NetFlash: Breaking the glass firewall

Over the years, the pages of Network World and every other IT publication have been filled with images of white, middle-aged men in IT executive positions. That’s not so much a media bias, but instead is a reflection of what the IT industry really looks like. It’s monotonous and boring, though – and thankfully it’s changing, as evidenced by a recent conference of women in information security, where women explained just how they are succeeding in this fast-growing field. Breaking the glass firewall http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/1117women.html?net

Over the years, the pages of Network World and every other IT publication have been filled with images of white, middle-aged men in IT executive positions. That’s not so much a media bias, but instead is a reflection of what the IT industry really looks like. It’s monotonous and boring, though – and thankfully it’s changing, as evidenced by a recent conference of women in information security, where women explained just how they are succeeding in this fast-growing field.

Breaking the glass firewall

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/1117women.html?net

HP hardware units return to black in Q4

HP’s earnings reflect a cautiously advancing optimism in the network world. While Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina wouldn’t exactly say corporate buying is exploding, she did say the enterprise environment is improving.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1120hphardw2.html?net

Vendors show iSCSI storage devices support Windows

In a development that could help to ease the adoption of iSCSI, a protocol for creating storage networks over existing infrastructures, Microsoft has qualified iSCSI products from 14 storage hardware vendors to work with Windows and Microsoft’s iSCSI drivers, the company announced Wednesday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1119vendoshow.html?net

Wireless and wireline can coexist, Extreme CEO says

Wireless LANs will be just another form of access to enterprise networks, says Extreme Networks’ CEO Gordon Stitt. In Las Vegas for a meeting with over 2,000 Avaya sales reps who will be reselling Extreme switches and routers alongside Avaya’s voice-over-IP products, Stitt is upbeat about Extreme’s plan to co-opt WLANs into the enterprise.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1119extreme.html?net