Opinion

Getting D-Link and Cisco switches to talk via fibre GBICs

Any value in buying best of breed?

NetFlash: Cisco broadens security family

* Cisco broadens security family * Security-vendor buys see mixed reactions * AJAX is the future of Web app development * Telecommuting isn't all that, survey says * Q&A: HP exec looks at IT evolution * Today on Layer 8

Cool summer tools, a changing security market, more

Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.

Allied Telesyn launches new lineup of switches aimed at SMBs

Microsoft pulls the plug on outdated products

NTP targets storage chargeback

Securing a public CVS system; Getting D-Link and Cisco switches to talk via fibre GBICs

Building switches that spot intrusions

* The future of intrusion-detection and -prevention is a function within the network switch

EMC + RSA = New force in data security

* Why the EMC/RSA deal will work

EEye warns of flaw in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

* Patches from Debian, OpenPKG, Ubuntu, Mandriva and others * New PowerPoint flaw used in attacks

Unbundling IOS affects all areas of IT

Error Message of the Week

Listen up!

Who picks astronaut wake-up music?

‘Imitation iPod’ takes over radio

Feds to e-mail you in case of emergency

NetFlash: Consortium builds super firewall to stop DDoS

* Consortium builds super firewall to stop DDoS * The life and death of Microsoft’s software * Intel to introduce dual-core Itanium - finally * See what's on your flash drive * Buzzblog: Metcalfe's Law is really, really wrong… still * Today on Layer

Tumbleweed releases corporate e-mail security appliance

Aventail automates SSL VPN setup

What’s new in Firefox 2.0

Google set to invade Michigan

Metcalfe’s Law is really, really wrong … still

Your washer’s calling and the dryer’s on IM

House passes online gambling ban bill

MySpace beats Yahoo, Google

Red paper clip guy gets his house

IRS wants to liberate our tax returns

* Proposed IRS rule changes raise privacy alarms

Blue Coat adds business process to bandwidth mgmt.

* Blue Coat updates its Multiprotocol Accelerated Caching Hierarchy technology

TCP shows its smarts in packet retransmissions

* TCP, UDP, IP and packet retransmission