Network World articles from July 2007

Network World archives from July 2007

Getting an Adtran videoconferencing system to work again.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter My company owns several videoconference units that connect to a ISDN PRI T1. Several users reported problems with making and receiving video calls. The person who put this in has since left the company and, you...

SAN vendor Compellent Technologies going public; IPOs all the rage among storage companies.(storage area networks, intial public offerings)(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Compellent Technologies on Tuesday announced plans to go public, following in the fresh footsteps of a host of other storage network companies. The Eden Prairie, Minn., company, which makes a storage-area network (SAN) array, made its...

Legacy systems can be a liability; * The risk inherent in legacy systems.
July 3, 2007... Byline: John Burke We ask IT executives about platforms they support in their production systems, and get results you might expect: lots of Windows, less Linux and Unix, a sprinkling of "legacy" systems and mainframes. The exact...

Pick and choose; * A rich communications suite can be helpful?if you know which way to turn.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Robin Gareiss Most knowledge workers have desktop phones, mobile phones, softphones (either as part of the corporate communications system or an IP-based service such as Skype), along with a host of other data/multimedia...

Businesses still not compelled to use IM, presence; * Study into business use of IM, presence and real-time communications.(instant messaging)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman We have just concluded a major study of instant messaging (IM), presence and real-time communications. Here's a bit of what we found: * Among organizations that have not yet deployed enterprise IM as a...

Security gateway goes open source for all; Untangle looks to make money supporting its combo antivirus, antiphishing, antispyware offering.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Untangle has made its open source security software available free for download to network managers supporting environments of all sizes. Late last year Untangle, previously named Metavize, offered open source...

ShoreTel forges ahead with VoIP IPO; Company sets stock price despite Mitel patent suit.(voice over internet protocol, initial public offerings)(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene ShoreTel has announced pricing for its initial public offering of stock, moving ahead with its plans to go public despite a patent dispute with VoIP competitor Mitel. ShoreTel announced on Tuesday it will offer...

Doyle returns to Cisco Subnet; * Renowned routing book author Jeff Doyle is back.(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso We are honored to have Jeff Doyle return as a blogger for Network World's Cisco Subnet, our independent community of Cisco customers. Doyle had been in our rotation of Cisco Press bloggers; the author of...

Gear makers bundle network optimization features; * Vendors bundling more optimization options, service providers prepping more managed offerings.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz The desire to improve application performance over the WAN is driving the industry to add optimization features to all sorts of IT gear and services, from switches and specialized hardware devices to operating...

10 questions to test your virtualization readiness; Before diving into server, operating systems, application and desktop virtualization, industry analyst group suggests asking critical questions.(Column)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Virtualization appeals to IT executives looking to maximize data-center operations, but they must ask themselves 10 difficult questions before rolling virtualization out to successfully adopt the technology,...

Fidelity National: Ex-worker stole 2.3 million customer records; Former database administrator responsible for data breach.(Fidelity National Information Services)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer Fidelity National Information Services, a financial-processing company, said today a senior-level database administrator at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank...

Intel, AMD chips power most of the world's fastest supercomputers; * HPC expands with Intel inside.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Mears The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released June 23 and the list reflects how high performance computing is changing. Once reserved for the most complex of computing problems, HPC is now...

NAC useful for regulatory compliance when mixed with a strong security strategy; * NAC not a complete answer for complying with any regulation.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene A reader responding to the last newsletter about how NAC might help meet certain regulatory requirements asked how that might work. The reader wrote: "I do not see how a machine that is running a firewall, is...

When apps are slow, net managers are wrong until proven right; * Why won't the rest of IT believe it's not always the network that's at fault?(Column)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler In a series of recent newsletters (see the list at the end of this newsletter), we've discussed the fact that the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) application performance issues can be quite lengthy and we...

Cooperative optimization.(Multiprotocol Label Switching )(Column)
July 3, 2007... In modern MPLS networks with any-to-any connectivity, competition for network resources is fierce, not only among applications and users within each site but also among sites themselves. As a result, the challenge of providing critical...

