans. Click here to see our pick of the 10 most interesting projects.
Today on Layer 8, do you know where your iPizzle is?:
What drives your collecting obsession; NBC = video hypocrite; is technology aiding our narcissism?; and what does “iPod in the pants” mean?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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