Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
IBM releases WebSphere Product Center middleware.
Juniper CEO Scott Kriens checks in with Computerworld at Interop Las Vegas 2006.
Cisco's market dominance in business networks makes it an uninteresting investment area for VCs and fund managers.
Quantum plans to buy tape vendor ADIC.
Management key to diffusing problems with desktop search tools.
Caribou Coffee Company smells success with IBM's post-of-sale gear
XO Holdings reintroduces Nextlink, provider of fixed broadband wireless services.
Explorer Destroyer launches aggressive campaign to get users to switch from IE to Firefox.
Bandwidth-acceleration devices provide an easily implemented money-saving measure.
Company integrates new platform into firewall, SIP and IM security appliances.
Current Microsoft managment products garner good reviews; questions dog long-range plan.
Intel, AMD build virtualization and management features into their x86 processors.
Network infrastructure vendors weave security into the fabric of routers and switches.
RFID vendors, users and consumer groups publish set of besst practices for use of RFID tags.
Symantec works with financial institutions, security vendors and retailers to help fight phishing.
Apparent Networks and NetScout evolve their network tools to better monitor application performance.
Enterays, Foundry and Siemens also expanded IP telephony lines.
Accelerators from Citrix, Crescendo and WAN caching hardware from Expand are on tap.
Oral arguments to be heard this week in ACE vs. FCC petition over CALEA.