Opinion

Open Source Not For Financial Institutions? Bah Humbug

Ssh, don't tell anyone but open source is used at the biggest banks and finance houses in the world, but can you steal open source code?

Most popular stories this week: Dec. 10

The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Dec. 10.

Chrome OS: 10 things you can (and can’t) do with the Google PC

Hands-on with Google's Cr-48 prototype netbook

Why Whack-a-Mole won’t work against the likes of Wikileaks

Imitators are not only inevitable, one is all set to launch

ID management predictions from the Great White North

Hitachi-ID CTO goes out on a limb with security predictions

Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011?

Sailpoint execs explain how big isn't necessarily better in IdM companies

Do not track browser tool is just permission-less marketing

Siemens Enterprise Communications to acquire FastViewer

FastViewer currently serves more than 4,000 customers

Automated patch management for small organizations

Cloud coming but security makes it gray: Cisco study

Survey tracks trends, strategies, concerns in data center and cloud computing

Google “fixes” another Microsoft product

Google brings Internet Explorer strategy to Microsoft Exchange

CouchDB: The Most Widely Distributed, NoSQL Open Source DB

Packaged with Ubuntu CouchDB is on millions of machines

Attacks on Visa, PayPal by just ‘a bunch of criminals’

WikiLeaks defenders not hacktivists, security expert says

Apache Resigns from Java Community Process Executive Committee

Will Apache's resignation have any effect on Oracle's control of Java?

The story behind the IETF’s sFlow standard for switched network monitoring

HP Labs alum explains how sFlow came to be

Latest on the Wikileaks ‘information war’

Tightening up those telco Ts and Cs

Cisco re-signs with the NHL

TelePresence scores big with the commish

Could Wikileaks spawn troubles for the IT Industry?

Copycats could begin publishing internal information to take down IT companies

Greenpeace declares Cisco to be greenest IT company

Cisco tops the Cool IT Greenpeace Leaderboard; Oracle comes in dead last

Holiday Gift Guide 2010 – A Few Last-Minute Contenders

We received a number of products for review after the print deadline - but never fear, we get to everything eventually, and here are a few more products that belong on your gift list.

Death by Open Source

Solaris vs Linux - Was there ever a battle?

Can will.i.am make cloud computing cool?

Entertainer makes cameo at Salesforce.com event

Overcoming Challenges with SPAN and TAP limitations

How I overcame a challenge with limited SPAN sessions on a Cisco Switch.

Latest sign Google is smarter than the rest: 4 Googlers named ACM Fellows

Carnegie Mellon, IBM, AT&T and Microsoft among others whose computing experts are recognized

Click jacking for Pain and Profit

Being click jacked on your mobile phone can be an expensive, painful business. Here's how it happens and how you can protect yourself.

Self-Assessing CCNA Readiness (RIP-2, Part 2)

Examining RIP-2 Terms and Applying Those Terms

Will Usage-Based Bandwidth Impact Teleworker Plans?

UC

CUCM 8.0 IP Phone Autoregistration

This week’s video demonstrates the configuration of autoregistration on a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 8.0 server.

Network Automation extends BPA to the cloud and virtual servers