Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
HP user group members tell of blue screens of death and what can happen when a UPS beeps
Voyence to bring change and configuration-management technology
Files motion to move patent countersuits from plaintiff-friendly Texas district to Silicon Valley
Creating simulated wartime environments takes close collaboration, but it’s the process rather than the tools that determines success
Web 2.0 technology helps the financial firm’s call-center agents get better information to clients faster, proving its mettle for more widespread use
Presence-based collaboration tools help employees shake the e-mail habit, make decisions faster and save millions of hours of time
Market heavyweights -- BMC, CA, HP and IBM – have overcome a slew of nimble start-ups promising innovative tools that were easy to deploy and cost less.
Onetime LAN technology Ethernet mixes it up in the WAN.
IBM didn’t win this argument
Cisco ruled with routing, then swept into switching as well.
IT managers might not like agents, but say they’re often necessary
Service model gaining momentum, even at Microsoft.
Role of Internet firewall comes into sharp question
Only Juniper has given Cisco a real challenge in the end
Microsoft fighting open source even as it embraces it.
Quad-core processors latest battlefront for AMD, Intel.
Migration has been gradual, but the move to IPv6 could speed up with IPv4 addresses running out
