Network World articles from April 2006

Network World archives from April 2006

NAC competition: Start with a little TCG; Working on Trusted Network Connect since mid-2004, company seeks completed architecture.(network access control)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder and Network World Lab Alliance Microsoft isn't the only vendor with a paucity of products. The TCG, a nonprofit industry-based standards organization comprising interested vendors, has been working on its Trusted...

Gaming Google: Pet suppliers barking over online practices; Pet suppliers barking over online practices.
April 3, 2006... When Google recently removed BMW.de from its database for using unfair Web design techniques, a collective cheer rose from the ranks of other designers around the globe. Instead of indicating an impending crackdown on tricks aimed at...

College's push to virtualize its servers is paying off; VMware installation paying off in terms of money, management.(Maine college used VMware ESX Server)
April 3, 2006... Byline: John Cox investing in virtualization software, a small Maine college eliminated about one-third of its physical servers and sidestepped about $356,000 for new systems, even as it added enterprise applications. The server...

Microsoft to extend Active Directory.
April 3, 2006... Byline: John Fontana LAS VEGAS - Microsoft is racing to fill gaps and integrate technology into its identity management platform before customers shift to tools from other vendors. Active Directory is being driven beyond its...

Serial Attached SCSI switch holds promise for SMBs; Flexibility, ease of use seen putting off the need for Fibre Channel SANs.(Small computer system interface)(storage area networks)(small and medium sized business)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor A new switching technology, Serial Attached SCSI, is catching the attention of server vendors and industry experts for its ability to network more storage devices than SCSI and preserve user investments in...

BT addresses security, compliance; New services would help companies with federated ID management and tracking regulations.(BT Americas)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo BT Americas is working on two new services that the company says offer customers an enhanced level of security and tools that make regulatory compliance around the world a little easier. BT is developing a...

What is NAC anyway? It's simple: Who you are should govern what you're allowed to do on the network.(network access control)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder and Network World Lab Alliance Generic network access control at its core is a simple concept: Who you are should govern what you're allowed to do on the network. When all of the parts are in place, NAC will be...

Virtualization gaining ground in open source.(LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears, Phil Hochmuth Open source efforts to make it easier for companies to virtualize data center resources, whether they are Linux- or Windows-based, will be on full display this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and...

Learning to live with spam.(junk mails )
April 3, 2006... Byline: Chuck Yoke Growing up in a lower-income family in the 1960s meant that meals often consisted of items that helped to stretch the budget - stewed tomatoes, dandelion greens, potatoes, beans, gravies, breads and large quantities...

Phishing steals spotlight at MIT Spam Conference.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson While the volume of unwanted e-mail ebbs and flows, the nature of unwanted e-mail is steadily becoming more dangerous, say spam experts. Advances in anti-spam technology and increased use of these products...

Get a handle on next-gen networks.(which uses voice over internet protocol and Multiprotocol label switching)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Johna Till Johnson Like generals who always seem to fight the last war, federal officials are busy trying to regulate yesterday's networks. Listen to the buzz in Washington and you'll come away feeling the Internet was invented...

NetXen 10-Gig adapters to boost server speed; HP, IBM first to include new Ethernet NICs in their systems.(NetXen Intelligent network interface cards )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor NetXen last week launched multiprotocol network adapters designed to speed processing by as much as a factor of 10 and reduce power requirements for x86-based servers by as much as 50%. The vendor's 10Gbps...

Bandwidth management is here to stay.(network management)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Frank Dzubeck Bandwidth management is broadly defined as the control of traffic in a network. It can encompass numerous techniques, including WAN optimization; WAN, SSL, XML and application acceleration; bandwidth allocation;...

The competition for NAC; Mapping Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft and TCG's access-control schemes.(Network access control)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder Network access control represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. But it's also contentious, confusing and -- when done right -- complicated. ...

In brief: JBoss offers messaging, server; SAP says delay of Microsoft Office won't affect Mendocino release.(JBoss Messaging 1.0, JBoss Application Server 5.0)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... JBoss last week released a messaging system it hopes will extend the reach of its open source enterprise middleware platform into the high end of the market. It also announced a new open source Web server. The JBoss Messaging 1.0 component...

