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) Users still bullish on Web services ————————————– We catch up with the companies profiled in last year’s Web Services Early Adopters series (http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0415webservices.html) to see if they’re reaping the benefits promised. Two out of three give an enthusiastic thumb’s up. DocFinder: 5944 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519revisited.html
Editor’s Note: Renovator Award
1) Shake-up in telecom has users on edge
2) Microsoft preps move on identity management
3) Carriers to make hay on IP VPNs
4) Nutter’s Help Desk: Debugging a Cisco SSL VPN connection
5) Who’s the bigger threat to your data: Employees or intruders?
6) Old missile silos never die: Selling bunker mentality to IT shops
7) The New Data Center: A Status Report
8) Web services take off
9) Review: WaveLink Mobile Manager Enterprise
10) Technology Update: UPSD saves cell phone power
11) Uncooperative end users: How to get them on your side
12) IRS gives home-based jobs to disabled
13) Using RFID to boost business’ bottom line
14) RSA Conference: HP finds place for virus throttling
15) Sprint’s focus is on wireless business
16) Virtualization: Tool partitions one processor into 10
17) Wireless: Cutting the cord on thin clients
18) Telecom: FCC could force requirements on merged companies
19) RSA event sets up malware war
20) LinuxWorld: Show shines light on desktop Linux
21) Novell looks to extend open source reach
22) Cost, complexity still slow speech apps
23) HP unleashes WAN, LAN, wireless products
24) Security: Vendor fine-tunes policy to control admin rights
25) VoIP security vendors debut new tools
26) Demo roundup: All the next new stuff
Editor’s Note: Have you overhauled your network and realized a substantial return on the investment, a significant new business opportunity or found a creative way to leverage technology? If so, get in the running for Network World’s new Renovator Award, the top winners of which will be honored at a celebration in Las Vegas during the Networld+Interop conference in May. Entries will be judged by a panel of Network World editors, columnists and industry experts. Winners will be presented an award at the celebration and profiled in a subsequent Network World article. Contest sponsored by Juniper Networks. You’ll find entry forms at:
DocFinder: 5951
https://www.nwfusion.com/renovator2005.html?tw
1) Shake-up in telecom has users on edge
With fewer, bigger telecom players left standing, network executives are bracing for changes in the way they procure services. Some fear that lessened competition will weaken their bargaining leverage and drive up prices.
DocFinder: 5889
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-mci-verizon.html?tw
2) Microsoft preps move on identity management
Microsoft is working on restructuring its identity management platform, adding services directly into the operating system with an eye toward lessening users’ current integration chores.
DocFinder: 5890
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-microsoft-identity.html?tw
3) Carriers to make hay on IP VPNs
Expect a flurry of announcements this year as service providers such as AT&T and BellSouth add class of service, network-based security and a greater range of access methods to their network-based IP VPN services.
DocFinder: 5891
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-vpns.html?tw
4) Nutter’s Help Desk: Debugging a Cisco SSL VPN connection
Ron Nutter helps a user figure out why one client has trouble using his Network Browse function over the concentrator.
DocFinder: 5892
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/022105nutter.html?tw
5) Who’s the bigger threat to your data: Employees or intruders?
Join the face-off: Joseph Ansanelli, founder and CEO of Vontu, argues you’ve got to watch out for your employees. Jonathan Bingham, president and co-founder of Intrusic, though, says outsiders are a much bigger threat. Read their opening statements, then jump in with your thoughts.
DocFinder: 5893
https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2265
6) Old missile silos never die: Selling bunker mentality to IT shops
Don and Charlene Zwonitzer know a thing or two about preparing for the unexpected. The knowledge comes from reclaiming a 1960s-era Atlas E Missile Silo and converting it into home sweet home – and eventually, they hope, a modern-day computer disaster-recovery facility.
DocFinder: 5894
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105widernetbunker.html?tw
7) The New Data Center: A Status Report
Our 2005 series on the new data center starts with a look at how far companies have progressed in piecing together the next-generation IT architecture.
DocFinder: 5895
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2005/ndc1/?tw
8) Web services take off
Survey shows that many companies are moving from app integration to business process transformation.