Quantum expands on dedupe; * Quantum releases high-end disk backup system.(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Quantum last week played the de-dupe card again with the introduction of a high-end disk backup systems that can scale to as many as 240TB. The DXi7500 offers data-deduplication and multi-site remote...

Network World Chats.
July 3, 2007... Join me live on August 1 where I will answer your questions on TCP/IP routing, networking gear and anything else you want to chat about. Here are some sample topics that we can discuss. * IP routing * Internet scaling *...

Consumer devices pose threat to enterprise security; * Gartner's take on consumer devices and corporate security.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Amy Schurr As more consumer technologies make their way to the enterprise, Gartner advises IT leaders to prepare to manage the additional security risks. Your security managers should consider deploying network access control...

Love Hurts: A telecom melodrama.(Column)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Thomas Nolle Everyone loves a good story, an exciting tale of dramatic surprise, strategic reversals and the underdog rising up to claim the throne. It sells newspapers (which the publishers would certainly be thankful for...

New INFOSEC workbook now online; * Security resource now available.(Column)
July 3, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay Regular readers of this column know that I give a graduate seminar to my MSIA students every year in June called "INFOSEC Year in Review" or "IYIR" for short. This year the 135 graduating students and about 50 more...

Is securing your network worth the money? Security researchers detail P2P threats, vulnerability disclosures and hacker profiling at recent Carnegie Mellon confab.(peer to peer networking)
July 3, 2007... Byline: Bob Brown We often hear corporate IT pros complain that justifying security expenses is tough because they don't necessarily generate revenue or enable new business opportunities. In fact, figuring out the economics of IT...

Zoho taps productivity apps in mashup with Facebook.
July 3, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Online application vendor Zoho Tuesday ported its productivity tools to Facebook to create a mashup between its office applications and the social networking site. While the service has a decidedly consumer...

Organized, financially driven online criminals a main corporate threat, IBM security exec says; Director of IBM Internet Security Systems Kris Lamb says online criminals are focusing on highly repeatable, highly undetectable types of attacks using bots and malware.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie At IBM Internet Security System's, the company's primary security research organization is called X-Force. Kris Lamb, director of X-Force, says his group is charged with knowing where potential threats will arise...

Why is it so hard to compare training providers? * Finding out how training companies stack up against each other.
July 4, 2007... Byline: Linda Leung Is there an independent company that provides ratings of training providers - a sort of Consumer Reports of the IT training industry? That was a question that I recently received from a reader who is an IT manager...

Are your users willing to carry around Wi-Fi APs? * Aruba takes fresh approach to reinforcing remote Wi-Fi security.(access points)
July 4, 2007... Byline: Joanie Wexler How amenable would your mobile workers be to carrying around a Wi-Fi access point? Enterprise-class wireless LAN maker Aruba Networks is selling software that you can load onto any of its APs to simplify security...

Vendors announce identity management partnerships, wares at Catalyst; * More thoughts from Catalyst conference.
July 4, 2007... Byline: Dave Kearns Last year I lamented that there were few announcements of products, technology or anything else coming out of the Catalyst conference. Well, the vendors seem to have taken those words to heart because this year...

Cisco WAN gear preserves Nanometrics' VoIP quality; * QoS levels are maintained to prevent voice degradation.(wide area networks, voice over internet protocol)
July 4, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene When Nanometrics bought Accent Optical Technologies, it faced a tricky problem: balancing WAN optimization on the one hand and VoIP quality on the other. Accent Optical was involved already in an extensive and...

AT&T builds unique call center for IRS using Cisco gear; * IRS' deployment of Cisco Customer Voice Portal is one of the largest.(Internal Revenue Service)
July 4, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan AT&T has completed a $12.4 million upgrade to the Internal Revenue Service's call centers that is one of the first and largest deployments ever of Cisco's Customer Voice Portal infrastructure, according to...

Seaport Hotel extends unified communications to guests; * Seaport offers click-to-call VoIP, plus other services to hotel guests.
July 4, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Guests of the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center in Boston now enjoy a new, in-room service: the Seaportal. The Seaportal is a complimentary touch-screen Web portal that provides...

