This Week: Blockbuster video deal for Cisco and more, 11/21/05

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) Blockbuster video deal for Cisco

2) Microsoft turning toward an all 64-bit world

3) Groundbreaking network projects: Enterprise All-Stars 2005

4) Network World ITVideo: SOA and Cool Yule Tools

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Windows XP and 98 on the same box?

6) Help choose Gibbs’s Golden Turkey awards

7) WSDM spurs management integration

8) 3Com device powers up security

9) AppIQ founder sold on HP

10) Juniper, others make security buyouts

11) Mesh nets offer challenges

12) New IBM unit targets data management

13) Open source IP PBXs make strides, have far to go

14) Oracle bulks up on identity software

15) Cisco expands WLAN product line

16) But wait, there’s more!

1) Blockbuster video deal for Cisco

The planned takeover of the cable TV set-top box giant paves the way for Cisco to make home entertainment and video its next $1 billion-a-year Advanced Technology opportunity.

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2) Microsoft turning toward an all 64-bit world

Microsoft is hitching its software wagon to 64 bit and its promise of a more robust and powerful computing platform. The platform, however, comes with special design considerations that differ from 32-bit platforms, especially related to firmware, hard disk partitions and device drivers.

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3) Groundbreaking network projects: Enterprise All-Stars 2005

Get the scope, cost, ROI and more behind 50 companies’ groundbreaking network projects spanning education, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and other markets.

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4) Network World ITVideo: SOA and Cool Yule Tools

It’s a twofer this week. Watch as Jim Ricotta, president and CEO of DataPower, joins John Gallant to talk about services oriented architecture and Web services and how his company, which was recent acquired by IBM, can help deal with this application-level data on the network. Over on Cool Tools, Chief Elf Keith Shaw shows you the hottest Christmas gadgets, the ones you know you want to give – and get.

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5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Windows XP and 98 on the same box?

Ron Nutter helps a user who actually has a reason to want to be able to boot up in either of these Windows versions.

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6) Help choose Gibbs’s Golden Turkey awards

Columnist Mark Gibbs has come up with a buffet of eight “companies or entities that don’t, won’t or can’t come to grips with reality, maturity, ethical behavior or social responsibility because of their blindness, self-imposed ignorance, thinly veiled political agenda, rapaciousness and greed, or blatant desire to return us to the Dark Ages.”  Help choose one – vote and discuss.

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7) WSDM spurs management integration

Web Services Distributed Management: Management Using Web Services 1.0 allows management software from different vendors to interoperate more easily, enabling end-to-end and even cross-enterprise management.

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8) 3Com device powers up security

3Com last week launched a multifunction security device that combines intrusion detection, firewall, VPN and WAN routing features in one box.

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9) AppIQ founder sold on HP

AppIQ founder Ash Ashutosh on the future with HP: “We see this as a huge storage- and server-management partnership.”

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10) Juniper, others make security buyouts

Network hardware companies continue to snap up technology they can use to make security a standard feature in the switches and routers that comprise the basic network plumbing inside businesses.

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11) Mesh nets offer challenges

Though a late entry, Cisco’s first wireless LAN mesh product will throw fuel on an already hot market.

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12) New IBM unit targets data management

IBM’s $15 billion software division last week unveiled a newly formed business unit, made an acquisition and gave a sneak peek at an upcoming database product.

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13) Open source IP PBXs make strides, have far to go

Purveyors of inexpensive open source IP PBXs last are upgrading their software to include better integration with traditional circuit-switched phone networks and providing an overarching signaling engine, which could encourage larger deployments.

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14) Oracle bulks up on identity software

Oracle last week put the final pieces into place for its identity-management suite. Customers say the task now is integrating all the parts.

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15) Cisco expands WLAN product line

New Cisco products take the next step in helping customers integrate wireless LANs with Cisco wired network gear and extending them outdoors.

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16) But wait, there’s more!

Also on our This Week page: SAP CEO faces many challenges; GM to roll out intelligent car alternative; Users applaud CA’s integration plans; Gartner: Buyouts highlight what’s hot in net security; Can open source still save Novell?; Today’s security officers wear many hats; Enterasys sells, goes private; Management vendor targets shared folders; Microsoft, others eye supercomputing; Sun, Lucent tout encrypted e-mail service; U.S., EU remain at odds over ‘Net governance; Cisco moves to integrate WLANs with wired networks ; McAfee unveils anti-spyware wares.

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