Network World articles from May 2006

Network World archives from May 2006

Can't find a domain name? ... Here's why.(GoDaddy's add/drop scheme)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Paul McNamara Chances are good that you've never heard of the add/drop scheme, so dubbed by GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons. But if you've recently struggled to find a decent .com domain name or paid a king's ransom to regain control...

Vendors air WAN capacity management wares; Accelerators from Citrix, Crescendo and WAN caching hardware from Expand are on tap.(Interop show)(wide area networks)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth, Denise Dubie A handful of vendors are expected to use this week's Interop show to launch gear designed to get more data through WAN pipes and Web server data center links faster. Citrix is expected to air its...

WAN optimizers stretch budgets; Bandwidth-acceleration devices provide an easily implemented money-saving measure.(wide area networks)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene One of the surest ways for companies with expensive data links to save money is to install WAN-acceleration devices. Users report the gear pays for itself in as little as a few months. The primary way these...

Wireless vendors target high-bandwidth gear.(Interop show)(wireless networking equipment )
May 1, 2006... Byline: John Cox, Phil Hochmuth Wireless offerings set to debut at Interop are targeting corporate customers looking to add high-bandwidth gear to core networks. Bluesocket is scheduled to introduce the first multiple-input...

End-to-end NAC remains difficult; Testing shows that completely interoperable, enterprise-class products could be coming soon.(Network access control)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder Network access control is a phrase on everyone's lips, but InteropLabs' testing shows that completely interoperable, enterprise-class NAC products are not here yet - though they could be just around the corner. ...

Mac OS X gets wrong kind of attention.(operating systems security)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Scott Bradner Recently there has been a growth industry in pundits whining about the security of the Apple Mac OS X operating system. To read some of the coverage, you would think someone deciding to use OS X instead of Windows...

Porn purveyors may be in the next cubicle.(child internet pornography)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Linda Musthaler News about Internet-enabled child pornography is rampant today. It seems you can't watch TV news without another startling arrest story, followed by an interview with an expert about how to keep your children...

Apple's 17-inch MacBook 5x faster than PowerBook G4.(EasyShare V610 from Eastman Kodak Co.)(MacBook Pro notebook from Apple Computer Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Keith Shaw I'm still buried in e-mail after some recent travel, so we're going to have to dig into the gadget news bag to highlight some recent device announcements: Macheads, get your drool on. Apple last week unveiled its...

Wiretapping the WAN: It's the law.(Electronic Frontier Foundation sued AT&T Inc.)(wide area network)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Johna Till Johnson You may have heard about the lawsuit that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is filing against AT&T for cooperating with the feds to wiretap its network. Apparently, AT&T has instrumented its network so that...

Avaya to announce service for hosted VoIP; Enterays, Foundry and Siemens also expanded IP telephony lines.(Avaya Inc. introducing Avaya On Demand service)(Siemens Corp.'s BizIP)(Foundry Networks Inc.'s Voice-over-WLAN controller )
May 1, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Avaya this week is expected to announce at Interop a hosted IP telephony service, with options for messaging and call center applications. The Avaya On Demand service, to be hosted by the company's channel...

A second look at 'Lucatel'.(Compagnie Financiere Alcatel merged with Lucent Technologies Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Kevin Tolly A few weeks back when the Alcatel-Lucent merger news broke, I thought for a moment I'd encountered a time warp. Five years ago, I wrote in my column that a proposed merger of the companies was a bad idea. I...

InteropLabs hits on NAC, VoIP and open source; HotStage event for '06 InteropLabs takes place in a drafty warehouse in California.(network access control)
May 1, 2006... In some settings the word "lab" conjures up sterile images of long, stainless-steel countertops, white rats and even whiter lab coats. The HotStage event for the 2006 InteropLabs takes place in a drafty warehouse in Belmont, Calif.,...

Interop: BorderWare to unify security appliances; Company integrates new platform into firewall, SIP and IM security appliances.(BorderWare Technologies Inc.)(instant-messaging)(Session Initiation Protocol)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson At Interop this week, security vendor BorderWare will detail plans for integrating its new Infinity platform into its existing firewall, Session Initiation Protocol and instant-messaging security appliances. ...

