NetFlash: How to be a better networker

Yes, you know how to run your network, and we know that you know. But there’s always room for improvement (as my boss likes to say), and this week Network World makes an extra effort to help you get the most out of your net with a series of how-to articles. We have pointers for maximizing bandwidth, patching systems, tightening WLAN security, negotiating telecom deals and much more. Check it out today. Who knows? You might learn something. Network World’s How-to articles http://www.nwfusion.com/howto/index.html?net

Yes, you know how to run your network, and we know that you know. But there’s always room for improvement (as my boss likes to say), and this week Network World makes an extra effort to help you get the most out of your net with a series of how-to articles. We have pointers for maximizing bandwidth, patching systems, tightening WLAN security, negotiating telecom deals and much more. Check it out today. Who knows? You might learn something.

Network World’s Special Section: How To

https://www.nwfusion.com/howto/index.html?net

Olympic net gets gold security protection

Number of Cisco switches: 1,600. Number of PCs on the network: 10,500. Number of intrusion-detection systems: 120. Having the Olympics take place without an information security breach on an international stage: priceless.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1201olympics.html?net

Start-up manages storage with grids

Start-up ExaGrid is looking to change the way businesses handle data backup and recovery with a grid-computing system for storage. The company, which launched last month, has designed what it calls a Grid Protected Storage architecture: a mix of standards-based servers, disks, Ethernet switching and WAN technology fashioned into an end-to-end system for replicating data to remote sites. ExaGrid says its system is faster and more reliable than disk-to-tape or disk-to-disk back-up technologies.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1201exagrid.html?net

Mirage protects the LAN

Mirage Networks is wheeling out an appliance designed to halt quick-spreading, LAN-based worms and viruses by neutralizing individual infected machines rather than cordoning off entire parts of affected networks.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1201mirage.html?net