* Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage * Microsoft, under attack, aims to offer security * Minnesota portal provides statewide benefits * Start-up to tackle app management * Testing volunteers needed * Today on Layer 8
The price war in telecom services is still going strong, and that means network executives can still save big bucks if they renegotiate with their carriers. In our story this week, we have something for everyone – optimists can find out just how much they can save, and pessimists can learn why lower prices in the long run might not be such a good thing, after all. Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504pricewar.html?net
The price war in telecom services is still going strong, and that means network executives can still save big bucks if they renegotiate with their carriers. In our story this week, we have something for everyone – optimists can find out just how much they can save, and pessimists can learn why lower prices in the long run might not be such a good thing, after all.
Tumbling telecom rates give customers leverage
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504pricewar.html?net
Microsoft, under attack, aims to offer security
The buzz today is all about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The number of folks suggesting that the Web browser may be unsafe to use is reaching critical mass, and Microsoft is vigorously defending its security efforts. But the company’s Trustworthy Computing initiative is a couple years old now, and as one software developer asks, “When is it going to get better?”
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0705microunder.html?net
Minnesota portal provides statewide benefits
Minnesota’s Web portal – dubbed North Star – was built using BroadVision Portal software. 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.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504minnesota.html?net
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.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/070504nlayers.html?net
Testing volunteers needed
Network World is looking for enterprise networks to be a part of a test to be conducted on security appliances with firewall, IPS, VPN and policy-based management features. Requirements: a T-1 Internet connection, 10 to 200 users sitting behind a security device and a willingness to let a security consultant assist in appliance management. Volunteers will have access to all test results. Contact Christine Burns at:
Today on Layer 8, the yin to your yang:
U.S. media scooped on VP choice by a most unlikely message board; is borrowing bandwidth an unneighborly thing to do?; camera phones banned from movie screening; and the start of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