Connecting XP and OS X machines via FireWire.(IP network design)(Brief article)(Column)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Steve Blass Can I build an IP network that connects a Windows XP machine to a Mac OS X machine using a FireWire (IEEE 1394) connection? Yes, because the most recent versions of Mac OS X and Windows XP support TCP/IP networking...

NAC will make a splash at Interop; Dedicated network access control devices and software will dominate NAC deployments for the next few years.(network access control)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene IT executives looking to control access to their networks should have two more options to consider after announcements this week at Interop Las Vegas. InfoExpress and Vernier Networks are scheduled to introduce...

A PDF reader, more portable apps.(Portable document Format software)(Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader )
May 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs First up this week, a neat freebie: a lightweight PDF viewer for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 called Foxit Reader published by Foxit Software. Foxit Reader is much faster than Adobe Reader and much...

Interop: E-mail security vendors to make splash.(MailFrontier and Sonicwall Inc. introducing Messaging Reporter )
May 1, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson A pair of veteran security vendors will use Interop as a stage for announcing new and upgraded products designed to keep corporate messaging systems protected from a variety of threats. Following its February...

In brief: IBM building new storage-compression technology.(in its Viper DB2 database server)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Lionbridge Technologies Inc.'s Freeway 2.0)(NetCustomer offers migration services )
May 1, 2006... IBM is building new storage-compression technology into its forthcoming Viper DB2 database server that it says can cut storage needs by more than half. The technology, code-named Venom, lets database administrators compress database tables'...

Boeing deploys WLAN location tracking to speed up airplane production.(wireless local area networks)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth It's easy to lose track of something in the world's biggest building -- even a jumbo jet engine. Not that this happens often at aerospace giant Boeing, but the company recently deployed a wireless LAN (WLAN)...

Cisco hits on firewall/VPN, misses on ease of use; Exclusive test of ASA 7.1 software running on a high-availability pair of ASA 5540 systems.(virtual private networks)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder With its first iteration of the Adaptive Security Appliance a year ago this week, Cisco shipped its first new stand-alone enterprise firewall/VPN combination in nearly five years. Since then, Cisco has followed...

VoIP team ventures into new terrain; What happens when devices try to work through security devices and across wireless LANs?(local area networks)(voice over internet protocol)
May 1, 2006... Byline: David Newman now, basic interoperability is generally a given in multivendor VoIP settings. What happens, however, when VoIP devices go to work in decidedly unfriendly environments, such as through security devices and across...

In brief: Alltel announces service that lets wireless users make free calls to 10 numbers.
May 1, 2006... Alltel recently announced a service called My Circle, which lets wireless users make free calls to as many as 10 numbers. Most wireless providers offer customers free calls to other subscribers on their network. Alltel's offering lets...

In brief: NetGear announces stackable switches.(NetGear Inc. introduced GSM7328S, GSM7352S switches and ProSafe AX741 10-Gigabit adapter)(RSA Security Inc. acquired PassMark Security)(Alert Logic offers managed security services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... NetGear announced last week its ProSafe stackable switches. These include 24- and 48-port 10/100/1000Mbps Layer 3 switches, each with four slots of optional 10G Ethernet uplinks. The 24-port GSM7328S and 48-port GSM7352S switches, which...

Virtualization: the best get better.(VMware Inc.'s Distributed Availability Services)
May 1, 2006... Byline: John Dix With the Microsoft and Linux camps starting to get their acts together on server virtualization, we decided to check in with VMware, the company that popularized the concept, to see what gains it is making in the...

Bridging the ITIL-SOA gap.(IT Infrastructure Library)(service-oriented architecture)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Jeff Kaplan Two of today's most popular acronyms in the alphabet soup of the IT industry are ITIL and SOA. The IT Infrastructure Library has gained attention as a governance framework aimed at helping IT operations people...

Darwin and spam.(Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act)(CipherTrust study)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs According to a recent CipherTrust study, consumers respond to and spend money on 5% of spam messages that link to porn sites. That's in contrast to the 0.025% response rate generated by pharmaceutical spam and the...

