This Week on NetworkWorld.com, 09/19/05

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) EBay bid shows promise of VoIP

2) Customers buoyed by Microsoft direction

3) Weathering Katrina

4) Latest DemoFall news

5) Network World Radio: Video distribution and RSS

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Network connectivity issues

7) Managed Ethernet hits campus nets

8) Review: Coradiant provides insight on Web performance

9) Security technology targets the LAN

10) Companies check up on IT vendors

11) Oracle’s spree changes CRM landscape

12) Client systems get better management tools

13) Yipes scales Ethernet service

14) Management vendors to push best practices

15) Microsoft looks to secure digital IDs with InfoCard

16) Shavlik adds anti-spyware to lineup

17) Continuous data protection finds supporters

18) Wireless: Volunteers give voice to evacuees

19) Cisco targets SMBs with convergence

20) ConSentry controls ‘Net access

21) Cisco tackles RFID

22) Copper conundrum

23) Quantum, ADIC boost backups

24) Intradyn beefs up ComplianceVault

25) Start-up takes aim at Salesforce.com

Editor’s Note: As you follow the news from the Gulf Coast, have you wondered how the regions’ communications networks are being put back together? Sgt. First Class John Metzler, a member of the Ohio National Guard and a full-time civilian Army employee, landed in Mississippi on Sept. 1 to help restore WAN and e-mail networks in the Gulf Coast. And he’s now blogging his daily work and experiences for us. Follow his posts at http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=blog/232agaffin@nww.com

 — Adam Gaffin, executive editor, online,

1) EBay bid shows promise of VoIP

The $2.6 billion purchase of Skype last week by eBay further cements VoIP as an industry-altering business technology. The deal raises the public profile of VoIP just as Fall VON 2005 opens its doors this week in Boston, where service providers will grapple with what IP voice services they should offer to keep competitive and what equipment they need to support them.DocFinder: 8943

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-von.html?tw

2) Customers buoyed by Microsoft direction

End-users see a glow on horizon of Microsoft’s roadmapDocFinder: 8944

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-microsoft-pdc.html?tw

3) Weathering Katrina

And as temperatures topped 150 degrees inside critical computer and network equipment at Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans, Kurt Induni, the hospital’s network services manager, had a call to make. “We decided after we went down to one generator to shut all critical patient care systems down,” Induni says. “We didn’t want to take more power than we needed. It’s kind of odd to say, but we shut down the patient care systems first to protect them for after the storm was over, when we would need them most.”  We take a look at how three IT organizations in New Orleans got through Katrina.DocFinder: 8945

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-widernet.html?tw

4) DemoFall coverage

You want to stay on the edge? DemoFall is the place where new innovations are unleashed. We’ll have the latest news from this week’s show, comments from our own bloggers and an exclusive DemoFall blog aggregator bringing you notes from even more bloggers at the show.

DocFinder: 8946

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/demofall.html?tw

5) Network World Radio: Video distribution and RSS

We’re joined on the program by Robert Petty, CEO and co-founder of ROO, a company that serves video from multiple content providers through its rootv.com Web site. Petty is here to talk about the challenges of video distribution and how RSS is being used as a solution. Listen in.DocFinder: 8947

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/0919radio.html?tw

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Network connectivity issues

Ron Nutter helps a user with this issue: “We’re having a problem with users losing connectivity to our NetWare 6.0 SP5 server. They lose mapped drives – including access to their home directory, which results in Word shutting down and loss of data.”DocFinder: 8948

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/091905nutter.html?tw

7) Managed Ethernet hits campus nets

As wish lists go, this one didn’t shoot the moon. The Cheltenham School District wanted voice and data connectivity in all its classrooms. The district wanted to make its online grading application more widely available and add an E911 capability that could pinpoint specific classroom numbers in the event of an emergency.DocFinder: 8949

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/091905-education.html?tw

8) Review: Coradiant provides insight on Web performance

Coradiant’s TrueSight 1100 appliance actively monitors actual Web site traffic, giving Web managers a heads-up on problems before their users do.DocFinder: 8950

http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/091905-cordiant-test.html?tw

