* SMC ships controversial Vativ technology
* Cisco readying top-of-the-line storage switch * Military clamping down on security * Industry group agrees on high-speed Wi-Fi proposal * Jammin' with Logitech's Wireless Music System * Powerful influences * Cartoon, quote of the week, to
* Claflin to step down as 3Com CEO * What customers want in this new year * Bank tape lost with data on 90,000 customers * FBI warns of mining accident e-mail scam * Forum: What would you put in a Network World Pack?
* Ethernet Alliance Web site offers resources
* Cisco, EDS close to $15 billion network upgrade deal with GM * Juniper remakes upper management * Microsoft patches Exchange, Outlook, Windows * CES - VoIP gear highlighted at CES * Fidelis updates network-based data leak prevention * Industry expe
* Alliance pushes Ethernet to new fronts * Two new WMF bugs found * Video: Howard Anderson's crystal ball * Bonus video: Oracle in trouble? * McAfee president jumps ship to Websense * Mercury Interactive buys Systinet * EMC to acquire Microsoft
* Ethernet Alliance formed
* What the year ahead holds for customers * Microsoft WMF vulnerability exploits renew debate over unauthorized patching * File format shifts have users worried * Case study: CareGroup checks out Symantec database security tool * Today on Layer 8
* Nolle: What will generate the real heat in '06 * Tolly: 10G Ethernet, PoE on '06 shopping list * Op-ed: New products tackle information overload * Johnson: Assessing the year ahead in telecom * And more