How we tested Cisco appliance; ASA 5540 was tested running prerelease Version 7.1 software.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder We tested the ASA 5540 running prerelease Version 7.1 software in our network in Tucson, Ariz. We removed an existing NetScreen firewall and placed a high-availability pair of ASA devices as the primary firewall for...

Higher ed fears wiretapping law; Oral arguments to be heard this week in ACE vs. FCC petition over CALEA.(American Council on Education and Federal Communications Commission)(Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy Institutions of higher education are up in arms over an FCC ruling on wiretapping they say could cost them billions of dollars in upgrades, expose their networks to more attacks, and jeopardize rights to privacy and...

Secure SIP protects VoIP traffic; Security mechanism helps fill hole in Session Initiation Protocol.(voice over internet protocol)
May 1, 2006... Session Initiation Protocol has become the call control protocol of choice for VoIP networks because of its open and extensible nature. However, the integrity of call signaling between sites is of utmost importance, and SIP is vulnerable to...

News briefs: 'Net neutrality suffers setback.(EDS Corp. signed an outsourcing agreement with Kraft Foods)(Avocent Corp. acquires LANDesk Software Inc.)(AttachmateWRQ acquires NetIQ)
May 1, 2006... * A telecom reform bill approved by a U.S. House committee last week drew predictable reactions from proponents and opponents of 'Net neutrality - as the opponents won in this preliminary round of what promises to be a long legislative...

Testing Cisco's new SSL VPN technology; Adaptive Security Appliance 5540 includes most-advanced technology in Version 7.1.(secure socket layer virtual private network)(Cisco Systems Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Joel Snyder Cisco has put its most-advanced SSL VPN technology into its Adaptive Security Appliance 5540 with Version 7.1. In our test of a late beta of that software, we found that while it provides a solid and compact feature...

Mix-and-match open source for corporate networks; Approach raises key question: Is it appropriate for enterprise use?(InteropLabs' HotStage event)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Rodney Thayer Some say open source software is not worth using. Some say it infringes on patents. Some say it will save the world. Setting aside the religious hype, open source software raises a serious technical question: Is...

Cisco, Extreme, Enterasys and Foundry to launch security-oriented switches; Network infrastructure vendors weave security into the fabric of routers and switches.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Vendors at Interop this week will continue to blur the line between security and network infrastructure products, with Cisco, Extreme, Enterasys and Foundry expected to launch protection-oriented switches and...

Management key to controlling desktop-search risks; Management key to diffusing problems with desktop search tools.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie As more users employ desktop search tools from Google, MSN and Yahoo, IT managers increasingly must establish policies, standardize tools and protect their networks from data exposure, compliance breaches and poor...

Phishing leverages VoIP in new scam model; VoIP plays role in new phishing scam.(voice over internet protocol)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson Small businesses and consumers aren't the only ones enjoying the cost savings of switching to VoIP. According to messaging-security company Cloudmark, phishers have begun using the technology to steal personal...

How to stop more spam.(tips to filter junk mails)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Ron Nutter A couple of years ago, we set up a Linux box running Postfix, SpamAssassin and Amavisd to try and reduce the amount of spam we were getting on our mail server. We used the latest versions of each product. It has done...

Internet2's network to get a facelift; Internet2 phases out Abilene network with a backbone that supports 10 10Gbps Lambdas.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Internet2's network is growing up. That was one of the key topics discussed Tuesday at the group's Spring Member Meeting in Arlington, Va. The research group is phasing out its Abilene network after about...

Start-up aims to drive wikis into corporate collaboration; Start-up CustomerVision taps wiki popularity for enterprise applications.(CustomerVision's BizWiki)
May 1, 2006... Byline: John Fontana CustomerVision this week is set to unveil itself and BizWiki, a Web-based application for hosted, real-time collaboration that has access controls and workflow routing designed for corporate users. ...

