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Gifts for gamers

* Latest Cool Tools Video: Last-minute gift for the gamer * Featured reader resource

12/29/05

12/26/05

Getting ready for VoIP

A blog confession is still a confession

Cisco enters the battle for a ‘new architecture’

* What is Cisco SONA?

Get office space your way

* More options than ever for small companies or branch offices

Storage buys of 2005

* Vendors in a buying frenzy in 2005

Just how tough is it to manage e-mail?

* Survey on how organizations manage their e-mail systems

Policies for external links

* Why you should have policies governing links to external sites

Good-bye BrainShare Europe…and NetWare?

* BrainShare Europe is no more; the end of NetWare is nigh

Does Cisco have what it takes to run the data center?

* Cisco's move into network, application performance management raises the question of gear vs. software

Bell South to lay off 1,500 managers

* Also: MCI, Microsoft team for VoIP service; Verizon testing Nortel equipment for IMS infrastructure

ATEN, Avocent roll out KVM switches for remote management

* Keyboard-video-mouse devices aimed at making server remote management easier

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Microsoft having a Whale of time with IPSec/SSL VPN hybrid device

* Microsoft teams with Whale to support VPN for large businesses

NetFlash: More ISPs catering to online gamers

* More ISPs catering to online gamers * Last-minute gifts for the gamer * IBM to make network mgmt. buy * Santa delivers more Christmas malware * Companies curb shopping online * Review: SSL VPNs dissected

A potpourri of updates to close out the year

* Patches from Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, others * Beware Santa Claus worm that strikes IM clients * The NSA and domestic surveillance

2005: The year in LANs

* A look back at developments in 2005

The Inmates Take Over

I, Roomba geek

Cool Tools: Last minute holiday gift ideas

New Year’s resolutions

* One small business' to-do list for 2006

Virtela revamps SLAs with billing accuracy and timeliness

* Virtela claims a first for its billing accuracy- and timeliness-based SLAs

The Sony rootkit controversy opens our eyes to hidden threats

* Hidden threats to be on the radar in 2006

Gigabit Ethernet technology as a skill

* Where to get Gigabit Ethernet training

Prepping for WiMAX

* WiMAX: Planning ahead

Microsoft gives network managers time off over the holidays

* A jolly Christmas in the server room

Wrapping up the year in identity management

* What are your thoughts of ID management in 2005 or 2006?

Mailbag: Triple-play services and voice services

* Does competition in small towns exist to keep prices down?