This Week on NetworkWorld.com, 08/08/05

1) Cisco covets anti-spam role 2) Investors target systems management 3) A Wider Net: Life’s rich in telecom… 4) Future-proof your network 5) How to prevent pharming 6) Test: QCD’s InterStructures plug-ins mind the OS gap 7) Technology Update: Classifying packets in a single pass 8) Management Strategies: IP intellec 9) Microsoft tunes SMB licensing 10) Sprint’s devotion to wireless raises questions 11) City finds big savings in Linux 12) Appliances replace DNS, DHCP software 13) Sun grows open source offerings 14) Start-ups reinforce storage intelligence 15) Nutter’s Help Desk: Windows 2003 DNS servers 16) Test shows VoIP lagging in quality 17) Ebbers’ sentence a strong deterrent 18) Start-up takes aim at low-cost security offerings 19) Demo shows ID specs can coexist 20) Tightening video integration with Microsoft 21) Industry looks to tackle spyware 22) Riverbed keeps remote offices up 23) Cisco speaks apps language 24) Microsoft bolsters auto application software 25) HP pumps up ID management suite 26) Netli touts faster Web services 27) Start-up adds continuous data protection software 28) Network World Radio: Moonlighting musicians

1) Questions dog Cisco routers

2) New York courts find security in IP video

3) Mooching Wi-Fi: Debate over legality, ethics

4) IT staff shortage looming

5) Network World Radio: ITIL realities

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Desktop, laptop, wireless router security

7) Tech Update: DKIM fights phishing and e-mail forgery

8) Management Strategies: Unexpected carrier choices

9) No slowdown in software investing

10) Carrier boundaries challenge MPLS VPNs

11) Builder relies on wireless as key tool

12) Bringing LAN-like file delivery to WANs

13) IBM extends portal to Big Iron

14) FCC nixes DSL sharing rules for Bells

15) Longhorn Server beta also out to testers

16) LinuxWorld to highlight enterprise role

17) IM vendor embraces AOL, Microsoft

18) Unclear costs dampen IPv6 migration

19) 3Com CTO spells out strategy

20) EMC refreshes Clariion storage line

21) VPN gateway fills hole for Krispy Kreme

22) McAfee, Sygate add USB blocking

23) Vonage, wireless carrier offer last-mile bypass

24) WebEx acquires conferencing rival

25) Open source rating system debuts

1) Questions dog Cisco routers

Heavy fallout continues on several fronts from a security researcher’s recent disclosure that unpatched Cisco routers can be subverted by buffer-overflow attacks and shell-code exploits.

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2) New York courts find security in IP video

The New York State Unified Court System recently put the finishing touches on a network of more than 350 IP video surveillance cameras. These network-attached eyeballs record every minute of every day in all New York court facilities statewide and link to a multi-terabyte storage system, giving court security officials a powerful tool to monitor and protect their facilities.

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3) Mooching Wi-Fi: Debate over legality, ethics

Depending on your viewpoint, Smith was stealing, mooching, hijacking, sharing, borrowing or just using the homeowner’s Internet connection. As we learned in interviews with Wi-Fi users and others, thinking on this subject is continually changing.

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4) IT staff shortage looming

Outsourcing. Automation. Downsizing. The industry has been awash in unemployed IT pros. But experts are now predicting an IT staffing crunch is just around the corner, and the implications for U.S. technology innovation are sobering.

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5) Network World Radio: ITIL realities

This week, Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie chats with Michele Hudnall, director of service management at software vendor Managed Objects, about the realities of ITIL. Listen in.

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6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Desktop, laptop, wireless router security

Ron Nutter helps a user figure out if his desktop can be hacked when using a cable connection through a router.

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7) Tech Update: DKIM fights phishing and e-mail forgery

DomainKeys Identified Mail is an e-mail authentication proposal that strengthens user protection from e-mail forgery, and increases accountability for spam and phishing scams.

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8) Management Strategies: Unexpected carrier choices

A few companies have found that lesser-known service providers offer cost savings, quicker deployment.

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9) No slowdown in software investing

While network and telecom start-ups this year are beginning to see some renewed interest from investors, the software sector continues to attract the most funding, particularly those companies with products having anything to do with security, according to a quarterly venture-capital survey. Read our report and browse four quarters of survey data.

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10) Carrier boundaries challenge MPLS VPNs

Need for an MPLS interconnect arises to ensure service reach, consistency.

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11) Builder relies on wireless as key tool

Over the roar of belching diesels and the hiss of cutting torches, a worker wearing the distinctive robin’s egg blue hard hat of California builder Rudolph and Sletten taps on a Tablet PC to view a CAD drawing on a remote server.

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12) Bringing LAN-like file delivery to WANs

WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip traffic caused by opening and closing files. CIFS and NFS were designed to work in LAN environments where latency is low.

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13) IBM extends portal to Big Iron

IBM is looking to broaden the reach of its WebSphere Portal. A recent upgrade made the 4-year-old software available for the first time on IBM’s zSeries mainframe and iSeries midmarket servers, a move IBM hopes will spur customer interest in deploying portal software on platforms for which it has previously not been widely available.

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14) FCC nixes DSL sharing rules for Bells

The FCC voted Friday to end regulations requiring incumbent telecommunications carriers to share their DSL broadband connections with competitors.

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15) Longhorn Server beta also out to testers

Lost amid the recent fanfare around the unveiling of Microsoft’s Vista client operating system, the company also shipped the first beta of its next-generation server software to a select group of testers.

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16) LinuxWorld to highlight enterprise role

Novell, HP among vendors planning announcements as show kicks off in San Francisco.

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17) IM vendor embraces AOL, Microsoft

Instant messaging server vendor Antepo plans to add integration with AOL’s Instant Messenger service and the newest versions of Microsoft’s IM platform when it releases the next edition of its software later this month.

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18) Unclear costs dampen IPv6 migration

The dearth of information regarding IPv6 migration costs, combined with the fact that many organizations are not sold on the purported benefits offered by the latest version of the Internet Protocol, is making the case for upgrading difficult to argue.

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19) 3Com CTO spells out strategy

Marc Willebeek-LeMair talks about from the CTO post of a former start-up with 105 employees and $5 million in sales to a $700 million company with a workforce 20 times greater.

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20) EMC refreshes Clariion storage line

EMC last week gave its midrange Clariion storage line a face-lift, with an upgraded operating system designed to improve data management and availability, and hardware designed to boost performance.

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21) VPN gateway fills hole for Krispy Kreme

Doughnut-maker’s Web portal was key to the company intranet, extranet.

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22) McAfee, Sygate add USB blocking

Unauthorized use of USB hardware to gain access to information in laptops and servers is a growing concern. With that in mind, security vendors McAfee and Sygate this week are expected to unveil their own approaches to blocking USB hardware access to com

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23) Vonage, wireless carrier offer last-mile bypass

A provider of high-speed wireless service to businesses in several U.S. cities is selling Vonage’s VoIP service along with its data connections.

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24) WebEx acquires conferencing rival

WebEx Communications last week announced it agreed to buy collaboration software developer Intranets.com for $45 million. The deal allows WebEx to take out a rival that had aggressively chased the smaller end of WebEx’s core market, Web conferencing services.

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25) Open source rating system debuts

A university, a start-up and a chip giant are pushing a proposal for a standard model to rate open source software to provide customers with a better sense of the maturity of the more than 100,000 open source projects available today.

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