NetFlash: Google and NASA plan R&D partnership

When I first read this headline, my first thought was, why not? Why not, indeed? Google seems on track to take over the world, so it only makes sense that it would look ahead to carving up the galaxy with NASA. Heck, Vint Cerf is a Google man now, and he’s been talking – in public, no less, and with a straight face – about an interplanetary Internet for years. But it turns out you don’t have to look as far as outer space; there is something terrestrial that NASA has and that Google desperately needs. Google and NASA plan R&D partnership http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/092905-google-nasa.html?net&story=092905-google-nasa

When I first read this headline, my first thought was, why not? Why not, indeed? Google seems on track to take over the world, so it only makes sense that it would look ahead to carving up the galaxy with NASA. Heck, Vint Cerf is a Google man now, and he’s been talking – in public, no less, and with a straight face – about an interplanetary Internet for years. But it turns out you don’t have to look as far as outer space; there is something terrestrial that NASA has and that Google desperately needs.

Google and NASA plan R&D partnership

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/092905-google-nasa.html?net&story=092905-google-nasa

NGN: Skeptics view IMS as way for carriers to control users

The IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS, sounds innocuous enough. It’s a way for carriers to realize the dream of converged voice, video and data over wired or wireless IP networks. Or is it a mechanism for carriers to control their customers and what they access?

http://www.networkworld.com/edge/news/2005/092805-ims-ngn.html?net&story=092805-ims-ngn

Cisco rolls out data center architecture

Cisco Wednesday released a computer networking and virtualization architecture it calls VFrame. The architecture combines a set of InfiniBand-based server fabric switches with the VFrame virtualization software suite. 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/092805-cisco-vframe.html?net&story=092805-cisco-vframe

Microsoft releases backup, recovery software

Microsoft Tuesday released Data Protection Manager, backup and recovery software and the newest member of the company’s System Center family of management tools.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/092805-microsoft-backup.html?net&story=092805-microsoft-backup

Radio: Locking down USB ports

This week we talk with Vladimir Chernavsky, CEO of Smartline, about his company’s DeviceLock software that can limit the usability of USB ports on a Windows machine, helping keep information from walking out the door on portable storage devices. Listen in:

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/0926radio.html?net&story=0926radio

Today on Layer 8, now scratch-free:

MIT intros $100 laptop for kids; RFID used to tag Katrina dead; Apple admits nano flaws – kinda; and British TV drama lets viewers choose the plot via texting; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8