* Spammers using sender authentication too, study says * SCO caps legal costs as losses mount * Veritas acquires e-mail archiver KVS * Swan dives into WAN compression * Network World Fusion Radio: Satisfaction * Today on Layer 8
Those of you who receive our free Network/Systems Management Newsletter are probably familiar with the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. This set of best practices for managing networks and systems is getting picked up by enterprise companies across America. This week we look at what ITIL is and what makes it so popular. American ITIL: Best practices win converts http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004itil.html?net Net/Systems Management Newsletter http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/index.html?net
What good are emerging authentication technologies like Sender ID if spammers are using them as much as people you actually want to hear from? You might be tempted to ask that question, given the results of a recent study showing that’s what’s happening today. But as one expert points out, spammers are playing right into our hands.
Spammers using sender authentication too, study says
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831spammusing.html?net
SCO caps legal costs as losses mount
The SCO Group has famously based so much of its business model on legal action that the company is finding that all its money is going to legal fees. To stem the tide, SCO hammered out an agreement with its law firm to set a limit on up-front legal fees – but with a tradeoff.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831scocaps.html?net
Veritas acquires e-mail archiver KVS
Veritas Tuesday acquired Kvault Software Limited, better known as KVS, for an all cash transaction valued at $225 million.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831veritaskvs.html?net
Swan dives into WAN compression
Swan Labs thinks that making WAN links more responsive is such a hot idea that it bought up the WAN-acceleration product line of ITWorx.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831swan.html?net
Network World Fusion Radio: Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is our focus this week. The American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its results for the second quarter of 2004, and joining us to discuss them is Professor Claes Fornell, the head of the Index at the University of Michigan. Listen in now:
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0901radio.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where all our minds are open, but not all our ports:
Make a rocket on a budget; how technology can ease your next hotel check-in; talking potholders – welcome to the kitchen of the future; and the controversy over homegrown satellite radio; the all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
