Face-off: Is ‘security in the cloud’ the way to go? 02/13/06
Brad Miller, CEO of Perimeter Internetworking, argues in favor of ‘security in the cloud,’ while Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, argues that security in the cloud should not replace more-traditional network and desktop security.
Nutter’s Help Desk: Getting a handle on mystery bandwidth use, 02/13/06
We have been noticing for several weeks that we are using most of our bandwidth for no apparent reason. We use MRTG to watch which buildings on our campus are using bandwidth and in some cases are able to monitor to the port level in buildings. Some …
Kobielus: SOA platform vendors will own ESB market, 02/13/06
By the end of this decade, ESB functionality will be common-denominator functionality implemented on all platforms, leveraging the industry’s common denominator interoperability stack: the WS-* stack. As ESB functionality becomes ubiquitous in …
Kaplan: Downsizing outsourcing, 02/13/06
Large-scale outsourcing isn’t going to go away, but enterprise business and IT leaders no longer need to make big bets on long-term agreements to achieve their business objectives. Instead, they can now enlist more-narrowly focused managed services …
Cool Tools: Robotic dinosaur wows crowd at Demo 2006, 02/13/06
Pleo, the robotic dinosaur, and much more, made its debut at last week’s Demo ’06 show in Phoenix.
Johnson: Read into the FCC’s tiebreaker, 02/13/06
If new FCC commissioner and former telecom lobbyist Robert McDowell views his primary clients as the telcos, Vonage had better watch out. If he views his clients as telecom consumers – whether individuals or enterprises – we could be in for a really …
Editorial: The IP telecom wave, 02/13/06
As the key VoIP equipment supplier to the carriers leading the VoIP charge, Sonus Networks has both an enviable market position and an interesting perspective on the migration to the world of packetized voice.
‘Net Buzz: A request: Please check out Buzzblog, 02/13/06
There’s an axiom among political campaign professionals that goes like this: Whenever a candidate is speaking to potential voters – be it a TV commercial, door-to-door glad-handing or a televised debate – make sure that he doesn’t forget to explicitly …
Bradner: An iPod as a legislative force, 02/13/06
Sen. Ted Stevens’ experience with his new iPod clearly sensitized him to the user end of this discussion on the broadcast flag, and that may make a real difference in the outcome. That is good news for consumers and maybe not so good news for the RIAA.
Backspin: A scoring system for telephone support, 02/13/06
Reader Bob Hayes wrote a while ago with an example of a scoring system he uses to rate support calls, so I thought I’d take a shot at my own system. At the start of each call the company gets zero points. Then add and subtract points as follows …
Dr. Internet: Getting Eclipse to output reports in PDF, 02/13/06
We read your Dec. 19 story on the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools. We downloaded the latest release and found that the PDF-generation feature you described (and what we were most interested in) seems to be missing. Things seem to …
Gearhead: NetScanTools Pro: A networking Swiss Army knife, 02/13/06
NSTP is remarkable. In one interface you get network setup and configuration exploration functions, security testing services, information-gathering tools, and network and service diagnostics. Northwest positions the software for general network …
