NetFlash: Influential user group defines security needs

An influential user group is preparing a document to establish enterprise security architectures, giving users a guideline for buying security software. Just how influential is the group? The Network Applications Consortium represents companies with a combined $750 billion in revenue, 50,000 servers and a million workstations. When the group speaks, vendors listen – and this security architecture document may well change the way security software is bought and sold. User group defines security needs http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0426nac.html?net

An influential user group is preparing a document to establish enterprise security architectures, giving users a guideline for buying security software. Just how influential is the group? The Network Applications Consortium represents companies with a combined $750 billion in revenue, 50,000 servers and a million workstations. When the group speaks, vendors listen – and this security architecture document may well change the way security software is bought and sold.

User group defines security needs

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0426nac.html?net

Offshoring foes protest at IBM annual meeting

“Emotional attachment” doesn’t fit into the forward-looking business model of IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, and that has ticked off employees, some of whom demonstrated at the company’s annual meeting yesterday. IBM views offshore outsourcing as a vital part of an international company, but employees don’t appreciate being treated “like commodities, not like assets.”

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0427offshfoes.html?net

Boeing, NTT DoCoMo eye Internet roaming deal

NTT DoCoMo has signed a memorandum of understanding with The Boeing Co. that is expected to lead to its wireless LAN customers being able to access Boeing in-flight Internet services through their NTT DoCoMo accounts.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0427boeinnttd.html?net

FalconStor unveils iSCSI for NAS

FalconStor launched an iSCSI storage server Monday at the Storage Decisions conference in New York.

https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2004/0427iscsi.html?net

Today on Layer 8, launching virtual spitballs from the back of the class:

Excel addicts unite; rating TV brainiacs; my brain feels your pain; and I love – really love – my PC; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.

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