Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
Disk has established its role as a primary storage technology, but tape sticks around to back it up
Crackberry goes deeper, broader, while Palm plays Linux card
What it the most cost-effective way to manage your data center environment.
Interop keynotes, vendors and sessions focus on energy efficiency
Work without pay, flaming iPods, spammers in Hell
NightWatchman centralizes and automates PC shutdowns
Messaging systems went toe-to-toe in years leading to today’s real-time communications bundle battle.
Gartner predicted intrusion-detection systems would be dead by 2005
Microsoft bested its sometimes partner IBM on the operating system front
Internet Explorer now owns about 80% of the browser market, something Netscape Navigator was closing in on itself at one time.
IBM and its VAX killers bested Digital Equipment Corp. in this 1980s rivalry
Directory services battle took turn with advent of Internet
Responsible security flaw disclosure debate gets ever more complicated.
IBM-Cisco squared off in this acrimonious fight