Quest's buy of ScriptLogic good news for Windows users; * Quest's latest acquisition should please network managers.(Qwest Communications International Inc.)(Brief article)
July 4, 2007... Byline: Dave Kearns A couple of companies that often grace this newsletter with their presence made an announcement a week or so ago, when . Quest Software purchased ScriptLogic Quest has featured prominently with us over the past...

PDFConverter converts 114 formats to PDFs; * PDFConverter from Baltsoft.(portable document format)(Column)
July 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs We're doing a "refi" on our house and the other day I received some documents from our broker. I had asked her to e-mail the documents to me because we wanted to wrap everything up quickly. To my surprise the...

Integration, best practices key to automating management tasks; * The new breed of run-book, IT process and data center automation products.
July 4, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie The word automation gets tossed around a lot when talking about network and systems management products. For instance, most software includes auto-discovery features and a majority of monitoring products send...

Added attractions; * Finally, vendors add in options we want.(computer vendors are offering systems management services to customers)
July 5, 2007... Byline: James E. Gaskin Too many PC vendors load new systems full of CrapWare, a trend no one likes. A nice change comes from HP, Absolute and Parallels which add stuff users like. Let's start with HP, since it has been tagged with...

Talk to upper management about security; * How do you convince upper management to invest in security?(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay Steven Zeligman is a graduate student of the Norwich University MSIA program who strode proudly across the stage in June to accept his diploma. He sent me his final essay of the Detection, Response and Hot Topics...

How to transfer Mac OS X external USB drive to Windows machine.(universal serial bus)(Brief article)(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Steve Blass I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200GB of data that I need to transfer to a Windows machine. Windows can't read the Mac-formatted drive. We thought about reformatting the drive using the...

WAN acceleration investment pays off for semiconductor maker; * TriQuint Semiconductor boasts five-fold improvement in data backups since deploying Silver Peak WAN acceleration gear.(wide area networks)(Interview)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz As a reporter at Network World and now as author of this newsletter, I've had many opportunities to talk with analysts and vendors about what drives technology adoption. I've also been lucky enough to hear from IT...

Identity thieves really missing their chance; Data breaches are booming, but little related identity theft seen, government reports.(Brief article)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Network World Staff Most of the hundreds of documented data breaches that have happened in recent years have not resulted in identify theft, according to a new government report. The U.S. Government Accountability Office...

Six burning VoIP questions.(voice over internet protocol)(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Phil Hochmuth VoIP is hot. The Gartner Group predicts that by 2008, VoIP-enabled systems will account for some 97% of all systems sold. But all that heat can raise some issues. We resolve to answer some of the more pressing...

Half of businesses not meeting federal e-mail discovery, retention rules; * What do you know about the e-discovery?(Brief article)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Not as much as you think you do. That's the opinion of 400 IT managers who were asked about how the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) impact their e-mail operations. Managed messaging service provider...

The mobile enterprise: When choice is too much.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Johna Till Johnson The current state of mobile communications reminds me of the immortal lyrics from the pop group Devo: Freedom of choice/Is what you got/Freedom from choice/Is what you want. For IT executives plotting...

RPost makes sure your e-mails are delivered; * RPost - like registered postal mail for e-mail.(email archiving service)(Brief article)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman Archiving is a critically important technology helping organizations to mitigate risk during legal actions, regulatory audits and other instances in which a record of business communications via e-mail or...

IPv6 migration needed; * Doyle lays out case for IPv6, starts discussion about migrating to it.(internet protocol, Jeff Doyle)(Brief article)(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso I mentioned last time that Cisco Subnet blogger and IP expert Jeff Doyle had run a series on the looming IP address crisis and the need for IPv6. After establishing the case for migrating, he's starting a series on...

Integration key issue in Massachusetts review of Open XML; The Commonwealth's review of the format, however, could spark other states to re-evaluate their failed legislation.(extensible markup language)
July 5, 2007... Byline: John Fontana The decision by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to consider adopting a second open document format could lead to integration issues but could also help revive similar legislation in other states. Last week,...

