This Week: Hospitals’ patch fears on the wane

1) Hospitals’ patch fears on the wane 2) Online retailers ready for holiday crush 3) Take our advice: Top tips for network execs 4) Network World ITVideo: Bit9 in The Hot Seat 5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting a remote office 6) Citigroup controls network resources 7) VoIP scheme gets big backers 8) Lucent gaining momentum behind IMS 9) Start-ups seek to shake up multiprocessor server market 10) Cyberattacks shift to apps, net devices 11) Security still top IT spending priority 12) IT Borderlands: Doing things right online 13) Quest extends Windows-Linux integration 14) Microsoft opening up document format 15) But wait, there’s more!

1) Hospitals’ patch fears on the wane

2) Online retailers ready for holiday crush

3) Take our advice: Top tips for network execs

4) Network World ITVideo: Bit9 in The Hot Seat

5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting a remote office

6) Citigroup controls network resources

7) VoIP scheme gets big backers

8) Lucent gaining momentum behind IMS

9) Start-ups seek to shake up multiprocessor server market

10) Cyberattacks shift to apps, net devices

11) Security still top IT spending priority

12) IT Borderlands: Doing things right online

13) Quest extends Windows-Linux integration

14) Microsoft opening up document format

15) But wait, there’s more!

1) Hospitals’ patch fears on the wane

In the year or so since conflict between hospitals and manufacturers over the security of networked medical devices went public, much has changed for the better.

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2) Online retailers ready for holiday crush

While the Friday after Thanksgiving is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, online retailers are gearing up for heavier traffic beginning today – a day some industry watchers have dubbed ‘Cyber Monday.’

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3) Take our advice: Top tips for network execs

We offer the best tips from net execs, vendors, and industry watchers on tackling emerging and existing technologies, managing vendors and staff, and advancing your network career.

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4) Network World ITVideo: Bit9 in The Hot Seat

Security start-up Bit9 protects enterprise systems by blocking unwanted software on the desktop and server. John Hanratty, Bit9’s co-founder, gets in the Hot Seat to explain his company’s approach to security.

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5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting a remote office

Ron Nutter helps a user who wants to inexpensively connect a small remote office to the main office without running a T-1.

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6) Citigroup controls network resources

How Citigroup tackled network change and configuration management – and won.

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7) VoIP scheme gets big backers

Cisco and Microsoft will support and implement Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) technology, a proposed IETF standard for allowing VoIP calls to traverse firewalls without compromising security. Also, listen in to hear Cisco’s Cullen Jennings explains how ICE works and what its killer application might be – and it’s not straight voice over IP.

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8) Lucent gaining momentum behind IMS

Lucent is riding a new wave of momentum thanks to high-profile convergence contracts and growth on revenue and profit margin over the past year.

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9) Start-ups seek to shake up multiprocessor server market

A new breed of server company is targeting customers unsatisfied with the processing power of x86 system clusters and unwilling to pay steep prices for current proprietary symmetric multiprocessing boxes.

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10) Cyberattacks shift to apps, net devices

After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and software running on Internet servers, hackers have switched their focus to network devices and applications in 2005, according to the new SANS Top 20 vulnerability list. Also, listen in to hear Rohit Dhamankar, project manager for the SANS Top 20, on what’s new on the vulnerabilities list and who is exploiting them.

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11) Security still top IT spending priority

A recent survey of 100 IT executives predicts that IT spending will decrease slightly in 2006 as more businesses worry about global economic conditions, but security software and enterprise IT upgrades remain top concerns, according to Goldman Sachs.

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12) IT Borderlands: Doing things right online

Ken Fasimpaur runs across a vendor support site that really seems to want user feedback. He ponders the miracle this is and wonders what good vendor or e-commerce sites you’ve seen.

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13) Quest extends Windows-Linux integration

Quest Software, which has been building a cross-platform bridge between Linux and Windows systems, is expected to release early next year a tool that lets users monitor the open source operating system from their Microsoft management consoles.

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14) Microsoft opening up document format

Microsoft last week weighed in on the debate over open-document file formats, saying it would seek standardization of the XML formats it is developing for the forthcoming Office 12, as well as provide tools to convert existing Office documents to the new technology.

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15) But wait, there’s more!

Also on our This Week page: Technology corrects packet errors; legislators rally for teleworking; Cisco finally bets big on video; Alcatel plays catch-up with 10G switches; Intradyn rolls out e-mail archiving appliance; software watches service providers; SonicWall buys boost security, storage; Novell taps IBM, Lucent veteran as CTO; virtual tape system adds security.

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