DataDots offer device security.(DataDot Personal DNA Kit)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Keith Shaw The scoop: DataDot Personal DNA Kit, about $20, from DataDot USA What it is: This theft-protection system consists of polyester substrate microdots (each about the size of a grain of sand) onto which unique...

Microsoft team delays, threat.(Windows Vista )
April 3, 2006... Byline: Scott Bradner Over three days recently, Microsoft delayed two major products and, perhaps to compensate, hinted that it just might join The SCO Group in trying to sue Linux out of existence. On March 21 Microsoft announced...

Check Point rounds out security plan.(NGX R61 from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Check Point says it has carried out its vision of uniting security management across the four areas of the corporate networks that must be protected: perimeter, Web, internal and endpoint. Now all devices made...

Converting MPEG-4 video into QuickTime.(tips)(Brief article)(Column)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Steve Blass I want to convert a large collection of MPEG-4 video files to hinted QuickTime movies. Is there software that can automatically convert the files? Examples and instructions for using Apple Script to manage the...

IP telephony vendors integrate their wares with Microsoft's platform; * VoiceCon sees IP telephony vendors announce integration with Microsoft.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick One major trend we noticed at last month's VoiceCon in Orlando is that the IP telephony market seems to agree that integration with Microsoft's platforms is pretty important. Today, we'll highlight...

OASIS in document desert?(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Kevin Tolly Worried about dealing with .doc, .xls and .ppt files? Probably not - but the people at OASIS think you should be. OASIS has been at work since 2002 building up an open alternative to proprietary office file formats...

Mu Security debuts with test analyzer; Intended to run in test labs, target devices include switches, routers, servers and firewalls.(Mu-4000)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ellen Messmer This week start-up Mu Security makes its debut with a security analyzer called the Mu-4000 that can probe and discover new vulnerabilities in a variety of IP-based network gear, including switches, routers, VoIP...

In brief: Data-protection bill advances; NEED.(House of Representatives committee passed a bill "Data Accountability and Trust Act")(Google Inc.'a shares)(computer hacking at the banks)
April 3, 2006... A House of Representatives committee has unanimously approved a bill that would reshape regulations for data brokers, including a requirement that U.S. companies that traffic in personal data notify victims of breaches. The House Energy and...

Determina protects desktops from variety of Web threats; Formerly just for servers, patching alternative extended to clients.(Vulnerability Protection System Suite from Determine Software Inc.)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Determina, which makes patch alternatives for servers, is extending its protection to workstations and their unique threats. The company now makes Vulnerability Protection System (VPS) Suite for Desktops, which the...

NAC competition: Cisco's network control; Network Admission Control can be mapped to TCG's NAC architecture, but issues arise.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder and Network World Lab Alliance Cisco's Network Admission Control can be directly mapped to TCG's NAC architecture. However, because Cisco is bound by the revenue reality of its installed base, the architecture...

DoD readies wireless mandate.(Department of Defense policy on the use of IEEE 802.11i security standards )
April 3, 2006... Byline: John Cox The U.S. Department of Defense is putting the final touches on a policy memo that will mandate use of the IEEE 802.11i security standard for unclassified wireless networks. The mandate could spark a proliferation...

Early adopters laud multicore systems; Systems keeping heat, power under control; some software issues remain.(FlightAware)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears FlightAware's business is soaring. In the year since its launch, the company that tracks private and commercial air traffic in the United States has been serving up about half a million requests a day, with...

Data protection to take center stage.(Storage Networking World)(CDP IPStor Enterprise Edition, CDP IPStor Remote Office Edition from FalconStor Software)(Symantec Corp. introduced PureDisk software)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor Vendors at this week's Storage Networking World conference plan to show off products that go beyond storing data to protecting it and enabling fast recovery. The San Diego event, one of the biggest dedicated to...