Is dual access to the SOHO/ROBO still necessary? * Why maintain dual access?(remote office/branch office, small office/home office)(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Over the past several years, we've often advocated using (at least) two forms of broadband access to the remote office/branch office(ROBO) and small office/home office (SOHO) environments. The reasons...

Data centers going green; * IT managers green their data centers.(Brief article)(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Mears My former colleague Deni Connor, who also was the previous author of this newsletter, and I wrote quite a bit about power and energy concerns in data centers during my time at Network World. Read one of our more...

Apple patches audio bug; * Patches from Apple, Debian, Gentoo* IPhone scams ramp up, target overeager buyers* Is securing your network worth the money?, and other interesting reading.(Apple Inc. issues patches for Mac OS 10.4.10)(patches for gentoo, debian linux operating systems)(Apple Inc.'s iPhone may be under threat from hackers)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jason Meserve Today's bug patches and security alerts: Apple patches audio bug Apple Monday issued a fix for the "snap, crackle, pop" audio problem that has bedeviled some Macintosh users since the June 20 operating...

Survey: Nearly half of Americans have home broadband access; Gaps based on income and race are narrowing, survey finds.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Nearly half of all Americans have broadband Internet connections in their homes, largely because of increasing use among minorities and the poor, according to an annual survey by the Pew Internet & American Life...

Mice, Xcelsius and dirty pictures.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Yes indeed, Gearhead is now completely virtualized. We're online, on time, on target and "en point." After last week's missive on mice, reader Jeff Hall in Amherst, N.H., wrote in to say: "Speaking of mice that you...

Diagnosing the health of the Internet; Akamai makes real-time data on speed, traffic and attacks available online.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Real-time maps showing the "health" of the Internet, including its speed, traffic numbers and the rate of attacks, are now freely available to the public from Akamai, which operates a distributed computing platform...

Reputation becomes part of Cisco's NAC; * Cisco plans to integrate reputation technology gained from its purchase of IronPort.(Cisco Systems Inc., IronPort Systems Inc.)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Cisco recently announced that it would integrate reputation technology, gained from its purchase of IronPort, into the Cisco Self Defending Network architecture. A Cisco spokesman said that reputation - whether a...

Amazon rids Disney-related site of undie ads.(Column)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Paul McNamara When last we left Al Lutz, proprietor of MiceAge.com -- your independent source for all matters Disney -- his visitors were being besieged by buff male advertising models wearing nothing but jockstraps... and he...

CIOs, CSOs struggle with conflicting roles; Relationship of CIO and CSO must balance security, risk and the need for innovation.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin This is the third in a series of stories on key security issues being discussed at The Security Standard event scheduled for Sept. 10-11 in Chicago. Any chief security officer can tell you there's a fine line...

FastSoft speeds up WAN with FastTCP technology; Start-up founded by CalTech researchers.(wide area networks)
July 5, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Start-up FastSoft is shipping an appliance for speeding up IP WAN links that requires customers to install just one box per connection rather than two, which is the more standard approach. With its newly...

Biggest lie in the enterprise: 'The network is down'; Stop blaming the network for outages -- applications and Microsoft operating systems are at fault over 99% of the time.
July 5, 2007... This article was contributed by a reader. If you have an opinion or technology experience you would like to share, contact Online Community Editor Julie Bort (jbort@nww.com). Enterprise network professionals take note: If you are...

Credit card thieves donate to charity; Small contributions test validity of cards while avoiding suspicion.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Symantec says it has noticed an increase in the use of stolen credit cards to make charitable contributions as a way to check out whether card numbers are legitimate before the thieves attempt to sell them or make...

Nortel plans wireless product line; Wireless LAN 802. 11n access points, controllers, and unified switches.(Northern Telecom Ltd.)
July 6, 2007... Byline: John Cox Nortel plans to deliver its own set of 802.11n wireless LAN products later in 2008, as part of a strategy to package a range of data and voice products to create wholly wireless office environments. The company...