Net mgmt. vendors show off app intelligence at Interop; Apparent Networks and NetScout evolve their network tools to better monitor application performance.(nGenius Performance Manager from NetScout Systems Inc.)(AppCritical from Apparent Networks Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie Management vendors are ready to step up at Interop (all the headlines from the show) to address customer demands for more proactive management of critical network services, and give network teams tools to better...

Intel, AMD add advanced features to processor packs; Intel, AMD build virtualization and management features into their x86 processors.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears Recognizing that clock speed is no longer a strong selling point, Intel and AMD are enhancing their x86 processors with embedded features such as virtualization and management tools meant to take the heavy...

XO 'launches' familiar name for fixed wireless; XO Holdings reintroduces Nextlink, provider of fixed broadband wireless services.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy XO Holdings last week "launched" a wireless company - one that bore it six years ago. The competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) reintroduced Nextlink to the industry as a provider of fixed broadband wireless ...

Hitachi pitches easier path to storage virtualization; Hitachi Data Systems releases industry's first controller-only offering for enterprise storage virtualization.(Hitachi Data Systems Corp.'s NSC55)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears Hitachi Data Systems aims to make it easier, and more cost effective, for enterprises to virtualize storage with a product that consolidates existing data stores without requiring customers to buy more disk...

Vendors look to ease compliance management; Management vendors announce wares to address compliance management.(Loglogic introducing compliance suite)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson, Denise Dubie Management vendors at Interop (all the headlines from the show) will be looking to help companies address compliance requirements with automated tools. LogLogic plans to announce a version of...

Microsoft customers buying half its managment picture; Current Microsoft managment products garner good reviews; questions dog long-range plan.
May 1, 2006... Byline: John Fontana SAN DIEGO -- Corporate users are generally pleased with the direction and pace of development of Microsoft's management software but are not yet ready to take on the vendor's broad self-healing, model-based...

Coffee chain brews up POS hardware; Caribou Coffee Company smells success with IBM's post-of-sale gear.(point of sale systems)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz To demonstrate the ruggedness of IBM's point-of-sale gear, sales executives held display screens under running water. Steven Bolduc, senior manager of POS and technical support at Caribou Coffee Company in...

Letters to the editor: "When a product is better than the company".
May 1, 2006... Happy customers Regarding Joel Snyder's column, "When a product is better than the company": I am stunned -- I have been a customer of CipherTrust for almost three years and my experience is the exact opposite. The company was the...

Current stats on messaging problems serve as a wake-up call to IT managers; * P2P nets continue to be found on corporate nets, plus other survey findings.(Survey)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Michael Osterman Reconnex and IronPort have both issued some interesting statistics on the state of messaging and network security. Here are some highlights of their findings: * Reconnex, in its fifth Insider Threat Index...

Not TEOTIAWKI; * 'Net neutrality debate is not about the end of the Internet as we know it.(Column)
May 2, 2006... Byline: M. E. Kabay Back in the late 1990s, a common acronym in discussions about the Y2K problem was "TEOTWAWKI": The End of the World As We Know It. In my most recent column, I surely enraged proponents of social action to defend...

Assigning traffic to MPLS service classes; * Placing voice on MPLS.(Multiprotocol Label Switching)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler In a recent newsletter, we referred to our analysis of the service-level agreements associated with some of the most commonly used MPLS services. We were surprised to find that in some instances,...

Crescendo Networks aims to reduce back-end processing bottlenecks; * Crescendo boosts its acceleration technologies.
May 2, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie Because about 40% of enterprise employees work outside of corporate headquarters, according to Yankee Group estimates, companies more now than ever need to optimize the delivery of data center applications over the...

XO goes back to move ahead; * CLEC reintroduces Nextlink provider of fixed broadband wireless services.(XO Communications Inc., NEXTLINK Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy It's back to the future for XO. XO Holdings "launched" a company that bore it six years ago. The CLEC reintroduced Nextlink as a provider of fixed broadband wireless services to businesses, government agencies and...

HP rolls out new PC blade switch, management software; * HP BladeSystem PC Blade Switch.
May 2, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor HP last week launched a switch that works with its BladeSystem PCs and software that manages the assignment of connections between users and the Microsoft Remote Desktop session running on a PC blade. The HP...

