Opinion

All-in-one boxes eliminate branch office hidden costs

* The UTM / services gateway space is piquing the interest of IT decision-makers

Certeon unveils secure application acceleration appliance

* Certeon Secure Application Networking WAN product

VMware, Novell, AMD, SWsoft are in the mood for virtualization

* Virtualization news roundup

Layoff survival strategies

* Job-Hunt.org Webmaster Susan Joyce offers advice on dealing with being laid off

What slows down app performance over WANs?

* Elements that affect app performance

Data center consolidation and stripping the branch office

* Two trends at work on data centers

Book details deception techniques and countermeasures

* Book review: Frauds, Spies and Lies and How to Defeat Them

Cisco bumps up ASA drives to support SSL VPN, filter worms, spam

* Cisco gives ASA drives the full works

InfiniBand: Back to the beginning

* A little history of InfiniBand

SSL VPNs dissected

* Groundbreaking test evaluates 11 products on the basis of interoperability, security, policy and high availability

NetFlash: Nortel spins off blade server switch business

* Nortel spins off blade server switch business * Cisco launches security mgmt. platform * Microsoft shoves BlackBerry with push e-mail * Face-off: Is 'security in the cloud' the way to go? * IBM on the Hot Seat * Colorado school seeks to expand grid

Nortel spins off blade server switch business

Extreme, AirTight partner on security

* Extreme Networks to use AirTight Networks’ security software

A scoring system for telephone support; NetScanTools Pro: A networking Swiss Army knife

Buzzblog’s ‘official’ debut

Ultimate Touchscreen

Movies and IT Heroes

Grownup talk re: Google/China

Hot Seat: Model-driven business transformation

Our very latest Caption Contest

Someone lost a bet

E-mail signature quote of the week

Caption Contest winner

Verizon Business beefs up its Internet telephony services

* Verizon Business adds features to its IP Flexible T-1 offering

An iPod as a legislative force

Everdream offers desktop management as a service

* With Everdream SMBs can have the benefit of enterprise-class desktop management services

Letters to the editor: “Cisco AON: Fight fire with fire”

SOA platform vendors will own ESB market

Downsizing outsourcing

ActiveGrid as an alternative to Java

* The ActiveGrid Application Builder suite