* Share at 50: IBM users still sticking together * IBM puts Blue Gene on tap * Test: Juniper scores with wireless LAN protector * FCC waives some limits on UWB transmissions * Cisco rolls out intelligent storage module, operating system * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
Share, the granddaddy of all high-tech user groups, turns 50 this year, and our Wider Net story takes an in-depth look at the buttons, the singalong, the lab coat – and of course the user presentations that have helped so many make more of their IBM implementations. Share at 50: IBM users still sticking together http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/030705widernetshare.html?net
Share, the granddaddy of all high-tech user groups, turns 50 this year, and our Wider Net story takes an in-depth look at the buttons, the singalong, the lab coat – and of course the user presentations that have helped so many make more of their IBM implementations.
Share at 50: IBM users still sticking together
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/030705widernetshare.html?net
IBM puts Blue Gene on tap
Speaking of IBM and sharing, now you can rent out all or part of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to do your own genome research or seismic analysis. Actually, there are plenty of more mainstream commercial applications as well, and IBM is targeting those with its new supercomputer-on-demand service.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0311ibmgene.html?net
Test: Juniper scores with wireless LAN protector
In our exclusive Network World Clear Choice Test, we found the NetScreen-5GT Wireless to be a clean melding of a trusted, full-featured firewall to a secure wireless access point.
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/030705-juniper-test.html?net
FCC waives some limits on UWB transmissions
The Federal Communications Commission has granted a waiver that will let certain products using ultra-wideband radio signals run at higher power levels and higher throughput.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0810fcc.html?net
Cisco rolls out intelligent storage module, operating system
Cisco expanded the capabilities of its multi-protocol director-level and fabric switches this week with the introduction of a line card and software intended to let IT managers host storage applications in a storage-area network fabric.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0310cisstor.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where we ask: Is it 5 o’clock yet?:
Boston schools want to ban cell phones; Dell fires employees for praying on the job; the monitoring software we don’t want on our network; and Netscape tries for a comeback; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net
This week’s top 5 stories so far:
1. Test: Juniper scores with WLAN protector
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/030705-juniper-test.html?net
2. Microsoft, Sun tiff puts users in bind
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/030705-identity.html?net
3. Update: Microsoft to buy Groove Networks
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0310microtobu.html?net
4. Terrorists targeted India’s outsourcing industry
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0307terrotarge.html?net
5. Share at 50: IBM users still sticking together
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/030705widernetshare.html?net
