This week on Network World Fusion, 08/23/04

1) Has IE dug itself a hole? 2) Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers 3) A Wider Net: When silence sounds too, well, silent 4) How GM saved a billion dollars 5) Un-wiring the wireless LAN 6) Review: Pedestal aids in security enforcement 7) Review: LANsurveyor 8.5 for Windows 8) Review: SCO’s UnixWare measures up with open source additions 9) Technology Update: FTTP boosts bandwidth in the last mile 10) Management Strategies: In the firing line 11) Wary buyers dampen software sales 12) The other side: Hardware revenue should be up 13) Dell continues network battle 14) Tools help manage domain names 15) ISPs look inward to stop spam 16) Start-ups automate global trade functions 17) Microsoft aims to save $1 billion this fiscal year 18) Siemens exec talks up VoIP

1) Is security ripe for outsourcing?

2) State IT execs betting on VoIP

3) Colleges cram for test of new security plans

4) The New Data Center: Spotlight on VoIP – How to make wireless part of your new data center architecture.

5) Wireless Wizards: Can anyone regulate Wi-Fi?

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Making a wireless LAN connection

7) Wider Net: Keeping track of NASCAR

8) Review: Sourcefire’s RNA provides instant visibility into your network

9) Review: Oracle Collaboration Suite

10) ZigBee enables wireless embedded nets

11) Management strategies: The entrepreneur’s spirit

12) Microsoft’s NAP partners eye first steps

13) IOS changes could alter face of Cisco routers

14) Broadband over power lines gaining steam

15) Proofpoint uses anti-spam product to find inside leaks

16) Anti-virus vendors adding spyware to target list

17) CA looks to reduce ‘integration tax’

18) Compellent unveils low-end SAN

19) XP SP2 deployment is smooth – so far

20) Carrier group seeks fee overhaul

21) HP ProLiant delays continue

22) IBM adds four-way server to i5 line

23) Forum: How to fire your network administrator

24) Network World Radio: Phishing

1) Is security ripe for outsourcing?

Security demands for online applications such as e-commerce and Web services are prompting more corporate customers to hand off security functions – such as intrusion detection and firewalls – to outside service providers.

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2) State IT execs betting on VoIP

In California, there might be a new killer app for VoIP: balancing the state budget.

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3) Colleges cram for test of new security plans

Bushwhacked last fall by computer worms, network managers at U.S. colleges have taken steps to make sure it won’t happen again next month when the new academic year begins.

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4) The New Data Center: Spotlight on VoIP – How to make wireless part of your new data center architecture.

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5) Wireless Wizards: Can anyone regulate Wi-Fi?

The Wizards ponder this query: What happens when wireless networks become pervasive to the point where there is so much interference that networks crowd each other? Is there an authority that arbitrates/mediates or will help resolve these conflicts in the future?

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6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Making a wireless LAN connection

Ron Nutter answers this question: Can you suggest equipment I could use to build a wireless network from my business to my house?

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7) Wider Net: Keeping track of NASCAR

The technology driving telecasts just might surprise you.

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8) Review: Sourcefire’s RNA provides instant visibility into your network

Sourcefire’s Real-time Network Awareness Sensor 2000 is like a magic eye that watches everything happening on your network

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9) Review: Oracle Collaboration Suite

Oracle’s take on enterprise collaboration impresses.

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10) ZigBee enables wireless embedded nets

Wireless embedded networks hold great promise for deployment in residential and commercial building-automation, industrial plant monitoring, and other wireless sensing and control applications. An association of corporations called the ZigBee Alliance is developing a standard for low-cost, low-power wireless embedded networking.

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11) Management strategies: The entrepreneur’s spirit

Company founders whose start-up businesses failed live to tell the tale.

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12) Microsoft’s NAP partners eye first steps

While there is much ballyhoo about the Microsoft initiative to protect networks from infected machines, customers looking to take advantage of the company’s Network Access Protection architecture will have to wait for its partners to step up before it becomes a broad security tool.

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13) IOS changes could alter face of Cisco routers

Companies can expect to see more modularity and features in Cisco’s IOS software over the next several quarters, as the elements of technology it recently introduced for carriers trickles down to business customers.

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http: //www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304cisco.html

14) Broadband over power lines gaining steam

While 2004 didn’t turn into quite the rush to embrace BPL services that industry observers predicted last year, there continues to be momentum around the technology. Providers say BPL throughput can range from 300K to 2M bit/sec, about the same as cable and DSL, but that they can provide the service at a less-expensive rate.

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15) Proofpoint uses anti-spam product to find inside leaks

Anti-spam vendor Proofpoint wants to take what it knows about keeping spam out of an organization and apply it to helping companies keep trade secrets, intellectual property and other sensitive information inside the corporate network.

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16) Anti-virus vendors adding spyware to target list

Businesses that use anti-virus software to protect employee desktops now say they also want to eradicate spyware, a demand that’s prompting anti-virus vendors to plunge into spyware’s murky waters.

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17) CA looks to reduce ‘integration tax’

CA last week detailed its Management Database, technology the company detailed at a briefing last week and which is expected to emerge in CA products as early as this year. Typically, each CA product has its own data repository, but with the new technology users will have the option to use a shared database or maintain a separate database for each CA applications.

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18) Compellent unveils low-end SAN

Compellent this week is expected to unveil a product for small and midsize business storage-area network users.

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19) XP SP2 deployment is smooth – so far

As Microsoft smooths out the ripples after last week’s big splash with Windows XP Service Pack 2, users say they found fewer problems than they expected, but some complain that late code changes and lingering compatibility issues will serve to refuel testing efforts and further delay full-scale deployments.

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20) Carrier group seeks fee overhaul

A group of carriers is lobbying the FCC to overhaul the way service providers are compensated for completing calls originating on competitors’ networks.

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21) HP ProLiant delays continue

HP customers will continue to have difficulties ordering custom configurations of HP’s ProLiant servers through the end of this month, company executives told attendees at the HP World conference last week in Chicago.

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22) IBM adds four-way server to i5 line

IBM last week bolstered the new eServer i5 server lineup with a box designed for small and midsize businesses looking for an off-the-shelf server that is easy to integrate into an existing environment.

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23) Forum: How to fire your network administrator

User Ron Jennings provides tips. What do you think?

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24) Network World Radio: Phishing

Phishing is its name and stealing your financial information is the game. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) hopes to squash the practice by educating the consumers and the companies targeted by phishers. Joining the program to discuss the issue is Jeff Ready, vice president of marketing at Tumbleweed Communications, one of the founding companies in the APWG.

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