Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
From the Front Page
AT&T targets VoIP, wireless services
AT&T’s development road map for the next year includes new and enhanced offerings around VoIP, wireless, security and Web hosting, company officials said last week.
Seven ways to boost application performance
When it comes to boosting application performance, it’s about a lot more than just the bandwidth.
In depth
Our annual You Issue features the 2006 Salary Survey (pay up, brutal hours down); a look at three innovative IT guys at The First Tee, Laguna Seca Raceway and Carnegie Mellon University’s Data Center Observatory; and asks the question, “What would you do?” for three different situations.
Tech Update: PCI Express gains I/O virtualization
The PCI Express bus has emerged as an efficient and cost-effective platform for networking applications.
Audio/ITVideo
We feature Frank Basso, head of IT at Laguna Seca Raceway in California. Why does a racetrack need modern wireless technology?
We feature Raul Ramos, Director of IT at the First Tee, an organization that teaches life’s fundamentals through the game of golf.
We feature Greg Ganger, director of the Data Center Observatory at Carnegie Mellon University. How does he balance research on data center issues and teaching of his favorite subject (storage)?
Network security is more than just WHO is on the network, you also need to know WHAT is connected and from where, says Infoblox founder Stuart Bailey, this week’s guest on Network World’s Hot Seat.
Twisted Pair: Underpaid and overworked
On a vacation-edition of Twisted Pair, Keith and Jason discuss a recent survey that says 40% of employees think they’re underpaid; why people don’t want to telecommute; four new Skype Wi-Fi phones due out for Christmas; and go over the latest security news from Oracle.
Check out our new weekly audio podcast Network World 360, where Jeff Caruso relays the top news of the week and talks to reporters for the story behind the story.
From the blogs
BuzzBlog looks a condo association’s plan to require secured home wireless networks. James Gaskin says, Thanks a lot, Microsoft. Adam Gaffin blogs about the security professional’s worst nightmare. The Alpha Doggs look at a Purdue professor’s auto-aiming network antenna. Mark Gibbs gives an example of How Not to Unsubscribe from a newsletter. Forget work for a minute and remember the days of summer camp.
How to
Nutter’s Help Desk: Bogon bogosity – Dealing with a bogon issue
For several weeks now, several employees at my company and some of our customers have been reporting problems with getting access to our Web sites and e-mail. The only common thread is that they all use the same ISP, a local cable internet provider by the name of Insight. No other customers or employees have reported this same problem with any other ISP.
More news
Start-up targets network access
Start-up Apere this week plans to introduce a LAN-based access-control appliance for keeping track of users’ network access rights and blocking unauthorized attempts to gain access to resources.
Six storage companies to watch
The number of enterprise network-oriented start-ups has been dwindling, though storage is one segment of the industry where plenty of newcomers have popped up and continue to emerge.
AOL launches AIM Pro for business users
AOL launched a new, free, instant messaging application for business users on Wednesday. AIM Pro Professional Edition integrates with Microsoft Outlook corporate directories and calendars, encrypts messages and scans them for viruses, and offers quick access to business conferencing services from WebEx Communications, the company said.
Salesforce.com connects with SAP
Salesforce.com last week unveiled the 20th generation of its hosted CRM software and announced a connector integrating its CRM software-as-a-service with SAP’s R/3 ERP applications.
Compliance system geared to finance
The market for products that manage documents for compliance purposes is getting crowded, but newcomer Mathon Systems will attempt to differentiate itself by focusing on financial firms and by processing unstructured data in real time.
Analyzing Microsoft-Nortel VoIP deal
Microsoft and Nortel can learn much from each other, users and analyst say, as the companies ally themselves to develop unified communications technology. And they’d better learn fast.
XG Technology pushes new form of wireless VoIP
New low-power, long-reach wireless technology could support metropolitan VoIP services within a year, improving mobility on campuses and within 18 miles of base stations.
Start-up testing auto-aiming antenna for wireless nets
A group of Purdue University professors has launched a start-up to create an auto-aiming wireless antenna system that reliably links users on vehicles and boats to the Internet.
Vyatta to take on Cisco and Juniper
Open source router start-up Vyatta this week is expected to launch Version 1.0 of its Open Flexible Router, a software package designed to run on commodity PC hardware, but match the WAN routing and security performance of commercial offerings from Cisco, Juniper and others.
Force10 blade brings SONET support
Force10 Networks this week is expected to launch its first packet-over-SONET blade, aimed at large companies that need to connect to legacy WAN infrastructures but want to avoid deploying stand-alone SONET gear at the network edge.
Start-up offers free management tool
A start-up intends to shake up the IT management market for small to midsize businesses by making its monitoring software available for free.
Entrust acquires Business Signatures for $50 million
Entrust Thursday announced it has acquired Business Signatures, the privately held Redwood City, Calif., vendor of the eFraud Detector anti-fraud detection software used primarily in online banking, for $50 million in cash.
Black Hat: Cisco to be under scrutiny again
Cisco’s products will again come under scrutiny again at this year’s Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las Vegas.
