This week on Network World Fusion, 05/03/04

1) Cisco to revamp IOS software 2) High-end router on tap 3) “Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur?” contest 4) Network pros: You oughta be in pictures 5) Users turn to virtual data marts 6) Security holes force firms to rethink coding processes 7) Manufacturers ready RFID rollouts 8) Review: Network configuration management 9) Technology Update: SMTPi authenticates e-mail senders 10) Wireless Wizards: Can we improve client wireless transmissions? 11) Management Strategies: Instilling IT governance 12) DoD pumps up RFID effort 13) Sun redirects server technology 14) Wireless data service options explode 15) Nutter’s Help Desk: Reverse DNS 16) Users ponder Microsoft security plan 17) Storage management standard advances 18) AirFlow backs out of WLAN switches 19) Mendocino revives continuous data

1) New column: Server Sleuths

2) Vendors to target XML traffic jam

3) Product palooza at N+I

4) RFID everywhere: From amusement parks to blood supplies

5) Wireless Wizards: Should we go wireless in our data center?

6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Moving to Small Business Server

7) Howdy, pardner! Vendors rush to voice over wireless

8) VoWi-Fi calls to users

9) Review: When your Exchange server goes down

10) Technology Update: IPoS expands reach of satellite apps

11) B2B acquisitions highlight data quality

12) Freeware and shareware help monitor nets

13) Opteron servers handle growth of Weather.com

14) MCI strengthens security services

15) CEO Dunn’s done, but what of Nortel?

16) DoD issues wireless defense orders

17) VoIP veterans swap stories and share advice

18) Mesh networks winning converts

19) IBM expands SMB offerings

1) New column: Server Sleuths

The Server Sleuths join the Wireless Wizards this week in helping you crack the tough networking cases. Each week, our panel of Sleuths will answer reader questions on server management, so get those questions ready! This week, Joe Fitzgerald, CTO and Director of Product Development of HP Orchestration (formerly Novadigm) discusses how to secure your servers. Got a question? Write the Sleuths at sleuths@nwfusion.com

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2) Vendors to target XML traffic jam

Looking to help customers rein in the growing traffic created by XML and Web services applications, a slew of vendors are developing gigabit-speed silicon that ultimately might be found in equipment throughout corporate networks.

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3) Product palooza at N+I

A rebounding NetWorld+Interop will showcase a bevy of new switching, security and management wares two weeks from now in Las Vegas, but it will be the show’s swan song at the Las Vegas Convention Center. – for the latest news from the show – our show planner

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4) RFID everywhere: From amusement parks to blood supplies

Early adopter is ‘labeled the devil’ for dabbling in wireless.

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5) Wireless Wizards: Should we go wireless in our data center?

The Wizards answer a user who wonders whether wireless technology will help him monitor his data center – or whether all those metal racks will block wireless signals.

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6) Nutter’s Help Desk: Moving to Small Business Server

Ron Nutter advises a user on what to expect if he replaces Windows 2000 Pro with SMS.

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7) Howdy, pardner! Vendors rush to voice over wireless 

Today’s nascent voice-over-Wi-Fi market offers mobility-hungry companies a growing array of pre-standard products, often backed by troika partnerships that the handset, wireless LAN infrastructure and PBX players are forming to piece together complete solutions.

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8) VoWi-Fi calls to users

Organizations venturing into pre-standard VoWi-Fi waters are being driven by a critical need for real-time voice and data services. The retail, logistics/warehousing, manufacturing and education sectors are among the early adopters, but healthcare is leading the charge.

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9) Review: When your Exchange server goes down

WANSync HA Exchange beats out three others for our Clear Choice designation in our test of Microsoft Exchange disaster-recovery wares

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10) Technology Update: IPoS expands reach of satellite apps

IP over Satellite, which the Telecommunications Industry Association ratified as TIA-1008 in November 2003, is the only industry standard optimized for delivering IP broadband services over two-way satellite channels.

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11) B2B acquisitions highlight data quality

Three vendors with roots in business-to-business integration have snapped up data synchronization specialists in recent weeks, highlighting the growing importance of data quality in electronic transactions.

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12) Freeware and shareware help monitor nets

A look at some tools that can help round out your management toolbox at little to no charge.

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13) Opteron servers handle growth of Weather.com

Traffic to Weather.com, the Internet arm of cable television’s The Weather Channel, has been snowballing, as the company’s management continues to push for more robust and customized services. Those facts are keeping Dan Agronow, the Web site’s vice president of technology, on his toes as he searches for the best infrastructure to support the content, without breaking the bank.

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14) MCI strengthens security services

Fresh out of bankruptcy, MCI last week introduced a slew of services that the carrier says show it is getting increasingly serious about security.

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15) CEO Dunn’s done, but what of Nortel?

Nortel customers should stay put until the dust settles after last week’s ouster of CEO Frank Dunn, users and analysts say.

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16) DoD issues wireless defense orders

After two years of internal policy debate, the U.S. Department of Defense last week issued rules that all branches of the military – as well as contractors and visitors – must follow to secure commercial wireless equipment and services.

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17) VoIP veterans swap stories and share advice

Corporate IT professionals from small companies to the largest Fortune 500 firms convened last week at the Enterprise Networks 2004 conference in Boston to swap stories and advice on how to make VoIP work and the reasons for converging voice and data networks.

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18) Mesh networks winning converts

Mesh nets use complex algorithms for automatic discovery, routing and fast handoffs. Nodes in a mesh find each other and can route around failures or congestion. Vendors say these multiple pathways boost the reliability and capacity of wireless networks. There is no single point of failure, as there is in traditional hub-and-spoke networks.

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19) IBM expands SMB offerings

IBM last week added to its Express line of software and services for companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees. The new offerings target remote network management, recovery, and more.

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