Opinion

When it makes sense to use managed service providers in a down economy

* Evaluate the MSP's ability to properly manage your service before you buy

Confounded nonsense

* Potential pitfalls in security studies

Quantum upgrades disk-based backup/replication box

* Enhanced DXi7500 offers 22% more usable capacity

CDNetworks ups its U.S. game

* Around for nine years in Asia, CDNetworks is making inroads in the U.S.

The approval process goes Web

Zapproved makes it clear who helps, who roadblocks.

IETF standards for NAC in the final stages

* The two NAC protocols up for approval: posture assessment protocol and posture broker protocol

Femtocells could become a part of your network

* Femtocells are becoming more of a reality

Fixing the privacy joke

UAC flaws pshaw: disable admin rights to make Windows and IE safe

Cisco Tweeps on Twitter, the official list

Cisco earnings: you want the good news or the bad news?

More security problems in the Treasury Department. More??

Cisco releases four security patches for its WLAN controller

Word of the day from MIT: Kerberizing

Unix tip: Monitoring network switches

Memory, I/O virtualization make it big

9 Cool Geek Tips I Just Can’t Function Without

Google-funded school aims to save the world

How Akamai Shrinks the World for SAP Users

Finding the tech industry’s ‘good news’ … on Twitter

Voice search comes to the G1

Kindle could be a $1.2B business for Amazon: analyst

OCS 2007 R2 – Time To eBay The PBX

Cellular guys hurl femtocell salvo

* Verizon Wireless, AT&T to join femtocell service ranks

Do more with less…staff

* Identity management to improve efficiency, automate servies, reduce costs

Management vendors think ‘Cisco’ with upgrades, integration

* PacketTrap makes every router Cisco-like; NetQoS integrates SuperAgent with Cisco tools

Microsoft turns Web Sandbox loose

* Web Sandbox looks to solve the browser security problem

Digium adds support for instant messaging; VoIP Logic integrates it iPhone

* Unified communications news from IT Expo

The many flavors of carrier Ethernet

SQL Server 2008 on a micro laptop? Get a Passport!