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* Some misunderstand what ITIL is and is not
* Reports from Digital ID World and Mobile ID Services conference
* Service-oriented hype to meet hard realities * Switch vendors crunch Gigabit chips * HP to detail product integration, plans * Microsoft readying simpler ID management * Today on Layer 8
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* Electronics in the election * How good is your planning? * Dissecting the enterprise service bus * Data explosion
* Patches from OpenPKG, Gentoo, Conectiva others * New Bagle variants on the loose * E-mail at a crossroads, and other interesting reading
* Dawn of the digital dead * Wiki start-up JotSpot draws crowd for product beta * The New Data Center: Automation * Case study: IM helps connect healthcare company * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
* The Reviewmeister looks at a network modeling tool from Analytical Engines, NetRule
* IBM adds to high end of Unix server line
* Netopia adds parental controls and other features for $99
* Peribit introduces appliance for WAN optimization
* Net Insider columnist Scott Bradner finds the lack of understandable localization of authority on the Internet troubling
* Security impact of router misconfigs
* Findings from the Systems Administrators Guild's salary survey
