Microsoft promoted its Active Directory early, but now competitors have flown by, surpassing Microsoft’s effort with more complete identity management systems. The company now finds itself trying to catch up, and this week will lay out its plan. Will it be “marketing veneer,” as one observer put it, or will there be substance?
Microsoft taking on identity mgmt.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0630microsoft.html?net
See Network World’s Identity Management Newsletter:
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/index.html?net
Prices drop for high-end net gear
Fierce competition in LAN switches is fueling big features at small prices for wiring closets. This week, we take a look at several recent price cuts that can give your network more bang for the buck.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0630switches.html?net
Cisco aims for IPv6 firewalls
Attacking one of the key problems early adopters have had with IPv6, Cisco plans to beef up security, adding support for stateful packet filtering of IPv6 traffic to its software and hardware firewall products in the first half of next year.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0627ciscoaims.html?net
Researchers power up server clusters
Software being developed by a computer science professor at Duke University could help spur so-called utility computing technology that promises to offer users self-managing systems that grow and shrink in response to user demand.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0630cluster.html?net
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