* Vendors to target XML traffic jam * Freeware and shareware help monitor nets * CEO Dunn's done, but what of Nortel? * Opteron servers handle growth of Weather.com * Today on Layer 8
XML is a great enabler for Web services, but it’s a bear to process. XML-based traffic is expected to eat up 25% of all bandwidth in a couple years, and XML parsing could have a “potentially fatal impact” on transaction-oriented applications, according to researchers. That means we need processors dedicated to the task, and a lot of them. Vendors are turning their attention to this problem, and the solution could affect many of your servers, storage systems, routers and switches. Vendors to target XML traffic jam http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503xmlaccel.html?net
XML is a great enabler for Web services, but it’s a bear to process. XML-based traffic is expected to eat up 25% of all bandwidth in a couple years, and XML parsing could have a “potentially fatal impact” on transaction-oriented applications, according to researchers. That means we need processors dedicated to the task, and a lot of them. Vendors are turning their attention to this problem, and the solution could affect many of your servers, storage systems, routers and switches.
Vendors to target XML traffic jam
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503xmlaccel.html?net
Freeware and shareware help monitor nets
Every once in a while Network World pauses to highlight useful network management tools that can be had for a song. This week is one of those times – and you may start to wonder why you paid as much as you did for your network management system.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503specialfocus.html?net
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. Nortel as a company is not going away, observers say. The company is merely cleaning up its management ranks while it and the Securities and Exchange Commission continue investigating accounting practices that are forcing Nortel to restate financial results going back to 2000.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503dunndeal.html?net
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.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0503weathercom.html?net
Today on Layer 8, now entering our favorite time of the year, May sweeps:
Google IPO kneecaps SEC Web site; The dark side of being a ‘Net icon; Fly as the Pope on British Airways; and the winner of our latest caption contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
