Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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
AT&T breakup comes nearly full circle 20-plus years later
Cable modem and DSL competition has led to lower broadband prices
Verizon, AT&T, Google and others have staked out positions
Start-ups ganged up against IBM in PC market.
TDM did its job, but no stopping move to VoIP and converged networks
Reliable enough secure Internet connections proved attractive frame alternative
Circuit switching had availability going for it, packet switching had cost effectiveness
Horse is out of the barn on this one – question is how much to outsource
This WAN argument came down to packets vs. cells
IPSec arrived first on VPN scene, but SSL has won converts with its simplicity.
QoS pays off in the WAN, if not in the LAN.
While iSCSI hasn’t supplanted Fibre Channel in the enterprise, its popularity is growing
Microsoft finally made headway against NetWare with Windows NT Server
Time Machine and Boot Camp stand out among the 300 new features in Apple’s Leopard
Start-ups pushed Cisco to take different point of view.
Abandoning wired links proving not so crazy after all as 802.11n emerges.
Patent, interoperability wars almost sink high-speed modems
VMware has been really, really successful in virtualization -- and competitors want a piece of the action.
