This Week: Vendors beefing up app firewalls

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) Web application firewalls take on more heat

2) Automation: Better but not yet automatic

3) ITVideo: Virtualization and MP3 sunglasses

4) IT Borderlands: When online retail goes bad

5) Network Life: The Home Network Entertainment Issue

6) Under pressure as head of security for AT&T

7) Test: Juniper ISG 2000

8) When in-house software goes commercial

9) Nutter’s Help Desk: Linking networks wirelessly

10) Vendors mix voice, mobile tools

11) Open source firm to challenge VMware

12) Application servers get SOA treatment

13) Sun shipping eight-core Niagara servers

14) HP set to unveil management dashboard

15) Vendors tackle SOA management, security

16) But wait, there’s much more

1) Web application firewalls take on more heat

Over the next few months Web application firewall vendors Citrix, F5 Networks, Imperva, NetContinuum and Protegrity will add features that let their products take on bigger roles in speeding traffic to server farms and better protecting networked corporate data.

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2) Automation: Better but not yet automatic

Automation has come a long way since the days of running batch jobs on mainframes, but given the complexity of today’s distributed networks, the technology still has plenty of growing up to do, experts say.

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3) ITVideo: Virtualization and MP3 sunglasses

In Network World Hot Seat, John Gallant talks with Egenera’s Pete Manca about virtualization as a way to manage a data center. In Cool Tools, Keith Shaw takes some music-enabled sunglasses out for a spin.

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4) IT Borderlands: When online retail goes bad

Rule 1: Don’t have a cheery home page advertising your 24/7 availability when your ordering system’s been down for 20 straight hours. Ken Fasimpaur discusses one site in particular.

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5) Network Life: The Home Network Entertainment Issue

The future home network; why thinking like an IT guy at home pays off; home net security product review; expert advice and more.

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6) Under pressure as head of security for AT&T

What life is like for Ed Amoroso, 43, the chief information security officer for AT&T.

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http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/120505-amoroso.html?tw

7) Test: Juniper ISG 2000

Juniper plugs intrusion-prevention blades into ISG 2000 chassis with mixed results.

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http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/120505-juniper-test.html?tw

8) When in-house software goes commercial

The commercialization of technology that got its start in an enterprise IT setting, such as X4ML, is not unprecedented. There’s a constant flow of intellectual property from government agencies and universities to the commercial world. Companies in other industries have done the same thing.

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9) Nutter’s Help Desk: Linking networks wirelessly

Ron Nutter helps a user use two routers to extend the reach of his wireless network.

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10) Vendors mix voice, mobile tools

Avaya and Symbol last week announced a product partnership aimed at delivering mobile IP telephony and computing to healthcare and retail customers.

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11) Open source firm to challenge VMware

XenSource, the company founded to provide support and maintenance for the open source Xen virtual-machine monitor, is releasing its first commercial product, a set of tools that the company says will make it easier to virtualize servers.

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12) Application servers get SOA treatment

Vendors ready J2EE app servers for the SOA world

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13) Sun shipping eight-core Niagara servers

Sun this week is aiming to change the way corporate customers look at rack-dense servers by unveiling low-power-consuming, high-processing systems based on its new multicore, multithreaded UltraSPARC T1 processor, code-named Niagara.

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14) HP set to unveil management dashboard

HP this week is set to share details on its latest OpenView offering, which promises to help organizations better track application performance by delivering different statistics to people with different jobs.

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15) Vendors tackle SOA management, security

As the concept of service-oriented architecture begins to find life in corporate computing, a handful of vendors this week plans to unveil software to help companies manage and secure their SOAs, as well as integrate them with legacy systems.

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16) But wait, there’s much more

Our This Week page will also get you to these articles: SAML 2.0 simplifies federation; IT leaders go public; Open source GPL to get major  revision; Users urge BlackBerry maker to settle; Wireless laptops get new defense; Software vendors bare teeth at sales time; Check Point offers security appliances; Northrop Grumman to deliver IP conferencing net to DoD; Cerf backs broader Google focus; Nokia pushes harder for enterprise mobility; HP bolsters utility services; Sun expands menu of free software; Microsoft upgrades hosted service suite; Anti-offshoring legislation heats up; Orange, Cingular team on corporate cellular service; Microsoft partner offers offline SharePoint access; Mirapoint bolsters messaging server; Windows management service debuts

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