* Cisco raising router security * HP network group digs in its heels * Vendors combine configuration wares * Data center appliances expand capabilities * Network World Fusion Radio * Today on Layer 8
Cisco knows it needs to provide its users with better security – but it’s a long way from here to there. The company’s Network Admission Control technology for routers is coming out today, but critical additions to the LAN switch lines aren’t expected until early next year and standardization of the technology is still to come. Cisco raising router security http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/062104cisco.html?net
Cisco knows it needs to provide its users with better security – but it’s a long way from here to there. The company’s Network Admission Control technology for routers is coming out today, but critical additions to the LAN switch lines aren’t expected until early next year and standardization of the technology is still to come.
Cisco raising router security
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/062104cisco.html?net
HP network group digs in its heels
Network equipment makes up less than 1% of the revenue for HP, but the company continues to show it is serious about rapidly increasing that number. It recently bought Cabletron spin-off Riverstone Networks for its 10 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities and fleshed out its LAN switch line.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0621infhp.html?net
Vendors combine configuration wares
Configuration management vendors AlterPoint and Configuresoft plan to integrate their products to provide corporations with a unified platform for letting users change and monitor configuration data on everything from network devices to applications.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/062104configuresoft.html?net
Data center appliances expand capabilities
New traffic optimization and application acceleration devices combine the features of Layer 4-7 switching along with other technical hooks and tricks aimed at making corporate servers run faster.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0621specialfocus.html?net
Network World Fusion Radio: Utility computing and virtualization at HP
Network World Senior Writer Denise Dubie sits down with Nick van der Zweep, director of Virtualization and Utility Computing in the Enterprise Systems Group at HP, to discuss these data center-related technologies. Plus some insider information about a hit movie.
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0617radio.html?net
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