Microsoft outlines roadmap for Active Directory and identity; * Microsoft's four areas of focus for identity management.(Directory Experts Conference of NetPro Computing Inc.)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns Last week, at Netpro's Directory Experts Conference, Stuart Kwan, Microsoft director of Program Management for Identity and Access, delivered the keynote, a roadmap for Active Directory and identity within Microsoft...

NAC competition: Microsoft's Network Access Protection; No switch or router maker, industry giant focuses on DHCP rather than 802.1X.(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder and Network World Lab Alliance The most significant differences between Microsoft's Network Access Protection architecture and TCG's Trusted Network Connect result from the fact that Microsoft doesn't make switches...

How do you define IT process automation? * What are these new breeds of IT process automation products?(Column)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mary Anne Winniford Recently, EMA has been seeing several new products described as "IT process automation" solutions. These products cover quite a broad territory with both small and large vendors claiming that their...

Maine college virtualizes its servers; Bowdoin College invests in VMware virtualization software.(ESX Server)
April 3, 2006... Byline: John Cox investing in virtualization software, a small Maine liberal arts college eliminated about one-third of its physical servers and sidestepped about $356,000 for new systems, even as it added enterprise applications. The...

McAfee bundles security wares; Company says combined products to cost half as much.(McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator )
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ellen Messmer McAfee next month plans to start shipping all-in-one desktop security agent software that is expected to cost businesses half as much as buying the company's anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion-prevention...

Are we losing our tech advantage?(Economic Strategy Institute in Washington report on technological innovations)
April 3, 2006... Byline: John Dix A recent report from the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, D.C., titled America's Technology Future at Risk, argues that the writing is on the wall. The telecommunications industry has been responsible for...

Jacada boosts call center wares; Contact center software aimed at streamlining processes for in-house, outsourced and home-based agents.(WorkSpace 3.0)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz Jacada this week is expected to unveil updated versions of its two contact center software products, which are designed to streamline the way agents work. Jacada's Fusion software hooks into enterprise...

In brief: Symantec expected to announce upgrade to IM security product.(IM Manager 8.0)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Symantec this week is expected to announce IM Manager 8.0, the first upgrade of the instant-messaging security product it gained in acquiring IM Logic earlier this year. IM Manager, which runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2000 or 2003, is a...

How to keep tabs on powerhouse vendors; Managing your most important IT suppliers requires attention and dedication.(Gartner Inc.'s tips)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy Dealing with your network's one or two predominant vendors requires a relationship deeper than occasional face time with a sales rep. The relationship's architecture, service levels and business objective need...

NAC competition: Juniper's Infranet; Focuses on firewall, access control, with less emphasis on endpoint security.(Juniper Networks Inc.)(network access control)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder and Network World Lab Alliance Although it is possible to map the basic components in the Juniper Infranet to TCG's Trusted Network Connect architecture, the reality is that Juniper is trying to accomplish very...

Google unleashes Web page building system for Gmail members; * Getting religious about Google Page Creator.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs Today we have yet another step in Google's relentless march towards total Web domination. This foray is in the form of a Web page building system called Google Page Creator and in common with many other Google...

UC Berkeley upgrades voice.(University of California's boice mail systems)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz University of California, Berkeley, eked all it could from its legacy voice mail system - and then some. Even after Unisys dropped support in 2001 for the university's Digital Sound voice mail system, it located a...

802.11w fills wireless security holes; Task group looking to extend protection beyond data to management frames.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Wi Fi standards)
April 3, 2006... IEEE 802.11i, the standard behind Wi-Fi Protected Access and WPA 2, patched the holes in the original Wired Equivalent Privacy specification by introducing new cryptographic algorithms to protect data traveling across a wireless network....

So wrong about so many things; Readers write about columns on Wikipedia, AOL, InBoxer, Stamps.com.(Letter to the editor)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Paul McNamara Let's give the readers a chance to sound off this week. No recent column produced more complaints than a Feb. 20 piece expressing my deep reservations about Wikipedia. In fact, one reader - who needs to get back...

