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1) Showtime for Linux
1) Security tools target inside jobs
2) McNealy: Don’t dismiss us in data centers
3) XP fix previews impact of a more secure Windows
4) Wireless switching debate wrap-up
5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Which Linux certification to choose?
6) A Wider Net: What’s in a product code name?
7) Extreme server makeovers
8) Wireless Wizards: Can cities regulate Wi-Fi?
9) Review: Inkra Networks’ 1518TX Virtual Service Switch
10) Technology Update: IPMI V2.0 eases blade management
11) Management Strategies: Securing mobile assets
12) Schools rethink network security
13) Blades raise heat, power issues
14) Lucent unveils wireless multimedia system
15) Feeling vulnerable? Try assessment tools
16) Healthcare IT execs share their wish lists
17) Siemens to launch high-end IP PBX
18) Wireless: Backstage with Craig Mathias
19) Science center switches to open source
20) Who’s responsible for cybersecurity?
21) Wireless grabs spotlight at Spring VON
At the NetWorld+Interop show next month, Network World Editorial Director John Gallant will co-host a customer roundtable on metro Ethernet services with the Metro Ethernet Forum. Going to N+I and want to attend? Drop John a note at jgallant@nww.com (or write him even if you just want to make sure a particular question gets put to the vendors.
— Adam Gaffin, executive editor, agaffin@nww.com
1) Security tools target inside jobs
For a decade, corporations have erected perimeter defenses to keep Internet attackers at bay. Now IT managers are under pressure to deal with an even bigger challenge: keeping insiders from using the Internet to leak valuable business data.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405insideout.html
2) McNealy: Don’t dismiss us in data centers
Sun CEO Scott McNealy talks about everything from Java to Linux in a Network World Q&A.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405mcnealy.html
3) XP fix previews impact of a more secure Windows
Companies testing XP SP2 say users will have to change the way they develop applications and build networks to compensate for the security changes Microsoft is making to its desktop and server operating systems.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405winxp.html
4) Wireless switching debate wrap-up
If you missed the debate last week, it’s all still online for your perusal – see what wireless-switch vendors had to say about their wares, the industry and each other.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1242
5) Nutter’s Help Desk: Which Linux certification to choose?
Ron Nutter helps a user figure out where to put his training dollars.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0405nutter.html
6) A Wider Net: What’s in a product code name?
Shark sticks, Butt-Head Astronomer doesn’t. While most technology companies do not have official policies on how they create product code names, they are almost always dreamed up by engineers with the understanding that the code names will be for internal use only.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405widernetcodenames.html
7) Extreme server makeovers
Server consolidation has become one of those inescapable trends in the computer industry – everyone, it seems, is either doing it, planning to do it or thinking they should be doing it.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0405makeover.html
8) Wireless Wizards: Can cities regulate Wi-Fi?
The Wizard discuss possible municipal regulation.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0405wizards.html
9) Review: Inkra Networks’ 1518TX Virtual Service Switch
The devil’s in the details of this virtual security switch.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0405rev.html
10) Technology Update: IPMI V2.0 eases blade management
Server vendors developed the IPMI standard for cross-platform system management. The new release features stronger security and standardized console access.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0405techupdate.html
11) Management Strategies: Securing mobile assets
Policies are key in procuring and tracking wireless devices throughout your company.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2004/0405man.html
12) Schools rethink network security
Computer worms and viruses continue to besiege colleges and universities, which are responding with a range of network security improvements.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405appscampus.html
13) Blades raise heat, power issues
At the recent Server Blade Summit in San Jose, attendees saw firsthand how the increase in power demands from the densely packed systems could affect enterprise data centers: An interoperability demonstration of working blade systems caused the power in the Wyndham Hotel that hosted the conference to flicker on and off sporadically throughout the event.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405blades.html
14) Lucent unveils wireless multimedia system
Lucent recently unveiled a system designed to enable wireless operators to offer VoIP and IP-based multimedia services.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405lucent.html
15) Feeling vulnerable? Try assessment tools
Come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better be conducting quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last fall that it won’t do business with them otherwise.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405specialfocus.html
16) Healthcare IT execs share their wish lists
Vendors’ pricing models are lacking. Better tools are needed to sift through piles of data. Trying before buying is key. Those were sentiments expressed by a range of technology buyers from healthcare and pharmaceutical companies on a panel hosted by Ernst & Young at last week’s Bio-IT World conference.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405bioit.html
17) Siemens to launch high-end IP PBX
Borrowing technology from its carrier softswitches, Siemens has developed an enterprise network-level IP PBX it says companies can use to consolidate telephony setups based on distributed regional and branch office systems.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405siemens.html
18) Wireless: Backstage with Craig Mathias
IT managers are being pulled in all directions regarding wireless technology. What is the best way for them to decide if WLAN technology fits into their network? Craig Mathias highlights changes in the WLAN industry.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405mathias.html
19) Science center switches to open source
It’s using Gluecode’s Advanced Server portal software, which is part of a new suite announced last week. Gluecode Enterprise Server 3.5 combines the vendor’s enterprise portal framework and security management tools with business process management capabilities.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405gluecode.html
20) Who’s responsible for cybersecurity?
The debate over whether corporate network executives or their software suppliers should shoulder the burden for improving the nation’s cybersecurity is shifting direction as pressure mounts for vendors to ship safer products.
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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405cybersecurity.html
21) Wireless grabs spotlight at Spring VON
The combination of VoIP over Wi-Fi and traditional cellular phone services made a splash at last week’s Spring VON 2004 conference, although observers say key obstacles need to be cleared before companies realize promised costs savings from using these technologies in tandem.
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