Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail newsletters at http://www.nwfusion.com/focus
1) Showtime for Linux
1) ‘Next EDI’ gains key proponent
2) Grids moving beyond science
3) Porn scanning: Someone has to do it
4) Wireless Wizards: What’s up with wireless mesh networking?
5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Backing up an Exchange server
6) How to: Fending off spyware
7) Security Notes: Reliable intrusion prevention
8) Review: Patch management
9) Technology Update: Virtualization downsizes the data center
10) Management Strategies: Weaving through the red tape
11) SIP is hip at Monster.com
12) Options shrink for ID management
13) Softswitch market gaining momentum
14) Special Focus: Point-of-sale systems gain smarts
15) AOL tests anti-spam technology
16) ComNet changes focus to boost show
17) IBM/Lotus plans to tie it all together
18) LinuxWorld: Users swap strategies
Editor’s note: We’re redesigning Fusion to make it more useful. The redesign launches on Monday and will feature easier navigation and new features (look for more emphasis on useful links in our Research Centers, as well as an all new Data Center area) – with room to add even more useful stuff over the coming year. We’ll begin switching the site over to the new look and feel this weekend – so my apologies in advance if you connect to Fusion on Saturday or Sunday and find what appear to be garbled pages. Once we do go live with the new design, let me know what you think.agaffin@nww.com
— Adam Gaffin, executive editor,
1) ‘Next EDI’ gains key proponent
A major commitment from the Department of Defense is expected to give a critical boost to a Web-based, business-to-business communications framework that supporters call the next EDI.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126dod.html
2) Grids moving beyond science
A few years ago, Daniel Kaberon never would have considered deploying any of his applications on a grid-computing environment. Now he can’t imagine life without the distributed technology. Learn how grid computing is finding a foothold – and fans – in the enterprise.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126grid.html
3) Porn scanning: Someone has to do it
Behind the scenes with the people who get paid to view porn so you don’t have to.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126widernetporn.html
4) Wireless Wizards: What’s up with wireless mesh networking?
The Wizards help a user who needs to cover a large area with a wireless network.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0126wizards.html
5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Backing up an Exchange server
Ron Nutter helps a user who needs to find a quicker way to save the data on his Exchange server.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0126nutter.html
6) How to: Fending off spyware
How to detect, defend and fight back against insidious attacks from cookies gone bad.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0126spy.html
7) Security Notes: Reliable intrusion prevention
Senior Editor Ellen Messmer analyzes a new report that finds IPS has become reliable enough to make it a network requirement.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/003971.html
8) Review: Patch management
In our test of SecurityProfiling’s SysUpdate 4.1.4 with its new Policy Compliance and Enforcement Module 1.0, we found that while the product is moving in the right direction toward policy-based patch management, it’s still a little rough around the edges.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0126rev.html
9) Technology Update: Virtualization downsizes the data center
Data centers run an array of computing, storage and network systems that creates management challenges and strains IT resources. There’s a growing need to simplify and automate data center networks to make them run smarter and more efficiently. Network virtualization technology is key to accomplishing that goal.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0126techupdate.html
10) Management Strategies: Weaving through the red tape
IT executives learn the ropes of working with IT oversight committees that examine their spending.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0126man.html
11) SIP is hip at Monster.com
Monster.com VP Aaron Branham talks about the benefits of SIP technology, productivity gains and more
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126infmonster.html
12) Options shrink for ID management
End users and vendors are evaluating their identity management efforts as the long-anticipated convergence of provisioning and access management software matures.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126accessmgmt.html
13) Softswitch market gaining momentum
RBOCs start to unveil their plans, signaling the technology isn’t just for smaller carriers.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126softswitch.html
14) Special Focus: Point-of-sale systems gain smarts
Cash registers take on inventory management, customer service roles.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126specialfocus.html
15) AOL tests anti-spam technology
Deluged by spam, AOL is trying a new technology for cracking down on a common spammer tool: forged sender addresses used to bypass blacklists and trick unsuspecting recipients.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126aol.html
16) ComNet changes focus to boost show
A relocated, scaled-down ComNet 2004 opens its doors this week promising practical tips for IT executives, as well as product and service unveilings from Foundry Network, NetScout, Quick Eagle and Sprint.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126comnet.html
17) IBM/Lotus plans to tie it all together
Company to use Lotusphere to map out its commitment to Domino, Lotus Workplace.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0126lotus.html
18) LinuxWorld: Users swap strategies
Stronger Linux support from software vendors and the ability to control the open source software is spurring large corporations to accelerate their adoption of Linux, according to users who spoke last week at LinuxWorld Expo 2004.
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