9) Security technology targets the LAN

User-based LAN access control is a new technology that redefines network admission and access. Made possible by a new breed of high-performance ASICs, emerging ULA-capable LAN security systems sit in a network at the user-access layer or at an aggregation layer, and inspect every packet on every port for security policy compliance and malware.DocFinder: 8951

http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2005/091905techupdate.html?tw

10) Companies check up on IT vendors

United Parcel Service and General Motors delegate formal responsibility for vendor relationship management to ensure successful outcomes.DocFinder: 8952

http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2005/091905man.html?tw

11) Oracle’s spree changes CRM landscape

Oracle’s CRM gamble raises stakes for corporate usersDocFinder: 8953

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-oracle.html?tw

12) Client systems get better management tools

Adding to the management challenge, client systems demand much more than availability monitoring. IT managers must track end-user systems for security, compliance, software license and inventory purposes, among other things. DocFinder: 8954

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-client-management.html?tw

13) Yipes scales Ethernet service

Addition of VPLS designed to enable greater multipoint reach.DocFinder: 8955

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-yipes.html?tw

14) Management vendors to push best practices

Show to highlight products for automating processes, monitoring SLAs and extending ITIL support.DocFinder: 8956

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-itsm.html?tw

15) Microsoft looks to secure digital IDs with InfoCard

Looking to ease the way customers manage their digital identities, Microsoft has begun working to integrate its InfoCard authentication technology with Internet Explorer and is in discussions with the Firefox and Safari browser developers to have them include the technology on their platforms.DocFinder: 8957

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-infocard.html?tw

16) Shavlik adds anti-spyware to lineup

Shavlik Technologies, long known for patch management software, is adding anti-spyware capabilities to its platform.DocFinder: 8958

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-shavlik.html?tw

17) Continuous data protection finds supporters

Demand for continuous data protection is growing as more businesses realize they not only need to back up the data on their networks as changes are made but also be able to recover that data quickly. Nearly every storage vendor has acknowledged developing a continuous or near-continuous data protection scheme for retrieving even the most recently saved data.DocFinder: 8959

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-cdp.html?tw

18) Wireless: Volunteers give voice to evacuees

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a volunteer group of network and wireless experts has moved from outfitting small northeastern Louisiana shelters with wireless Internet access and VoIP phones to preparing a desperately needed 45M bit/sec wireless pipe for the entire relief effort in devastated Bay Saint Louis, Miss.DocFinder: 8960

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-katrina-wireless.html?tw

19) Cisco targets SMBs with convergence

Cisco this week is expected to launch bundled IP voice and switching gear for small and midsize businesses looking to roll out converged networks quickly and at a low cost.DocFinder: 8961

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-cisco-voice.html?tw

20) ConSentry controls ‘Net access

ConSentry is shipping a security box that enforces policies on LANs without requiring customers to upgrade switches, which they must do if buying into comprehensive plans from some large network vendors.DocFinder: 8962

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-consentry.html?tw

21) Cisco tackles RFID

Cisco last week took the first step in building into its network hardware new software that will help users more easily handle RFID traffic.DocFinder: 8963

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-cisco-rfid.html?tw

22) Copper conundrum

LAN cabling experts and vendors say that organizations installing copper cabling in data centers should investigate new unshielded twisted-pair products that can support future high-bandwidth technologies such as 10G Ethernet.DocFinder: 8964

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-cabling.html?tw

23) Quantum, ADIC boost backups

Quantum and ADIC announced separately last week products designed to let customers use a mix of tape cartridges to archive data and support information life-cycle management.DocFinder: 8965

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-storage-tape.html?tw

24) Intradyn beefs up ComplianceVault

Plus: Permabit picks up new funding; Quest unwraps Exchange storage and compliance wares; Sun to roll out new UltraSparc servers.DocFinder: 8966

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905ecbriefs.html?tw

25) Start-up takes aim at Salesforce.com

A start-up that delivers applications over the Web, iRadeon aims to beat Salesforce.com at its own game by bringing a lower-cost, easy-to-deploy alternative to the CRM software market – and it’s doing it with a twist: open source.DocFinder: 8967

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091905-iradeon.html?tw