Opinion

Metro Ethernet on the rise

* The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance is making metro Ethernet a priority

Public hot spots lead to private network benefits

* Starbucks to piggyback corporate apps on public hot spots

Elements of security policy style, Part 1

* First in a series on writing and publishing security policies

NetFlash: You, the corporate bad guy

Metro Ethernet future looks very bright

* Infonetics Research predicts sunny days ahead for metro Ethernet

Microsoft patches DirectX flaw

* Patches from Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, others * Beware Windows virus spreading via e-mail pretending to be an e-card or tech support update * Meetinghouse updates WLAN security for Windows, and other interesting reading

File trading the U.S. Supreme Court recordings

* File sharing technologies provide some golden opportunities

Online job hunting hurdles

* Online recruiting specialist CareerXroads uses a fictitious candidate to review online staffing pages

Your top concerns

* What’s on your colleagues’ minds these days and how much are they making? Our annual surveys tell all

Business software upgrade lessons

* Everest accounting software keeps Animalmania from getting shortchanged on guppies

Teleworking vulnerabilities

* Wireless LANs, physical security important for home workers

Blue Coat gets blue ribbon in security

* Blue Coat Systems gets high marks in secure content management

More on Microsoft

QoS? It’s all about the bandwidth

Sweating in their boots

Video taking a back seat?

Piecemeal or all-at-once

What are you looking at?

Quote of note

Big two lead the way

Andrew Davis on the conferencing market

Wainhouse Research Summit

Features key to IP Centrex adoption

* Unified messaging and other features necessary for IP Centrex to take off

More from Catalyst

* Catalyst 2003 news from Microsoft, Sun, Novell, Neoteris

Sybase opens Linux workout room on Wall Street

* Sybase hopes financial firms will put Linux to the test

Still not too late for migration

* Migrating from NT 4 to Windows Server 2003

2004: What do you need to know?

* Your chance to help shape the Network World Technology Tours

Sprint and MPLS: pals after all?

* Sprint to offer MPLS-based VPN service

The Search engine ranking game

* Checking where your site ranks on popular search engines (without raising suspicion)

Are companies taking the strategy out of IT?

* Economy forces companies to make tactical decisions, rather than strategic