Video fun with avatars and Skype.(QuickCam Fusion Webcam)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs A couple of weeks ago we stumbled across a very odd video called "Breakup" on YouTube. The video stars a young lady named Melody who is just talking. If you know Melody, we're sure her video that discusses her...

Letters to the editor: "Microsoft, Cisco not in sync on security".
April 3, 2006... Out of sync Regarding "Microsoft, Cisco not in sync on security": This really shouldn't be a surprise to any of us "in the trenches" with either of these vendors. Microsoft has made some dramatic improvements, but the momentum from...

Exending WiFi range.(home networks)(Column)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ron Nutter I'm using a 2-Wire HomePortal 1000SW and I am having trouble with getting a good signal in my upstairs bedroom where we have a wireless connection for our XBOX and another wireless connection for another computer. I...

What's happening with HP storage? Part 1; * Low down of storage at HP.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Mike Karp Space - as one of the more technical books on my shelf reminds me - is really, really big. So is HP. When I meet with the management at HP and look at what the company is doing with its products, it's often like being...

Mailbag: Readers love GroupWise but their bosses prefer Microsoft; * Microsoft elbows out Novell GroupWise.(Column)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Michael Osterman My column last week asking why Novell GroupWise gets more praise from its users than its competition receives from their users, and yet some organizations decide to replace GroupWise, generated a fair amount of...

CLECs CTC Communications, Choice One and Conversent to combine their businesses; * Also, Nortel simplifies its professional services portfolio; and Verizon adds application awareness to VPN.(Northern Telecom Ltd., Verizon Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy ILECs and their vendors aren't the only ones consolidating. CLECs have the bug too. Last week, CTC Communications and Choice One Communications, which in February announced their agreement to merge, said they are...

The 2006 Enterprise All-Star Awards; * Nominations for Network World's 2006 Enterprise All-Star Awards being accepted now.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Amy Schurr If your company has recently completed a network project that you're proud of, one way to give your staff recognition for their achievements is to enter Network World's second-annual Enterprise All-Star Awards...

Novell loses another SuSE chief; * SuSE CTO leaves Novell.(Juergen Geck)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns Just two weeks ago, at the BrainShare event in Salt Lake City, Novell seemed to be riding high. After all, not only had the company convinced thousands of "open source" and "free software" fans to spend...

Verizon offers tuning tools for its VPN service; * Verizon adds prioritizing treatment to its Private IP VPN service.(Verizon Communications Inc.)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Verizon is offering tools for its VPN customers to add bandwidth and mark traffic for priority treatment as it crosses the service provider's network. Part of Verizon's Private IP VPN service, the new...

Making sure the apps your senior managers care about work well over the WAN; * Why benchmark your major new applications?(Brief article)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler One of the truths of our industry is that if the CIO has a recent technical background it is almost always in the area of applications, and virtually never in WANs. Another truth is that a company's...

ICT releases enterprise acceleration tool; * AcceleNet 3.0 Enterprise.(Intelligent Compression Technologies)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie The market for application acceleration and WAN optimization technologies continues to grow as another vendor enters the market with tools to help enterprise companies accelerate WAN traffic. Intelligent...

Azul doubles up processors to accelerate Java apps; * Azul demonstrates a 48-core processor on a single chip.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor Azul Systems last week demonstrated a 48-core processor on a single chip. The company plans to ship the Vega 2 processor next year. Azul has a current appliance based on the first-generation Vega platform. The...

Time to bring Cisco, Microsoft and standards together for access control; * Cisco, Microsoft take different approaches to access control.(Cisco Systems Inc.'s Network Admission Control, Microsoft Network Access Protection)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos In many previous articles, we have discussed "de-perimeterization," an ungainly term describing the erosion of traditional perimeters. Our research indicates that most companies are retrenching and...

Start-up makes 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters available; * IBM and HP choose start-up NetXen's NIC technology.(NetXen, Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Jeff Caruso Start-up NetXen last week started shipping 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapters and revealed that HP and IBM plan to use its technology in future products. As my colleague Deni Connor writes, the adapters are...

