This Week: New Lotus boss sailing tricky seas, 11/14/05

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) New Lotus boss sailing tricky seas

2) CA users to eyeball Unicenter upgrade

3) Telling tales of the tape

4) Cool Yule Tools Holiday Gift Guide

5) IT Borderlands’ forbidden phrase: Powered by

6) Coming up: More SMB coverage

7) Case study: Nationwide formalizes capacity management

8) Telecom reform bill meets opposition

9) BMC CTO talks IT management

10) Wireless products gravitate to mesh

11) Start-ups look to horn in on net control

12) Conference to put spotlight on compliance

13) Start-up tackles SOA management

14) Sniffer gets enterprise-scale upgrade

15) But wait, there’s more!

1) New Lotus boss sailing tricky seas

New Lotus chief preparing to lead a Notes/Domino rebirth

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2) CA users to eyeball Unicenter upgrade

Computer Associates this week is set to share management and security product plans with customers eager to hear which products the vendor will develop and which it may leave behind.

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3) Telling tales of the tape

You’re looking to upgrade to new storage tapes or disks and figure you might try to defray costs by getting a few bucks back for your old tapes. But those who have bought or sold used tapes warn that doing so can put your confidential data at risk.

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4) Cool Yule Tools Holiday Gift Guide

We have the lowdown on more than 100 products you may want under your tree – or on your home or corporate net – this holiday season.

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5) IT Borderlands’ forbidden phrase: ‘Powered by’

It’s one thing to say your Web site is “powered by Apache.” But when Cisco runs an ad with a picture of a baby “powered by Cisco,” Ken Fasimpaur has to put his foot (powered by Florsheim?) down.

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6) Coming up: More SMB coverage

James Gaskin, author of our Small Business Tech column, is heading up our effort to bolster our SMB coverage. He’ll be blogging and finding the key SMB news and resources you need. Let him know what you’d like to see in a revamped SMB research center  at readers@gaskin.com – and check out our SMB page.

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7) Case study: Nationwide formalizes capacity management

An IT insider tells how he helped the insurer Nationwide formalize capacity management.

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8) Telecom reform bill meets opposition

Republican draft legislation that would largely deregulate IP-based services such as broadband video favors giant incumbent telecommunications carriers over other competitors, complained some witnesses and lawmakers during a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday.

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9) BMC CTO talks IT management

BMC Software CTO Tom Bishop, formerly CTO of Tivoli Software, talks about his plans and directions for the company. Plus, we have exclusive online audio from our interview.

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10) Wireless products gravitate to mesh

Cisco and a group of other vendors are releasing mesh network products based on the 802.11 wireless LAN standard.

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11) Start-ups look to horn in on net control

LAN security appliances enforce policies at access switches.

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12) Conference to put spotlight on compliance

As compliance responsibilities fall more in the laps of security professionals, vendors are responding with products and services designed to make understanding and reporting on risk and compliance more accessible.

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13) Start-up tackles SOA management

Start-up TrueBaseline this week is expected to debut its first product, which is aimed at helping companies keep IT resources and business processes in shape to comply with myriad regulatory, competitive and operational requirements.

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14) Sniffer gets enterprise-scale upgrade

Network General last week uncrated product enhancements that make it possible to centrally manage distributed copies of its popular Sniffer protocol-analysis tools.

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15) But wait, there’s more!

You don’t think that’s all we wrote for this week, hmm? Check out our This Week page for: Ozzie memo highlights Microsoft’s moves; Atempo adds encryption to data manager; Big strides for small net firms; Cognitive radio enhances WLANs; Cisco service targets small business; CipherTrust appliance protects corporate resources; U.S. pitches wireless highway safety plan; At long last Microsoft ships database, development tools; Linux promoted for mobile phones; NetIQ adds monitoring, auditing to directory tools; Office systems undergoing big changes; Vendor upgrades mail-filtering software; Broadwing beefs up managed security; XO spins off wireline to go wireless; Good puts security management on the air; Poll cites converged-IP security concern; Microsoft targets spyware; Sun has a lot riding on UltraSPARC T1 chip.

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