Barracuda adds zero-hour threat protection to antispam appliance; New technology catches malware in real time.(Barracuda Real-Time Protection device)(Brief article)
July 6, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Barracuda Networks is adding real-time malware protection to its line of e-mail security appliances designed to block viruses, spyware, and other Internet threats as they emerge. Called Barracuda Real-Time...

Cisco co-founder launching optical network start-up; Len Bosack of Cisco fame promises "fundamental change" in telecommunications via stealthy new company XKL.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Cisco co-founder Len Bosack is launching a company that claims it will bring "fundamental change to worldwide telecommunications" with an optical transport system allowing IT departments to easily and quickly...

How big is the botnet problem?
July 6, 2007... Byline: Julie Bort Gigantic. Watchdog organization Shadowserver Foundation monitors the number of detected command-and-control servers -- which indicates how many individual botnets are out there -- and the number of clients these...

Six ways to fight back against botnets.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Julie Bort Botnets are a growing threat, but there are six steps that security professionals can take to fight back. Web-filtering services are one of the best ways to fight bots. These services scan for Web sites exhibiting...

Service protects kids' cell phones from predators.(eAgency Systems introduced Radar service)
July 6, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan A new service from eAgency Systems helps parents track their children's cell phone usage and provides real-time alerts if kids receive unwanted or suspicious e-mail, instant messages, text messages or phone...

Attack of the killer bots.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Julie Bort If malware were insects, botnets would be termites -- they burrow in behind the walls of your security perimeter, lie dormant for a period of time, then attack. Once a computer has been infested, it waits for...

Novell to SUSE users: Don't worry about Microsoft's stand on GPLv3; Company says SUSE, customer protection won't change despite Microsoft's position on GPLv3.
July 8, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Novell will continue to ship the complete version of its Linux enterprise server even though Microsoft is attempting to distance itself legally from the new General Public License (GPL) v3 open source license. ...

Network General tool peers inside virtual machines; NetVigil modules track VMware and Microsoft virtual servers.
July 9, 2007... The Holy Grail of "holistic" application platform monitoring has been picked up by Network General. To its NetVigil monitoring product, the company had added modules that let IT personnel peer into the workings of two popular...

Letters: The high cost of blades.(Column)
July 9, 2007... After reading your article on blade vs. rack mount performance and cost, I felt that I really needed to make a statement. I work for a nonprofit and the bottom line is that blade technology will never be adopted by the small to midsize...

Setting up a wireless network without an Internet connection.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter I'm helping out a friend who owns a small business. He has Microsoft 2003 Server and all of the networking has been set up. He has about 6 PCs connected to the server and several NetGear routers with a Linksys port...

How we did it.(designing virtual servers)(Brief article)(Column)
July 9, 2007... We deployed EMC VMware ESX Server across three platforms, an IBM x3550, IBM x3650 and IBM HS-21 XM blade (all with twin, four-core Intel CPUs, 16G to 32GB of dynamic RAM with 146GB of SAS disks) and used Windows 2003 Enterprise Server and...

CommVault launches search and discover software.(CommVault Systems Inc. introduced CommVault Simpana 6.0)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Storage management vendor CommVault introduced an upgrade of its data protection, archiving and replication software on Monday that features new search and indexing capabilities. CommVault Simpana 6.0, formerly...

Forget Big Brother -- Watch out for Big Entertainment.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Last week I discussed the doublethink and newspeak of "the Campaign to Protect America," an initiative launched by the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy as well as the shameful strong-arm bullying tactics...

Exchange, BlackBerry available in managed package from Azaleos.(OneServer with MobileXchange )
July 10, 2007... Byline: John Fontana E-mail management vendor Azaleos Tuesday said it is branching out into the BlackBerry market with an appliance and a set of remote-management services that will link the devices to Exchange. The OneServer with...

Microsoft enlists Turbolinux to develop translator for Open XML, ODF.(open document format)
July 10, 2007... Byline: John Fontana DENVER - Microsoft said Tuesday that Turbolinux has pledged support for translator tools to help integrate disparate document formats. At its annual WorldWide Partner Conference, Microsoft said Turbolinux, the...

