Sometimes you just have to spend the money

Sometimes you just have to spend the money

Ken Presti didn’t cut off his nose to spite his face, but he almost had his nose cut off to spite his wallet. The IDC research director (and former Network World newsletter author) guest-stars in our op-ed pages this week with some thoughts on fencing, system integrators and saving a buck or two.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1027presti.html?vo

Seminar preview

Kevin Tolly is about to take his show on the road. In a series of free seminars, he and several handpicked vendors will discuss building a network strategy for the coming year, given all that has transpired this year.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1027tolly.html?vo

It does wonders

This week’s Tester’s Choice is VMware. Joel Snyder explains that VMware has helped make his job of testing network equipment a whole lot easier – and for that he is grateful.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1027testerschoice.html?vo

Content sharing could slow enterprise networks

Many enterprise companies worry that their employees’ time is wasted by online diversions. But Tom Nolle points out that such diversions can seriously eat into the network bandwidth needed by a company’s bread-and-butter applications – especially when it comes to music or video downloads.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1027nolle.html?vo