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1) Rx for patching mired in red tape 2) Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage 3) Special section: Offshoring 4) Technology Update: APM pinpoints service problems 5) Minnesota portal provides statewide benefits 6) Zultys adds IP PBX clustering 7) University graduating to wireless net 8) Air Force unwires fighter maintenance 9) Congress targets telework slackers 10) Nutter’s Help Desk: How to size/implement an SSL VPN 11) Surviving the DNC with telework tools 12) Cisco buy to link remote resources 13) Network World Fusion Radio: Insuring e-business 14) Novell CTO updates open source plan 15) Management vendors make good on acquisitions 16) Wireless Wizards: When will 802.11 and cell service integrate? 17) Start-up to tackle app management 18) Appliance controls RFID traffic
1) Rx for patching mired in red tape
2) Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage
3) Special section: Offshoring
4) Technology Update: APM pinpoints service problems
5) Minnesota portal provides statewide benefits
6) Zultys adds IP PBX clustering
7) University graduating to wireless net
8) Air Force unwires fighter maintenance
9) Congress targets telework slackers
10) Nutter’s Help Desk: How to size/implement an SSL VPN
11) Surviving the DNC with telework tools
12) Cisco buy to link remote resources
13) Network World Fusion Radio: Insuring e-business
14) Novell CTO updates open source plan
15) Management vendors make good on acquisitions
16) Wireless Wizards: When will 802.11 and cell service integrate?
17) Start-up to tackle app management
18) Appliance controls RFID traffic
1) Rx for patching mired in red tape
The epidemic of Windows-based worms and viruses in the past year has put hospital IT administrators on a state of high alert to protect patient-care systems that have become reliant on Microsoft operating systems.
DocFinder: 2754
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504hospitalpatch.html
2) Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage
While prices for voice, IP and traditional data services such as frame relay have been in free-fall for three years now, the largest service providers continue to slash rates.
DocFinder: 2755
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504pricewar.html
3) Special section: Offshoring
Offshore outsourcing is on the rise – 86% of companies currently using outsourcing services said they expect offshored work to increase in the next year. Our special report looks at everything from the benefits and drawbacks to the legal ramifications.
DocFinder: 2756
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/offshoring/
4) Technology Update: APM pinpoints service problems
APM software improves interaction between applications and network components that support them, giving network administrators more insight and visibility into their IT infrastructures.
DocFinder: 2757
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/070504techupdate.html
5) Minnesota portal provides statewide benefits
Minnesota’s Web portal – dubbed North Star – provides a single, citizen-facing interface to Web content created by 400 state agencies. Just 18 months after going live, North Star attracts 8 million hits per month, representing about 650,000 user sessions.
DocFinder: 2758
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504minnesota.html
6) Zultys adds IP PBX clustering
Zultys Technologies this week is set to announce a clustering technology for its IP PBXs aimed at letting users create resilient, high-scale VoIP systems using groups of small call servers.
DocFinder: 2759
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0705zultys.html
7) University graduating to wireless net
American University is on the verge of pulling the plug on its traditional wired voice network for students.
DocFinder: 2760
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504au.html
8) Air Force unwires fighter maintenance
A look at the state-of-the-art WLAN model being rolled out across Air Force bases to speed aircraft maintenance
DocFinder: 2761
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504airforce.html
9) Congress targets telework slackers
The House Appropriations Committee recently approved a spending bill that withholds $5 million from the budgets of the departments of Commerce, Justice and State until they prove they let their eligible employees telework.
DocFinder: 2762
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/0705netlead.html
10) Nutter’s Help Desk: How to size/implement an SSL VPN
Ron Nutter helps a reader who needs help answering capacity and redundancy questions for his SSL VPN pilot project.
DocFinder: 2763
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0705nutter.html
11) Surviving the DNC with telework tools
The 2004 Democratic National Convention Web site includes ‘alternate routes’ for Boston-area commuters to take during the event. But the smartest route is down the hall to the home office.
DocFinder: 2764
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/070504netsecondstory.html
12) Cisco buy to link remote resources
With Actona buy, Cisco plans to link storage and WAN routing
DocFinder: 2765
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504cisco.html
13) Network World Fusion Radio: Insuring e-business
What happens if your e-business is downed by something out of your control? Do you have insurance to cover the potential losses? John Quarterman, CEO of InternetPerils, joins us this week to discuss the issue of e-business insurance.
DocFinder: 2746
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0629radio.html
14) Novell CTO updates open source plan
As part of its transition to an open source software model, Novell will scale back its investment in some proprietary technology that competes with open source alternatives.
DocFinder: 2766
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504novell.html
15) Management vendors make good on acquisitions
Enterprise network managers could benefit from a flurry of acquisitions in which network management veterans BMC Software and HP separately bought leading-edge technologies and integrated the wares into their software suites.
DocFinder: 2767
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504bmchp.html
16) Wireless Wizards: When will 802.11 and cell service integrate?
The Wizards answer a reader who asks: “In reality, how close are we in providing seamless service to users by integrating the corporate wireless LAN and the public cellular services?”
DocFinder: 2768
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0705wizards.html
17) Start-up to tackle app management
IT managers looking to better understand how applications use their network infrastructure – and more quickly spot potential failures – have a newcomer to the application management market to consider.
DocFinder: 2769
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504nlayers.html
18) Appliance controls RFID traffic
ThingMagic last week announced the Mercury4T, an RFID reader that scans supply-chain items, such as cases and pallets of goods, for their electronic product code (EPC) and passes along the information to enterprise databases and business applications.
DocFinder: 2770
