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This week on Network World Fusion, 01/18/05

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Moving towards monitoring

HP boosts Itanium 2 servers

Road warrior’s notebook

* Work’s not a place anymore, but then neither is home

Top 10 data center dangers

* IDC-MCS survey of hundreds of data centers reveals top data center problems

Mailbag: Thoughts on misusing the CAN-SPAM Act

* Readers weigh in on the potential for misapplication of the CAN-SPAM Act

Nortel completes $100 million financial restatements

* Company also appoints chief ethics and compliance officer

ILM key for regulatory compliance

* Information lifecycle management

Select Comfort rests easy with Network Instruments

* Select Comfort happy with Network Instruments’ Observer

Hacker wars

When Red Hat installs go bad

Windows cooperating with Linux, honest!

CES: Slush on ground, slush in the market

How ISPs can defend their customers

Managed services: The way of the future

Microsoft: Malware tool not replacement for anti-virus software

* Anti-virus tools should still be your front-line defense

Why NSM mergers often fall short

* Management industry mergers often don’t provide promised gains

Securing a network with VLANs

A dozen for the new year

Spam: The dreaded false positive

Making sense of the Family and Medical Leave Act

Companies with teleworkers need to tread carefully when determining who’s eligible for FMLA benefits.

Road warrior’s notebook

Web site workover

CDW launches business technology makeover contest

Sign up to win $75,000 in equipment and consulting from IBM, Linksys and Intel

What to expect from the Cisco-Airespace union

* Cisco, Airespace make latest WLAN bedfellows

Linux distributors warn of security vulnerabilities, issue fixes

* Red Hat, Novell, Mandrakesoft fix Linux vulnerabilities

ROADM spurs DWDM scalability

* Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers

Solaris Management Console password vulnerability

* Patches from Debian, Trustix, Conectiva, more * Beware new worm posing as tsunami aid appeal * Experts warn of trick to bypass IE download warnings, and other interesting reading

Wireless LANs a little too popular

* Wireless LANs a little too popular * ISPs need to stop abuse * Carriers will steer you toward managed services * Prediction review

Fibre Channel switch maker McData acquires CNT