Opinion

Vendors: Stop threatening us

This week on Network World Fusion, 11/29/04

Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail news

Cisco CTO Q&A: We won’t be commoditized

Carriers jump into auditing

Profiling cybercrime: Network threats and defense strategies

No patching panacea

Microsoft and Sun plan Webcast to detail cooperation

The answer to a provisioning MIB could be forthcoming from OASIS

* Moves afoot to bring out a Provisioning Schema spec

Active Directory-related announcements impress and intrigue

* News from Javelina, Vintela and Microsoft

Microsoft’s Ballmer talks the talk

Living the digital life, today

Lassie, come home

A look at federated identity

* The goal of federated identity

Networking for a small business

Clearing our desk

Six Years of Data Gone

Router, switch markets enjoying a robust year

Polycom, Edgewater team on firewall/NAT appliance

Logitech VideoCall for Broadband

SightSpeed 3.0 rocks

Update available for RealPlayer

Citrix as a remote-access option

* The ins and outs of Citrix

Dell rolls out blades again

* Dell’s PowerEdge 1855 blade servers

Why Novell’s assertion that Microsoft killed WordPerfect has no legs

* The story behind WordPerfect's downfall

Spammer goes to the slammer

* First spammer in the U.S. convicted of a felony

Expand Networks algorithm ratchets up WAN speeds

* Expand Networks adds speedy compression algorithm to Accelerator products

Qualys’ QualysGuard

* The Reviewmeister finds QualysGuard to be a topnotch vulnerability assessment service

A stroke of LURHQ

* Lots of resources at Web site of LURHQ Managed Security Services

Struggling Avici ousts CEO

* Also: SBC enters residential VoIP market; Cisco unveils enhanced optical products

Calculating savings from storage virtualization

* Just how much can you save with SAN, NAS and mgmt. software?