Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
General Mills, Clorox, Procter & Gamble among early adopters
Raise IT’s profile by rotating jobs, ditching jargon and dressing the part, they say
Having won a piece of Networx, goal now is to woo individual agencies
Wireless options include draft 802.11n, integrated cellular
Better customer support in the works, vendors say
Survey data reveals more companies bringing technology leaders into business strategy discussions
FBI says malware currently purview of loosely organized criminals
Systems require network, applications, communications groups to cooperate
New module includes authentication, compliance reporting
New integrated planning function provides long-term view
Branch Services Gateway includes firewall, VPN, traffic shaping and PBX
Cooperative AP architecture creates simpler, cheaper wireless LAN, company says
ThinkPlace Challenge designed to spur innovation and economic development
Bugs, hardware requirements, unclear benefits are top Vista issues
Company pledges agnosticism in response to MPLS/PBT issue
Symantec says scam activated by Trojan.kardphisher
CIOs moving to a hybrid organizational model for IT, some experts say
Mobile-application developers, service delivery managers among challenging new jobs
Embedded IT staff, IT governance, taking on bigger projects among focus areas
Developing overall security plan is key benefit, CIO says
Popular Linux-based virtualization and failover technologies help put together a robust high availability and disaster-recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange -- without upgrading the Exchange software itself.
iShaper boosts response times, provides a range of office services
Global Services division reportedly the target, but analysts say layoff rumor inaccurate, ‘ludicrous’
