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) Showtime for Linux
Editor’s note: Obviously, the big news of the week is SBC’s announced takeover of AT&T. That happened too late for us to get into print (memo to newsmakers: Please stop making news on the weekend. Thanks), but we have full coverage – including a forum and the latest reactions from around the ‘Net) at https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2005/0131attsbc.html?twagaffin@nww.com
— Adam Gaffin, executive editor,
1) Microsoft seen poised to push anti-virus
Consensus is building among industry watchers that Microsoft will have anti-spyware and anti-virus products on the market for businesses and consumers by year-end.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105microsoftrsa.html?tw
2) IT budgets bigger, but not big enough
IT budgets for 2005 climbed for almost half of the respondents to a Network World survey, but that’s little solace for most. An even larger percentage of the 390 readers queried say their budgets are inadequate.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105budgetsurvey.html?tw
3) If only they knew then what we all know now
It’s been a little more than a decade since then-rookie analyst Rob Enderle penned a five-year forecast of the operating system market that raised the ire of vendors and colleagues. His report forecast a dramatic drop-off of the Macintosh operating system, along with declines in NetWare and Unix. …
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105widernetresearch.html?tw
4) Nutter’s Help Desk: Connecting with BPL
Nutter helps a reader examine the possibilities of broadband over power line
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/013105nutter.html?tw
5) Network World Radio: Video search with Blinkx
Search engine giant Google made a big splash last week with its new beta Video Search tool, allowing users to cull through transcripts of video from a handful of television stations and networks. Joining the program to discuss the video search is Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder and CTO of Blinkx, which has developed its own video search technology.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/0131radio.html?tw
6) Shake IT up
New jobs emerge as IT takes on a more strategic role.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/013105newit.html?tw
7) Network-intrusion detection systems
The Stealthwatch M250 Version 4.2 we tested – which veers from popular signature-based IDS products with a behavior-based approach to spotting intruders called anomaly detection – can indeed spot attacks, but its overall package could use a bit more polish.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/013105rev.html?tw
8) OS bypass eliminates overhead
The RDMA Consortium and IETF have developed a set of standard extensions to Ethernet and TCP/IP that eliminate all three sources of CPU overhead.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2005/013105techupdate.html?tw
9) CSIRT groups take on new roles
Creating and sustaining a computer security incident response team calls for ample preparation.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2005/013105man.html?tw
10) Users grow virtual call centers
Virtual call centers are gaining popularity as companies look for alternatives to running a traditional, in-house call center or using an offshore outsourcer.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105virtualcall.html?tw
11) Taming the ever-evolving phish risk
Security vendors and anti-phishing organizations report that such targeted phishing attacks on enterprise networks – sometimes called spear phishing – are on the rise. What’s at stake is not only the theft of personal financial information, but also loss of intellectual property, trade secrets and other highly sensitive information.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105phishing.html?tw
12) SBC rolls out WAN monitoring service
Uses Visual Networks product as add-on to managed network management offerings.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105carrsbc.html?tw
13) Users laud IP services that ‘stretch’ frame
Frame relay to IP services let users keep the frame relay networks they trust, while increasing connectivity between sites, typically without increasing spending. These offerings also let users take baby steps toward IP, which is important for customers that are not comfortable with a complete technology swap.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105carrspecialfocus.html?tw
14) NetWare-Linux combo wins approval
Novell Open Enterprise Server expected to ship next month.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105ecnovelloes.html?tw
15) Sun brings software into spotlight
Sun this week is expected to highlight its efforts to change the way customers buy and deploy data center resources, rolling out new, $50-per-employee middleware packages and expanding its Sun Grid offerings.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105sun.html?tw
16) IBM building unified data storage
IBM/Lotus is working on a unified content storage system that will be a key part of its future collaboration platform and let corporations equip applications with standards-based access to data no matter the format or where it is stored.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105datastore.html?tw
17) Notes/Domino users see a bright future for the platform
Notes/Domino users say they feel good about the health of their chosen collaboration platform after IBM/Lotus laid out its road map at last week’s Lotusphere conference.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105lotusphere.html?tw
18) Start-up eyes IT operations
Newcomer Optinuity has its eye on helping network executives speed problem resolution, instill better processes and more efficiently manage IT operations. The company this week is expected to unveil software that documents and automates existing manual procedures.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105optinuity.html?tw
19) Is Juniper out shopping?
Ever since Cisco acquired wireless LAN switch maker Airespace three weeks ago, speculation has swirled about how router rival Juniper might respond.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105-juniper-wireless.html?tw
20) Start-up shields against Exchange failures
Newcomer Mimosa Systems is readying continuous data protection software with a twist – it specifically supports Microsoft Exchange systems.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105mimosa.html?tw
21) Storage software protects data 24/7
Continuous data protection products save data to disk as changes are made, not at the end of the day, as older back-up products tend to do.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105cdp.html?tw
22) Spam busters go on the offensive
The war on spam is far from over, but there was a growing sense among the anti-spam crusaders gathered last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that advances on the legal and technology fronts have turned the tide against the Viagra peddlers and Nigerian princesses.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105spam.html?tw
23) Vernier sets sights beyond WLANs
Vernier Networks this week is set to make available a line of appliances designed to let customers lock down vulnerable network segments, devices and end users.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105vernier.html?tw
24) Start-up seeks to exploit Itanium
Ex-HP executives are behind server software maker Secure64.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/013105ecsecure64.html?tw
25) Clustering firm to knock on data center doors
Meiosys, a start-up that specializes in moving applications among physical servers to maximize performance and availability, is working with systems vendors to bring its technology to enterprise data centers.
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