DocFinder: 5896
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2005/022105web.html?tw
9) Review: WaveLink Mobile Manager Enterprise
Save time (and headaches) managing your wireless LAN infrastructure.
DocFinder: 5897
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/022105testwavelink.html?tw
10) Technology Update: UPSD saves cell phone power
The Seamless Converged Communication Across Networks Forum has modified the power-save mode to give mobile device clients control over when they awaken and sleep.
DocFinder: 5898
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2005/022105techupdate.html?tw
11) Uncooperative end users: How to get them on your side
Put an end to push back against technology change and quell the complaints by teaching out to learn users’ needs and how to fulfill them.
DocFinder: 5899
https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2005/022105man.html?tw
12) IRS gives home-based jobs to disabled
IRS breaks barriers to provide home-based jobs for disabled workers
DocFinder: 5801
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2005/022105netlead.html?tw
13) Using RFID to boost business’ bottom line
Plans to deploy radio frequency identification technology in supply-chain settings have kept retailers and manufacturers busy over the last couple of years, spurred by adoption mandates from Wal-Mart, Target, the U.S. Department of Defense and others.
DocFinder: 5802
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105rfidmid.html?tw
14) RSA Conference: HP finds place for virus throttling
New technology on servers and switches from HP could slow virus outbreaks on computer networks that use the HP products.
DocFinder: 5803
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-hp-throttle.html?tw
15) Sprint’s focus is on wireless business
So far, Sprint has no plans to team up with a local exchange carrier like its key competitors AT&T and MCI, but it’s not going it alone, either.
DocFinder: 5804
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105sprint.html?tw
16) Virtualization: Tool partitions one processor into 10
Newcomer Virtual Iron Software last week introduced virtualization software designed to turn individual servers and groups of machines into symmetric multiprocessing systems.
DocFinder: 5805
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-virtual-iron.html?tw
17) Wireless: Cutting the cord on thin clients
Thin clients were once as chained to the corporate desktop as full-blown PCs. But that’s changing now as wireless LANs and 3G cellular networks become more common.
DocFinder: 5806
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105specialfocus.html?tw
18) Telecom: FCC could force requirements on merged companies
The FCC could play a significant role in shaping the futures of SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI by requiring specific network construction, says a former FCC chairman.
DocFinder: 5807
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105vzmciside.html?tw
19) RSA event sets up malware war
When Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates used his keynote address at last week’s RSA Conference to tout his company’s snowballing initiatives around anti-spyware and anti-virus software, the message was met cautiously by customers, and dismissed by competitors.
DocFinder: 5808
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105rsa.html?tw
20) LinuxWorld: Show shines light on desktop Linux
While many Linux converts are focused on moving their data centers off of Unix, a second front for Linux migration soon could take shape on corporate desktops.
DocFinder: 5809
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105linuxworld.html?tw
21) Novell looks to extend open source reach
Novell last week at LinuxWorld outlined a slew of products that bolster its Linux product line and a batch of initiatives aimed at cementing its role in the open source community.
DocFinder: 5810
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-novell-linux.html?tw
22) Cost, complexity still slow speech apps
The 451 Group estimates just 5% of today’s IVR systems incorporate speech-recognition technology that lets users access information using spoken commands. The remaining 95% of the IVR market consists of much older, simple touch-tone menus from which users select choices by pushing buttons on a telephone, the firm says. According to most industry accounts, that ratio should be changing.
DocFinder: 5811
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-ivr-speechtek.html?tw
23) HP unleashes WAN, LAN, wireless products
HP this week is expected to make a three-pronged product launch to help users add lower-cost WAN connectivity to branch offices and improve security on wired and wireless LANs.
DocFinder: 5812
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-hp-router.html?tw
24) Security: Vendor fine-tunes policy to control admin rights
DesktopStandard last week released software that helps corporations secure end-user desktops by controlling the privileges they have on their own PCs on an application-by-application basis.
DocFinder: 5813
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105-desktopstandard.html?tw
25) VoIP security vendors debut new tools
Gear, education programs seek to speed adoption, keep VoIP networks out of trouble.
DocFinder: 5814
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/022105voipsecurity.html?tw
26) Demo roundup: All the next new stuff
See what cool new stuff was unwrapped at the show.
DocFinder: 5815
