Opinion

Key to VoIP success? Training

* VoIP smarts

E-mail filtering options

* Ways of dealing with spam

Praise for Novell Forge

* Novell's open source effort gets the thumbs-up

Cogent spruces up its balance sheet

* Cogent reduces debt to $27 million from $380 million

Virtualizing Windows Server 2003

* Digging into Windows Server 2003 virtual server

Survey reveals VoIP satisfaction levels, benefits and challenges

* Sneak preview of 2003 VoIP survey results

Symantec updates focus on intrusion protection

Oracle exec hints at more bids to come

DNS marks 20th birthday

CA, SteelCloud partner on security appliance

Ready for the rebound?

* Career coach Andrea Kay offers advice on how to make your job searches more effective

Oculan 250 network appliance

* The Reviewmeister checks out Oculan's new network monitoring appliance's claims of plug and play capabilities

Bargain hunting

* Verizon enters prickly negotiations with two unions

How sticky are we?

* Cable providers could face a tough time hanging onto their broadband customers

MPLS: The Ultimate user-to-network interface?

* MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance "QoS Support in MPLS Networks" white paper

Mobile data is coming, and backhaul needs upgrading

Managing remote employees

* The key to success in managing remote employees

ClearCube boosts desktop blade processing power

* ClearCube creates dual-processing desktop blade, supports more displays

FTC spam legislation could hit P2P

* Lawmakers want FTC to investigate porn on P2P nets

Hot buttons for managing IM

* Survey shows what’s important to managers of enterprise IM systems

HP puts on SqueezePlay

* HP uses Inner Media’s SqueezePlay for compression

Microsoft takes on spammers

* Microsoft sets the lawyers on spammers who prey on Hotmail

Security papers on my site

* Last in a short series on security resources on author Kabay’s Web site

Having a fun time with Novell press releases

* Novell announces top-level appointments and a beta release

Sen. Hatch and the record industry’s jihad

* Backspin columnist Mark Gibbs ponders Senator Hatch's mental state

Enterasys puts firewall and IPSec VPN in one router

* Enterasys releases multi-function security routers

NetFlash: WLAN managers see cavalry coming

Net Know-It-All

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WLAN hot spots start getting rapped

* Industry observers are starting to point to holes in wireless LAN hot spots

Classic mistake No. 1 for evaluating data: The SLA

* Storage implications of meeting high SLAs