NetFlash: See what the Buzz is about

If you haven’t checked out this week’s Buzz Issue, now’s your chance to visit us online. We take in-depth looks at the hottest technologies – the fastest wireless options being considered today, the leaps Linux is making at the desktop, so-called “grid” storage and others. Special feature: the buzzword lexicon, which provides questions you should ask vendors when shopping around for some of these new technologies. The Buzz Issue http://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/?net

If you haven’t checked out this week’s Buzz Issue, now’s your chance to visit us online. We take in-depth looks at the hottest technologies – the fastest wireless options being considered today, the leaps Linux is making at the desktop, so-called “grid” storage and others. Special feature: the buzzword lexicon, which provides questions you should ask vendors when shopping around for some of these new technologies.

The Buzz Issue

https://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/?net

PeopleSoft’s CEO Conway gets the boot

Craig Conway was really between a rock and a hard place. As PeopleSoft CEO, he had to contend with Oracle’s hostile takeover bid while simultaneously keeping revenue and profits up. Unfortunately, income dropped 70% from one year to the next, and Conway was shown the door.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1001peoplceoc.html?net

Nortel details plans to lay off 3,250 employees

Nortel.will lay off approximately 1,400 employees in the U.S. and about 950 in Canada, with those employees to be notified by the end of June 2005, the network equipment vendor said in a regulatory filing Thursday that fleshed out earlier announcements of the coming layoffs.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0930nortedetai.html?net

StorageTek buys storage mgmt. company

StorageTek Thursday announced that it has acquired storage management vendor Storability. Storability’s Global Storage Manager software will be added to StorageTek’s information lifecycle management software.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0930stek.html?net

Hitachi, NEC launch networking equipment joint venture

Alaxala Networks, the backbone-network router and switch joint venture announced by Hitachi and NEC earlier this year, began operations on Friday, it said in a statement.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1001hitacnecl.html?net

Network World Fusion Radio: The hidden costs of VoIP

Bandwidth is not the only thing you have to be concerned with when rolling out VoIP. Is your network closet and cabling up to snuff? Gary Audin of Delphi joins the program to discuss the physical costs associated with VoIP.

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0930radio.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where there’s no debating the need for odd news:

RFID proponents don’t want to be tracked; VoIP price war ahead?; area codes don’t mean as much as they used to; and U.S. phishing losses hit $500 million; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net

This week’s top 5 stories so far:

1. Bank of America to deploy 180,000 IP phones with Cisco, EDS

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928bankam.html?net

2. Hackers use porn to target Microsoft JPEG hole

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928hackeusep.html?net

3. Security in a world without borders

https://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/092704perimeter.html?net

4. IPv6 expert sees adoption growing… slowly

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html?net

5. Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sensors.html?net