Take responsibility; * Show your clients and fellow employees that you give a hoot.
April 4, 2006... Byline: M. E. Kabay EDITOR'S NOTE: This month the name of this newsletter changes to "Security Strategies," reflecting its strategic approach. Please note that the "from" address changes accordingly; we apologize for any inconvenience...

Notes/Domino users get peek at future from IBM; IBM releases WebSphere Portal 6.0.
April 4, 2006... Byline: John Fontana IBM Monday gave a glimpse of the future to Notes/Domino users with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.0 and its support of next-generation Web technologies for building and assembling application components. ...

Is it time for a chief branch architect? * Organizations need someone creating and coordinating a technology strategy for the branch office.(Column)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Robin Gareiss If you talk to 100 companies, you'll hear 100 different organizational structures for their IT departments - some very similar and others quite different from one another. In my recent assessment of branch...

EMC, Intel partner for low-end SANs; Intel to resell EMC Fibre Channel storage arrays for SMBs.(EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, Massachusetts), storage area networks)(Brief article)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor EMC and Intel are expected to announce Tuesday at Storage Networking World a partnership where Intel will sell EMC's Clariion AX150 low-end storage array. Intel will make the AX150 part of its portfolio of...

Azaleos taps Microsoft SAN technology to better manage Exchange.
April 4, 2006... Byline: John Fontana E-mail management vendor Azaleos said Tuesday it is adopting new remote SAN booting capabilities from Microsoft in hopes of reducing the cost and complexity of maintaining distributed Microsoft Exchange deployments...

MIT researchers attack wireless shortcomings, phishing; MIT proposes opportunistic coding and Web Wallets.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Bob Brown CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- MIT Assistant Professor Dina Katabi says incremental increases in wireless network throughput just aren't going to cut it. Colleague Rob Miller says phishing attacks continue to get trickier and...

Security concerns could slow RFID; Promiscuous tags and readers are a major vulnerability.(Brief article)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Neal Weinberg RFID will someday revolutionize business, but that won't occur until serious security issues are resolved. That was the message delivered Monday at InfoSec World by Kevin Ashton, founder and director of MIT's...

Knock yourself out with more free storage; * Streamload offers a free dollop of disk space.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs It is crazy! When you add up all of the storage that various Web applications providers are willing to give you, there are tens of gigabytes available to anyone simply for signing up on half-a-dozen sites. ...

Broadwing service to detect and combat DDoS attacks; * Broadwing, Prolexic team for service that mitigates the effects of DDoS attacks.(Broadwing Communications Inc., distributed denial-of-service attacks)(Brief article)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Broadwing Communications announced that it is teaming up with Prolexic to offer customers a service that fights distributed denial-of-service attacks. The provider says its service, which will likely be...

The SOA generation gap: New breed of vendors marry SOA with Web services; * SOA vendors mix SOA and Web services for interoperability and to lower cost.(service oriented architecture )
April 5, 2006... Byline: Julie Craig In my last newsletter, I discussed the growing generation gap between Enterprise Service Bus platforms from established vendors such as Oracle and Tibco and the new breed of modular products being developed by a...

Microsoft's Active Directory expert returns to his roots; * Peter Houston back in the Active Directory thick of things.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns I spent last week at the Directory Experts Conference (put on by NetPro) where everyone who has anything to do with Active Directory should be. As usual, Microsoft Director of Program Management for Identity and...

Dealing with multi-generational 802.11; * Planning ahead for 802.11n.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Joanie Wexler Enterprises are just ramping up with 802.11b/g-based Wi-Fi deployments. Relatively speaking, they have hardly touched 802.11a, which offers additional channels for design flexibility and interference avoidance in...

NetPro updates ChangeAuditor network-auditing product; * NetPro releases ChangeAuditor 3.0.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns Last issue I mentioned Microsoft's roadmap for Active Directory and identity, which was presented at last week's Directory Experts Conference. I should also mention the announcements from the show's major sponsor,...

