Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail newsletters at http://www.nwfusion.com/focus
1) Has IE dug itself a hole? 2) Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers 3) A Wider Net: When silence sounds too, well, silent 4) How GM saved a billion dollars 5) Un-wiring the wireless LAN 6) Review: Pedestal aids in security enforcement 7) Review: LANsurveyor 8.5 for Windows 8) Review: SCO’s UnixWare measures up with open source additions 9) Technology Update: FTTP boosts bandwidth in the last mile 10) Management Strategies: In the firing line 11) Wary buyers dampen software sales 12) The other side: Hardware revenue should be up 13) Dell continues network battle 14) Tools help manage domain names 15) ISPs look inward to stop spam 16) Start-ups automate global trade functions 17) Microsoft aims to save $1 billion this fiscal year 18) Siemens exec talks up VoIP
1) Ford to cut cord on 8,000 phones
2) The rush is on to virtualize servers
3) Test: Vulnerability alerting services
4) Network World Radio: Behind the scenes at PivX
5) Test: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing with switches
7) No rat race, no sour grapes
8) Adaptive TCP optimizes WANs
9) IT hiring inches upward
10) Zetera debuts low-cost storage option
11) YMCA builds extensive online community
12) Foundry pumps up 10G offerings
13) Netifice adds new looks to Web portal
14) Blade vendors sharpen focus on management
15) BMC syncs up management tools
16) Notes faithful expecting clear picture from IBM
17) Microsoft ends bid to move Exchange to anchor platform
18) Oracle airs PeopleSoft integration game plan
19) Sun readies compliance software
20) Symantec boxes to battle spam and viruses
21) Chipset to cut chunk out of WLAN costs?
22) Vendor extends patch tools to Linux, Unix
23) Barracuda device guards outgoing e-mail
24) Sun announces Java RFID product, architecture
25) Veritas refreshes back-up software
1) Ford to cut cord on 8,000 phones
Ford is expected to announce today that it is replacing the traditional wireline phones of 8,000 employees in its product development department with wireless phones from Sprint.
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2) The rush is on to virtualize servers
While VMware pretty much created the virtual machine market on x86 servers and has enjoyed a nearly uncontested leadership position, enterprise customers this year will find a wider variety of options for virtualizing servers, operating systems and applications.
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3) Test: Vulnerability alerting services
Our testing showed Symantec’s DeepSight Analyzer to be the best all-around service, with Cybertrust’s Alert Manager following very close behind, but keep in mind that you also pay a premium for the added features.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/012405revvuln.html?tw
4) Network World Radio: Behind the scenes at PivX
With Network World looking at seven Vulnerability Alerting Services in this week’s issue, we take a look at how one of these companies operates behind the scenes. Joining the program is Thor Larholm, senior security researcher for PivX. Listen in:
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5) Test: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
If you want to stay ahead of server failures, server capacity problems and server-related network outages, Microsoft Operation Manager 2005 can help.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/012405revmom.html?tw
6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Sniffing with switches
Ron Nutter helps a user moving from hubs to switches find the best way to monitor the health of his network devices.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/012405nutter.html?tw
7) No rat race, no sour grapes
Net industry veterans savor switch to wine making.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405widernetwine.html?tw
8) Adaptive TCP optimizes WANs
Adaptive TCP uses a set of algorithms to shape TCP behavior to match application requirements, producing vast improvements in application response time and throughput.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2005/012405techupdate.html?tw
9) IT hiring inches upward
Companies cautiously seek to increase IT staff with network, security and business skills.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2005/012405man.html?tw
10) Zetera debuts low-cost storage option
Zetera recently announced technology that lets small and midsize businesses connect disk drives to networks more easily and inexpensively than with direct- or network-attached storage.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2005/012405netlead.html?tw
11) YMCA builds extensive online community
For more than 150 years, YMCAs have popped up in U.S. cities to bring people together and provide communities with shared health and social service resources. And this year, an online community will emerge to help the 2,575 YMCAs across the U.S. better share information and improve communication between employees, volunteers and each other.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405ymca.html?tw
12) Foundry pumps up 10G offerings
Foundry Networks this week is expected to launch a new series of lower-cost, modular switches aimed at customers that want to speed 10G adoption in their business networks.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405-foundry.html?tw
13) Netifice adds new looks to Web portal
Netifice Communications is upgrading its customer portal Web site to let users more easily see the status of their remote VPNs – from order provisioning to network uptime.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405-netifice.html?tw
14) Blade vendors sharpen focus on management
As companies in growing numbers consider blade servers to handle critical business workloads, they are looking beyond the power and space savings they can get and are demanding more when it comes to the tools to manage these compact systems.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405specialfocus.html?tw
15) BMC syncs up management tools
BMC Software has begun incorporating a common database in its products that the company says should ease IT service management.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405bmc.html?tw
16) Notes faithful expecting clear picture from IBM
Customers are expecting IBM/Lotus to finally present a clear picture for the future of Notes/Domino and its integration with the next-generation Workplace environment built on WebSphere when the company convenes its annual Lotusphere conference this week.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405lotusphere.html?tw
17) Microsoft ends bid to move Exchange to anchor platform
Microsoft last week laid out revised plans for Exchange, including where the messaging server fits into the company’s overall collaboration scheme. However, the company did not say when its next major release would debut.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405exchange.html?tw
18) Oracle airs PeopleSoft integration game plan
Analysts and customers last week welcomed Oracle’s announcement of aplan to integrate PeopleSoft applications with its own, but said they now want to see the company deliver results based on these promises.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405oracle.html?tw
19) Sun readies compliance software
Sun this week is expected to announce software aimed at helping companies keep on top of mandates imposed by legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405soxid.html?tw
20) Symantec boxes to battle spam and viruses
Symantec this week is expected to announce a series of appliances that do double duty by combatting both spam and viruses.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405symantec.html?tw
21) Chipset to cut chunk out of WLAN costs?
Broadcom this week is expected to announce a multifunction chipset that could lead to a tenfold decrease in the cost of wireless Ethernet switching gear.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405broadcom.html?tw
22) Vendor extends patch tools to Linux, Unix
Patch management vendor New Boundary Technologies is expanding the range of its software beyond Windows to answer user demands for cross-platform support that will address vulnerabilities, regardless of where they exist on the network.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405newboundary.html?tw
23) Barracuda device guards outgoing e-mail
Barracuda Networks last week released a new version of its anti-spam appliance that prevents unwanted e-mail and viruses from being sent out of a corporate network while keeping sensitive data, trade secrets and other company information inside the organization.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405barracuda.html?tw
24) Sun announces Java RFID product, architecture
Sun last week announced a Java-based product designed to make it easy for companies to switch from tagging their products with traditional bar codes to radio frequency identification technology.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/012405-sun-rfid.html?tw
25) Veritas refreshes back-up software
Veritas Software last week announced upgraded back-up software for Windows and NetWare networks, showing that it isn’t standing still just because it’s in the middle of being acquired by Symantec.
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