Opinion

The “Green Grid”, a new kind of super hero comes to town

Automated-call glitch rekindles national debate on political speech tactics

Extreme Networks all over Interop

* Extreme's profile at Interop continues to be high

Don’t send a $5,000 e-mail without thinking

Database tricks

Getting rid of the rest of the cruft

The week’s most-read stories; Microsoft won’t sue over Linux – yet

* All the most-read stories of the week

FCC approves iPhone

New storage products and acquisitions

* Small business storage options getting better

Messaging should be up in the air

* The communications procedures airlines have in place seem so "1970s"

HP offers helping hand with blades

* HP Proactive BladeSystem Service

What’s the oldest piece of equipment still running in your environment?

* Anybody remember the acoustic coupler?

More branch office bundling

* Packeteer’s new device combines acceleration, compression, performance monitoring and a range of Microsoft services

NetApp gets in the dedupe game

* NearStore R200 dedupes

Identification isn’t enough

* Identifying someone doesn't necessarily tell you much

NAC for the branch

* Vernier Networks introduces NAC for small and branch offices

The fragility of road-warrior security

SMBs emerge from the enterprise shadow

IBM contractor loses employee data; IBM opens sales center in Second Life

Top 10 things Microsoft loves and hates about open source; 5 companies Microsoft should buy

A day with the ‘Can you hear me now?’ guy; A quarter of under-30s now go cell-only

Outsourcing firms taken to the woodshed over H-1B use; Attracting younger crowd to IT

Cisco confirms HTTP unicode encoding evasion; Microsoft tweaks Patch Tuesday advance notification

Apple TV: A big iPod for your television

Cisco routers cause major outage; What tests should you run on your WLAN?

Samba patches critical bug

* Patches from Samba, Ubuntu, rPath, others * Botnet management app exposed * Whirlpool takes Cisco NAC for a spin, and other interesting reading

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The trick to testing WAN optimization tools

* Aerohive turns controller-based WLANs inside out

The Tao of IT: Lesson 1,266

IT’s Endless Work