Vendors tackle IP telephony security and management; * IP telephony security and management product announcements at VoiceCon.(Spanlink Communications Inc. introduced AnswerCenter software)(Sipera Systems Inc. introduced IPCS 310 )
April 5, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Today, we'll highlight two product announcements made at the recent VoiceCon event that focus on solving the top two key roadblocks for a successful IP telephony deployment - security and management....

Mailbag: Who pays for your training? * The training haves and have-nots.(Survey)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Linda Leung In the last newsletter, we discussed continuous education and asked who funds your training. The discussion was sparked by a CompTIA survey that found that 88% of the 462 IT pros polled said they paid in full or in...

Do companies really know their own IT costs? * What are you spending for a specific function?
April 5, 2006... Byline: Dan Twing In recent years technology spending has received increased scrutiny with ROI and total cost of ownership calculations becoming significant metrics in the spending approval process. Companies have gotten much better...

Verizon Business to offer dynamic bandwidth; * Verizon Business introduces new service called Private IP Dynamic Bandwidth.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Verizon Business will offer network managers the ability to expand and contract the amount of bandwidth they use on an almost real-time basis to handle monthly or seasonal peaks in VPN traffic. The new...

Open source going strong at the Christian Science Monitor; * The benefits of working with open source can be seen at the Monitor.(Brief article)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth "One of the amazing benefit of working with open source is that you're interacting with a worldwide network of really, really smart people instead of dealing with your typical corporate software support...

Government agency outsourcing firms don't respect private data, GAO reports.(Government Accountability Office)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Michael Cooney Critics of the U.S. government's outsourcing practices have one more bullet to fire at proponents of the practice. According to a Government Accountability Office study, government agencies that use information...

CTIA: Sprint focuses on wireless broadband; Sprint Nextel fleshes out wireless options at CTIA show.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Sprint Nextel is demonstrating new gear and applications that use its national EV-DO network this week at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas. Last week Sprint announced its plans to expand its EV-DO network...

CTIA - Cingular teams with HP on wireless data service; Cingular Wireless service to be integrated in HP computers.(Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Cingular Wireless announced at CTIA 2006 that it is working with HP to integrate wireless data service into HP laptop computers. HP plans to make Cingular's UMTS/HSDPA wireless data service available on...

Berners-Lee's next trick: Creating a more useful Web; Web creator provides Semantic Web update.(Tim Berners-Lee)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Bob Brown Web creator Tim Berners-Lee says that the next phase of the Web, dubbed the Semantic Web, could start making its presence felt at companies in the next couple of years. He provided 400-plus attendees at the MIT...

The NSA's ultra-secure Linux technology evolves for the enterprise; LinuxWorld panel discusses the evolution and challenges of Security Enhanced Linux.(National Security Agency)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Boston - Linux and open-source developers are working to make Linux security tools developed by the National Security Agency more accessible and usable by regular system administrators and application developers....

CipherTrust sets up PhishRegistry.org to help combat phishing; * Another weapon to phight phishing.(Brief article)
April 6, 2006... Byline: Michael Osterman At last week's MIT Spam Conference, CipherTrust announced PhishRegistry.org, a tool designed to combat phishing attempts. This free service allows legitimate organizations to register their Web sites, after...

Application benchmarking helps you to determine how apps will perform; * The value of benchmarking your applications.
April 6, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Last time, we pointed out that since a company's CIO as well the company's business and functional managers care more about applications than they do about the WAN, WAN managers need to be able to...

April 10, 2006 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.(web browsers and their market share)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kevin Ashton forecasting about rfid equipment)(Computer Sciences Corp. laying off 5000 people after acquisition)(Brief article)
April 6, 2006... Past weeks GOOD: Firefox breaks barrier Advocates of competition are smiling over the latest browser market share numbers from audience measurement firm Net Applications: Firefox, the free open-source Web browser from Mozilla.org,...

April 10, 2006 Cartoon of the Week.
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What's happening with HP storage? Part 2; * What are HP's goals with storage?(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
April 6, 2006... Byline: Mike Karp This is a continuation of my previous newsletter, which began a look into HP's storage strategy for the coming year. Mark Hurd, HP's new CEO, wants to grow the storage business. From what I heard last week, while some...