IT buyers positive on Web 2.0, survey says; Forrester says wiki, blog, social-networking, RSS, content tagging and podcast technologies are hot.
July 10, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie A majority of IT buyers see Web 2.0 in a positive light, but CIOs would prefer to buy the emerging technologies in suites from larger incumbent vendors. That's the nut of the situation according to a recent...

Wikis can improve the utility of e-mail; * A better way to communicate is through the use of a wiki.
July 10, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman E-mail is a fantastically useful tool for many applications, but project management using e-mail as the primary communications vehicle could use improvement. Some of the deficiencies of e-mail for managing...

Emoticon turning 25: Thank this guy :-) ? or not :-(.(Carnegie Mellon University's Scott Fahlman interviewed)(Interview)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Paul McNamara When the emoticon -- known by some as the "smiley face" -- turns 25 years old on Sept. 19, the man recognized as having typed the first one intends to mark the occasion with a cookie. In the meantime, Carnegie...

Executive compensation edges up; * 2007 Mid-Year Information Technology Compensation Study.(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Amy Schurr IT executives are pulling in slightly higher salaries than last year, according to the results of a new study from Janco Associates. The average 3.3% percent increase in large enterprises and 3.22% in midsize...

PayPal Security Key: Two-factor authentication for $5; * PayPal brings a higher level of security to the masses.
July 10, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay My friend, colleague and former graduate student Carl Ness recently wrote to me excitedly, "It's about time this reached the consumer... I got mine yesterday, and I must say, it works really well. Now if my bank...

Cisco, Great Bay team to make NAC successful; * Cisco to sell Great Bay's Beacon Endpoint Profiler as part of the Cisco NAC line.(Cisco Systems Inc., Great Bay Software)(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Cisco is teaming up with Great Bay Software to provide a function that is key to the success of NAC, but that Cisco can't supply by itself. Cisco has an agreement to sell Great Bay's Beacon Endpoint Profiler as...

Outsourcing WAN optimization; * Global scale distinguishes Virtela's application acceleration services.(wide area networks, Virtela Communications Inc.)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz The market for managed WAN optimization and acceleration services is heating up as another entrant joins the field. In late June, network and security services provider Virtela Communications announced its new...

IBM unveils virtualized, encrypted tape storage.
July 10, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor IBM announced today a variety of new mainframe tape-library products that allow tape-based encryption and replication capability. The company unveiled: * The IBM Virtual Engine TS7740, a mainframe-based...

Ambitious Google not setting any limits on business deals, acquisitions; Google security services? Google cars? Video rentals? What's next?(Column)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Is there any business Google won't get into? The planned acquisition of e-mail security service provider Postini is just the latest example of Google expanding beyond its core business of selling advertising...

Technology for the People by the Money.
July 10, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs When it comes to government technology policy making what does it mean to be "American"? You might, like an innocent child, assume it means the government supporting open competition and letting the marketplace...

Majority of users unsatisfied with their e-mail experience; * Spam and productivity.(Brief article)(Column)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Arguably the most annoying factor for all of us is that constant stream of offers for products boasting that it will "enhance" our lives in one way or another. And even more amazing is the fact that...

Allied Telesis ships Gigabit Ethernet switches; * Two Gigabit Ethernet switches from Allied Telesis.(Gigabit Ethernet WebSmart Switch and AT-GS950/48)(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso Allied Telesis in recent weeks released two Gigabit Ethernet switches - a 48-port switch and a Layer 3 modular switch. The company this week shipped the 48-port Gigabit Ethernet WebSmart Switch for small offices and...

Are you ready for virtualization? * X86 server virtualization will take off this year - are you ready?(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. developing Barcelona Opteron processors)(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Mears Late last month, AMD said that, yes, it would indeed start shipping its long-awaited quad-core Barcelona Opteron processors in August. Times definitely are good for server buyers, with Intel saying that it, too,...