This week on Network World Fusion, 09/22/03

1) Microsoft begins to flesh out ambitious management platform 2) HP, other vendors bolster utility computing product plans via acquisitions 3) Feature: CSI – Lost e-mails 4) Sector Spotlight: Real-time survival 5) Review: NetWare 6.5 6) Product Peek: SyslogAnalyzer 2.0 7) Review: Exchange Server 2003, Outlook 2003 8) Security notes: Passwords – seven virtues, seven sins 9) Technology Update: XKMS does the heavy work of PKI 10) Management Strategies: Language lessons 11) Server management tools grow up 12) Case study: Bear Stearns is bullish on VoIP 13) Long-haul ‘fiber glut’ persists 14) Wireless Notes: Tales from the WLAN tour 15) Proposed provisioning technology set to go 16) IBM racing ahead with component strategy 17) Enterasys, Netgear target SMB networks 18) Management Notes: Baby steps

1) Review: Wireless LAN switches

2) VeriSign move ignites uproar

3) Regulatory, reliability issues swirl around VoIP

4) Sun in search of a spark

5) Security Notes: A network you can bank on

6) Feature: Cutting 10G costs with copper

7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Enabling reverse DNS

8) Management notes: Management is fundamental

9) Technology Update: Standard helps ease traffic burden

10) Careers: Switching over to sales

11) Microsoft joins Web conference fray

12) AirFlow simplifies WLAN deployment

13) Sprint turns to EDS, IBM

14) Application service providers still alive and kickin’

15) DemoMobile 2003 notebook

16) Cash in hand, Yipes strikes back

17) Netegrity to build Web services security spec

18) Verizon offers data storage services

1) Review: Wireless LAN switches

When it comes to wireless LANs, which matters most: security, provisioning, management or performance? If you answered “all,” there are a bunch of WLAN switch vendors eager for your business. Each vendor in this emerging product category says it delivers all of the above — and more.  We put these claims to the test in one of the most extensive hands-on assessments of WLAN switches. Four companies submitted products: Airespace, Aruba Wireless Networks, Symbol Technologies and Trapeze Networks. See why Airespace and Aruba topped our charts.

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2) VeriSign move ignites uproar

VeriSign’s launch last week of a controversial URL-redirection service has created such a backlash and so many headaches for network managers that workarounds already are surfacing, and mounting pressure might force the company to rethink its strategy.

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3) Regulatory, reliability issues swirl around VoIP

Practitioners of packet telephony will converge this week to hear about the latest advances in voice over IP, at a time when industry ears are ringing over regulatory, interoperability and implementation issues.

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4) Sun in search of a spark

Badly bruised in a slumping high-end Unix server market, Sun is positioning itself to fight back with a new software strategy, a focus on low-end boxes and a promise to take the cost and complexity out of IT.

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5) Security Notes: A network you can bank on

Senior Editor Ellen Messmer takes a look at a sobering new report on potential network security problems faced by large U.S. financial institutions.

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6) Feature: Cutting 10G costs with copper

The idea of lower costs for short-distance applications is driving two IEEE efforts to standardize 10G Ethernet over copper.

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7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Enabling reverse DNS

Ron Nutter helps a user who needs to install reverse DNS to get off a spam blacklist.

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8) Management notes: Management is fundamental

Senior Editor Denise Dubie: “Management software vendors for years have argued that there is no way to get a handle on network performance without investing in their programs. A new study says they may have been right all along.”

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9) Technology Update: Standard helps ease traffic burden

SFlow lets administrators reliably and statistically measure their networks’ performance and traffic impact of all connected applications, users, servers, switches, routers and storage switches.

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10) Careers: Switching over to sales

Some network professionals parlay their technical experience into jobs selling IT products and services.

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11) Microsoft joins Web conference fray 

Microsoft might now be in the Web conferencing business as a service provider, but the company is a far cry from offering the technology as part of its strategy to give corporations a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of enterprise collaboration software.

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12) AirFlow simplifies WLAN deployment

AirFlow Networks last week launched wireless LAN switching products that are intended to simplify corporate WLAN deployments.

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13) Sprint turns to EDS, IBM

Sprint announced last week that it is teaming with two outsourcing powerhouses in an effort to cut its own costs and improve application development.

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14) Application service providers still alive and kickin’

Consolidation allows the market to stay above water.

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15) DemoMobile 2003 notebook

Highlights from last week’s show that spotlighted the best and the brightest upcoming wireless products.

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16) Cash in hand, Yipes strikes back

Yipes is making a comeback bid in metropolitan Ethernet.

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17) Netegrity to build Web services security spec

Netegrity this week will unveil support for emerging security standards in its Web services transaction software, which lets corporations safeguard business-to-business communications using the nascent technology.

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18) Verizon offers data storage services

Verizon last week said it now is offering storage back-up and data-retrieval disaster-recovery services for large corporations.

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