Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Market consolidation drives provisioning, access management integration.
Vendors ready products to reduce errors, improve security.
Gores' bid for Cable & Wireless' U.S. operations is its latest move.
Giveaway seen as an effort to keep customers from moving to Linux.
Service designed to automate attack blocking.
Cisco, Microsoft, Nortel issue fixes in wake of potential attacks.