This Week on NetworkWorld.com, 10/03/05

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) Next-gen net seen at a crossroads

2) For wireless sensor nets, reality sets in

3) Registry proves critics wrong

4) Nortel’s uphill battle

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: NetWare and Iomega REV drive

6) Network World Radio: Locking down USB ports

7) Review: Sun N2120V content switch

8) Tech Update: High-speed TCP eases LAN congestion

9) Managing remote users

10) Microsoft at 30 moves toward services

11) Radware bolsters net services

12) Trio of vendors tout Windows-based Treo

13) Putting printers in their place

14) WAN acceleration gear grows up

15) Cisco pushes new security software

16) Longhorn Server taking shape

17) Microsoft airs back-up, recovery tools

18) Spending growth modest for 2006

19) Verizon offers peek at its network service road map

20) Report: FAA security doesn’t fly

21) Storage start-up keeps tabs on capacity needs

22) Zenprise debuts with Exchange management software

23) Altiris virtualizes desktop applications

24) CTIA: IT and wireless remain apart

25) Case study: Westinghouse tightens security

26) Start-up targets application recovery

Editor’s note: Ever find dead animals in a switching closet? Had a user give you some gray hairs by doing something to take down the network? With Halloween coming up, we’re looking for your scariest networking tales. Drop a line to News Editor Bob Brown at bbrown@nww.com. And tell him I say “boo!”agaffin@nww.com

     — Adam Gaffin, executive editor, online,

1) Next-gen net seen at a crossroads

There will be one network someday. But today, there’s considerable debate on what that next-generation network will be – an outgrowth of the public switched telephone network or the Internet.

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2) For wireless sensor nets, reality sets in

The starry-eyed gave way to the hard-nosed at a conference last week for sellers and buyers of wireless sensor networks.

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3) Registry proves critics wrong

After two years, Do Not Call a ringing success.

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4) Nortel’s uphill battle

Can the staid Canadian network equipment provider checkmate faster, flashier enterprise players?

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5) Nutter’s Help Desk: NetWare and Iomega REV drive

Nutter helps a user trying to get the latter to work with the former.

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6) Network World 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.

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7) Review: Sun N2120V content switch

Sun has entered the crowded content-switching market with a novel twist: Its Sun Secure Application Switch N2120V lets users define multiple switching and routing domains on a single box, and it faces our Clear Choice Test.

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8) Tech Update: High-speed TCP eases LAN congestion

HS-TCP is an update of TCP that reacts better when using large congestion windows on high-bandwidth, high-latency networks.

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9) Managing remote users

Data center consolidation appears to be an ever-increasing strategy for managing remote users, IT managers say, as concerns for data security, reliability and availability of assets continue to pervade enterprise networks.

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10) Microsoft at 30 moves toward services

Windows may have defined Microsoft since its inception, but it will be services, not software, that give the world’s largest software company its claim to fame in the future, according to analysts.

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11) Radware bolsters net services

This week, and in the coming months, Radware is expected to launch a collection of products aimed at helping users handle all aspects of higher-level network services, including application acceleration, security, WAN optimization and traffic-processing offload.

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12) Trio of vendors tout Windows-based Treo

The new Treo smart phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 over Verizon’s wireless network will help both Palm and Microsoft persuade more large companies to purchase mobile devices for their employees, according to executives from the vendors.

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13) Putting printers in their place

IT departments have been hooking up printers to LANs for several years. What’s changing is the willingness of companies to surrender their networked printers to remote technicians at printer vendors and services companies, rather than try to stay on top of their printing needs with a far-flung staff of internal personnel.

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14) WAN acceleration gear grows up

Businesses should expect to face a wide and confusing array of choices when seeking the right WAN-acceleration gear to make transaction times tolerable as they shift from branch office servers to centralized server farms.

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15) Cisco pushes new security software

Cisco last week introduced software products aimed at letting users squash virus and worm traffic at the front door – incoming LAN switch or WAN router ports.

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16) Longhorn Server taking shape

Longhorn Server, due to ship in 2007, has been the translucent entry at the end of Microsoft’s server road map, which includes Release 2 shipment year-end and the high-performance Compute Cluster Edition version next year.

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17) Microsoft airs back-up, recovery tools

Microsoft last week released Data Protection Manager, back-up and recovery software and the newest member of the company’s System Center family of management tools.

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18) Spending growth modest for 2006

Recent surveys show IT budget spending for 2006 will increase over 2005, and industry watchers say while the growth remains slow, a majority of IT buyers expect business to get better in coming months.

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19) Verizon offers peek at its network service road map

Verizon is planning network upgrades that will support new services such as optical VPNs and high-speed home networking as well as reduce data replication among multiple services.

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20) Report: FAA security doesn’t fly

The Federal Aviation Administration lacks security controls for its IT networks and in some cases hasn’t installed software patches that are several years old, according to a report made public last week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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21) Storage start-up keeps tabs on capacity needs

Start-up MonoSphere last week unveiled software that it says outshines existing storage management tools by enabling companies to better gauge how much storage capacity they will need.

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22) Zenprise debuts with Exchange management software

Start-up Zenprise last week released its first product, a management platform designed to let users automate the diagnosis and resolution of problems with Exchange.

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23) Altiris virtualizes desktop applications

Altiris this week plans to announce a software application that the company says will help IT managers package and roll out applications to desktops without disrupting the current operating systems.

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24) CTIA: IT and wireless remain apart

Lack of a coherent IT strategy, concerns about security, and a poor understanding of the benefits of wireless technology retards enterprise wireless device rollout

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25) Case study: Westinghouse tightens security

To combat viruses and spyware, Westinghouse Electric has rolled out desktop software that watches for suspicious code activity and blocks it based on behavior.

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26) Start-up targets application recovery

Start-up Illuminator last week introduced software designed to help companies better protect their applications.

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