Opinion

The cost of downtime

* The impact of downtime on business processes

Users optimize capacity with grids, Part 2

* Charles Schwab and Butterfly.net use grids

Toshiba tops the all-in-one heap

* Many compliments and few complaints for the Magnia SG30 Wireless Mobility Server

Industry groups urge care when holiday shopping

* Business Software Alliance and Better Business Bureau release 10 safe shopping tips

Organizing the resistance against spam

* Several groups that fight spam

Using traffic shaping to improve response time

* Where compression leaves off and shaping begins

Apocalypse No

* Nov. 24 turns out to be just another day…

IETF readies streamlined VPN protocol

* IKEv2 should make IPSec VPNs more secure and easier to configure

NetFlash: Cisco warns of wireless security hole

Linux kernel vulnerability

* Patches from Red Hat, OpenPKG, others * Beware latest variations of the Minmail worm * Sobig virus tops charts for 2003, and other interesting reading

HP stacks power

* HP ships stackable switches with power-over-Ethernet capability

My final words on the FCC

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Industry group to promote internationalized domain names

* Industry consortium pushes for use of global domain names

Identity management convergence

* Another way to describe the identity management 'ball of wax'

Start-up harnesses grid computing, Linux for storage

* ExaGrid touts Linux-based Grid Protected Storage

St. Bernard adds Volume Shadow Copy Service support

* What's new in St. Bernard Open File Manager 9.1

EDS setting the stage for business turnaround

* New management team breathes life back into EDS

How do you protect an IP PBX?

* Looking for protection for the new breed of PBXs

Getting better value from your WAN

* Looking ahead to the WANs Technology Tour

Fail over with AutoFailover

* Tzolkin's alternative to load balancing and failover

Taking compression wireless

* Getting more out of your satellite link

Server management technology moves forward

* The Intelligent Platform Management Interface is gaining momentum

Readers’ choice: Wrap-up

* The last word on readers’ picks for management tools

Looking forward to 2004

* Breaking news from SunNetwork Berlin * News wrap-up from Comdex, CD Expo * Links to upcoming trade shows * Links to free Network World Technology Tours

Enterprising initiatives

Long-distance opens up large business market to Bells

NetFlash: Vendor trio develops self-adjusting WLAN

Product Central

VoIP providers: Lay off the regulation

IBM plays Piper with EMC campaign