This week on Network World Fusion, 03/15/03

1) Showtime for Linux

1) Microsoft readies pitch on patches

2) Tester’s Challenge: Patching holes

3) IT workers and caffeine: A high-octane affair

4) Technology Insider: Wireless LANs

5) Wireless Wizards: What’s the best way to combat WLAN interference?

6) Management Matters: Zurich Life tackles change management

7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Cutting P2P off at the knees

8) Managing for maximum WAN value

9) 4G Fibre Channel doubles speeds of SANs

10) Encryption restrictions and you

11) Linksys boosts WLAN speeds

12) Foundry extends 10G to the edge

13) Net6 offers twist on remote access

14) Web services project protects healthcare provider

15) Vendors tackle electronic records retention

16) Extreme unites wired, wireless nets

17) Mercury, NetIQ expand apps mgmt. lines

18) AT&T teams up to offer Web services

19) Craftier Web threats hit finance firms

20) NetScreen update expands reach of intrusion detection

20) IPass spreading its Wi-Fi wings

21) Hughes pushes satellite broadband standard

22) Open source database improvements grow

23) Cisco raises its security profile

1) Microsoft readies pitch on patches

Microsoft customers this week are hoping to finally evaluate the company’s new patch management tools and hear more about the wide-ranging systems management platform in which those tools will be a key component.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315msmgmt.html

2) Tester’s Challenge: Patching holes

Network World Lab Alliance reviewer Rodney Thayer challenges vendors, such as Microsoft, Apple, Novell and Red Hat, to come up with a uniform way for users to quickly find and learn about all the patches they keep posting.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0315testerschallenge.html

3) IT workers and caffeine: A high-octane affair

Sometimes coffee, soda and ginseng candy just don’t give Ben Robinson the boost he needs. That’s when he turns to the heavy stuff: caffeinated soap.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315widernetcaffeine.html

4) Tehcnology Insider: Wireless LANs

Wireless technology is a hot commodity. We guide you through the various wireless LAN options – 802.11a, b and g – as well as look at some wireless last mile options and a review of WiFi Watchdog. Plus: Tips from the Wireless Wizards and a review of Newbury Network’ WiFi Watchdog.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/techinsider/2004/0315techinsider.html

5) Wireless Wizards: What’s the best way to combat WLAN interference?

The Wizards help a user squlech interference from other wireless LANs.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0315wizards.html

6) Management Matters: Zurich Life tackles change management

This is the first of a series of online-only articles, in which Senior Writer Denise Dubie looks enterprise network managers’ innovative use of management products.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315mm1.html

7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Cutting P2P off at the knees

Ron Nutter helps a user block or limit the filesharing apps that keep popping up on his network.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0315nutter.html

8) Managing for maximum WAN value

How to make sense of wide-area service options and get the best bang for your buck – and your applications.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004//0315perspectives.html

9) 4G Fibre Channel doubles speeds of SANs

The 4G bit/sec Fibre Channel standard boosts the performance of storage-area networks by doubling speed while maintaining backward-compatibility with 1G and 2G bit/sec systems. In addition, 4G bit/sec storage hardware will be available later this year at a cost comparable to today’s 2G bit/sec products.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0315techupdate.html

10) Encryption restrictions and you

Regulations regarding the import and export of encryption products affect buying decisions worldwide.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0315man.html

11) Linksys boosts WLAN speeds

Linksys this week announced a line of 802.11g gear that the company says significantly boosts wireless LAN speeds without the use of proprietary technology.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/0315netlead.html

12) Foundry extends 10G to the edge

Foundry offers 10G switch for wiring closets

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315foundry.html

13) Net6 offers twist on remote access

Net6 has introduced a gateway aimed at letting users gain full network access to corporate applications using a lightweight client or just a Web browser to connect. The company says its Net6 VPN Gateway solves drawbacks of two popular Internet-based access methods: IPSec VPNs and Secure-Sockets-Layer-based remote access.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315vpn.html

14) Web services project protects healthcare provider

Providence, a system of hospitals, clinics and assisted-living complexes in the Northwest with 606,000 members, is in the second phase of a multi-step Web services project that will make medical and other records, which are spread across disparate system

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315providence.html

15) Vendors tackle electronic records retention

Despite a string of corporate governance scandals related to archiving electronic documents, U.S. companies still aren’t vigilant about handling such communications. Many have no policies in place for retaining and destroying e-mail, instant messages and other electronic content, according to a pair of professional organizations.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315content.html

16) Extreme unites wired, wireless nets

Extreme Networks this week plans to roll out a blade that ties wireless LAN access points into the company’s Alpine 3800 wiring closet switches.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315extremewlan.html

17) Mercury, NetIQ expand apps mgmt. lines

Mercury Interactive and NetIQ are separately introducing software they say will help companies automate more of the application management process.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315appmgmt.html

18) AT&T teams up to offer Web services

AT&T is rolling out its first Web services offering, which the company says will let IP users better integrate applications internally, and more easily support customer and other third-party access to specific applications.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315attweb.html

19) Craftier Web threats hit finance firms

The last six months of 2003 saw a fivefold increase in worms and other types of malicious code that attempt to steal personal data from Internet users, according to Symantec’s semiannual Internet Security Threat Report.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315symantec.html

20) NetScreen update expands reach of intrusion detection

NetScreen Technologies is upgrading its intrusion-detection software so it also gathers and parses data about network traffic to reduce false intrusion alarms and pin down sources of network attacks.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315netscreen.html

21) Hughes pushes satellite broadband standard

Satellite service provider Hughes Network Systems is throwing its weight behind an open standard used to transmit satellite broadband signals called IP over Satellite.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315carrhughes.html

22) Open source database improvements grow

Open source databases often still are used in specialized niches. But they are important, even vital, niches for a growing number of corporations: Web portals, e-commerce applications, high-speed Web searching, content management, and most recently, data warehouse reporting.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315specialfocus.html

23) Cisco raises its security profile

Cisco last week announced enhancements to a number of its software products and hardware designed to make corporate networks more resilient to attacks.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0315csiso.html