* Cisco, Microsoft demo network security cooperation * Cisco banks on 'quad play' for sustained growth * Q&A: Winner of Silicon Valley's giant Wi-Fi deal isn't fazed by size of net * IBM offers smart software distribution product * Cool Tools Video: You can't beat USB * Today on Layer 8
News podcast: Network World 360
This week we look at how banks are trying to hit a federal security deadline, examine Google Apps for Your Domain, check in on how service-centric approaches to infrastructure management are doing, look at Trapeze Networks’ new version of its wireless LAN software, and see why many first responders don’t have the wireless networks they should, even five years after 9/11. (10:49) Listen now.
Cisco, Microsoft demo network security cooperation
It has taken nearly two years, but Microsoft and Cisco are finally ready to demonstrate how their network access security products will work together. Click here for details.
Cisco banks on ‘quad play’ for sustained growth
Cisco CEO John Chambers Wednesday stoked the network vendor’s love affair with IT investors by pointing to the company’s unified communications strategy and broad product portfolio as a way to sustain growth over the long term. Click here for more.
Q&A: Winner of Silicon Valley’s giant Wi-Fi deal isn’t fazed by size of net
The company that will provision and run the 1,500 square-mile wireless mesh network in Silicon Valley that was announced this week is an almost unknown, privately held network operator based in Grand Haven, Mich. Azulstar Networks has been operating in the United States for just three years. Its founder and CEO is a 34-year-old former Intel engineer, Tyler van Houwelingen. In the Silicon Valley deal, Azulstar will operate the network, IBM will be the main integrator and Cisco will provide the equipment. Van Houwelingen spoke this week to Network World Senior Editor John Cox about the giant deal. Click here for the full interview.
IBM offers smart software distribution product
IBM Thursday announced a new version of its software distribution and provisioning product that promises to make rolling out new applications and upgrading existing systems less of a burden on IT staff. Click here for more.
Cool Tools Video: You can’t beat USB
Keith takes a look at the latest in USB flash drives, including one with an anti-spyware tool installed and another with AES encryption.
Buzzblog
On vacation… but a lineup of summer reruns is counting down the Top 10 Most-Read Buzzblog Items of All-Time (which means since Feb. 1).
Today on Layer 8, now powered by a dual-core processor:
Budweiser to launch Web TV network; Google opens musty news archive; old London lady denied cell phone; and Steve Irwin’s death hits Aussie servers hard; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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