Opinion

My backup stupid penalty

* Too many PC gotchas still getcha

Research details common customer-application performance pain points

* Why is the app performing so badly for end users?

Who in your company first notices when apps performance starts to degrade?

* End users are often the first to shout when apps have slowed

How much does e-mail really cost in your organization?

* Messaging decision-makers don't know how much it costs their organizations to provide messaging systems

Novell systems engineers: You are sorely missed (unless you’re a big customer)

* Where have all the systems engineers gone (to visit with the big accounts)

Ohio University coping with information breaches

* Ohio University's response to security violation

Latest Linksys VPN router for small businesses is a cut-above the consumer boxes

* Linksys releases two small-business VPN routers priced at $130 and $200

IBM introduces processing monsters

* IBM's latest servers use gaming consoles technology to soup up performance

Larger disks poised to change the RAID playing field

* RAID 5 rebuilds and other horrors

Capex climbing

* Worldwide telecom capital expenditures increase for third year in a row

The most-read stories in July

Welcome to The Best of Network World. Here is this week's Readers' Choice, with the most-clicked stories of the month.

SMC upgrades ‘smart’ switch

* SMC's newest switch

NetFlash: FBI joins with industry to tackle ID theft

* FBI joins with industry to tackle ID theft * IBM makes third SOA buy with Webify purchase * Black Hat: NAC solutions vulnerable to attack * Intel issues patches for wireless vulnerabilities * An inconvenient truth about IPv6 * Cool Tools Video: Ful

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New Mac updates available from Apple

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IBM to acquire MRO Software for $740 million

Black Hat: NAC solutions vulnerable to attack

Mercury CEO says HP acquisition thrills customers

Full-motion video from pictures

Vonage IPO Update #5: The Sinking Ship

Backspin This Week: SOA or a kit car? Am I nuts?

Takes a licking instead of clicking

GigE and AMD

Ruling will have reporters acting like drug dealers

What Microsoft’s Zune really looks like

Women prefer gadgets to shoes

IM won’t signal death of English language

YouTube knocks off MySpace

An inconvenient truth about IPv6

* The Social Security Administration has yet to find one concrete benefit of the upgrade to IPv6

Bane of net administrator’s existence remains security

* Security is biggest WLAN worry, though confidence improves