TrustELI aims to simplify VPN set up; * TrustELI adds Eli VPN to make setting up VPNs simpler.(virtual private networks)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene TrustELI, maker of a multifunction security box that includes site-to-site IPSec VPN support, is adding a tool that makes setting up VPNs simpler. Called Eli VPN, the feature lets customers configure VPN tunnels...

Hail to the PDA: The business continuity factor; * PDAs can provide nice backup for your small and home offices.(Personal digital assistants)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Robin Gareiss In a little-publicized event last week, a good portion of AT&T's DSL customers in the Great Lakes states lost DSL service for a full work day. I was one of them. Don't worry. This isn't going to be a rant...

Think thin when moving from one desktop platform to another; * 2X Software thin client products.(2X ThinClientServer for Windows/Linux)(2X ApplicationServer for Windows Terminal Services)(2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services )
May 2, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns I really do appreciate the feedback that I get from you, the reader of this newsletter. In fact, sometimes I think of it as simply an organized way for you to discuss things among yourselves. Two weeks ago, when I...

Recruitment costs on the rise; * Report shows as number of new hires increases so do recruiting budgets.
May 2, 2006... Byline: Amy Schurr If you're making new IT hires this year, chances are good that your company is spending more on its recruitment efforts. According to a report from compensation specialist Culpepper, firms expect to budget a median...

What was said and heard at EMC World 2006, Part 1; * Three days with EMC management.(EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, Massachusetts))
May 2, 2006... Byline: Mike Karp Last week I spent three days with EMC management, employees and (my guess) about 4,000 of EMC's dearest friends, its customers and resellers. I drank deeply of EMC's beer, sipped sparingly on the Kool-Aid, and...

PowerDsine puts more power in its PoE; * PowerDsine jumps ahead of PoE Plus effort in IEEE.(introduced PD83000 controller, power over ethernet)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Jeff Caruso Power-over-Ethernet specialist PowerDsine this week unveiled a "high-power" controller intended to broaden the range of devices that can be supported by the emerging technology. The PD83000 will use four pairs...

Data center architect should oversee production of a 21st century data center; * Staffing and organizing for the 21st century data center.
May 2, 2006... Byline: Johna Till Johnson Paradigm shifts almost always result in people and process shifts. As new technologies get rolled out, they require new approaches to architecting, designing and managing them - and that's in addition to the...

Interop: Network access control isn't cooked yet.(Secure Sockets Layer)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Scanning PCs before they are allowed network access is technology that will take another two years before it is mature, according to speakers at an Interop session Monday. Even SSL VPN vendors, who already supply...

Interop Reporter's Notebook: Data centers getting hot, literally.
May 2, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff Data centers getting hot, literally Data centers are getting hot. Stacks and stacks of single-rack-unit servers, multiple back-up power supplies and tightly packed blade server technology are among the...

Internet providing haven for teens who cut, burn selves; Self-injuring teens flocking to Internet message boards, Cornell study says.(Cornell University)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff Adolescents who injure themselves by cutting and burning their skin are flocking to Internet message boards for support and instruction, according to a new study from Cornell University. The researchers...

Penn State research zeroes in on database access, security; Penn State's PACT technology designed to protect metadata.(Pennsylvania State University's Privacy-preserving Access Control Toolkit technology)(Brief article)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff Penn State University researchers are touting new technology designed to enable databases to talk without giving away secrets to each other. The university's Privacy-preserving Access Control Toolkit...

Investors look to carrier, mobile, IP TV markets for start-ups; Cisco's market dominance in business networks makes it an uninteresting investment area for VCs and fund managers.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
May 2, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth IT executives should be familiar with what's keeping investors from putting money into enterprise- and small-and-midsize-business-focused start-ups: it's Cisco, investors say. Venture capitalists, hedge fund...

Linux vendors make noise in the NW200 list; * Linux representation in the NW200 top network vendors list.(Brief article)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Network World's recently-released NW200 - which lists the top 200 vendors in the network industry, by revenue - was again fairly light on Linux companies this year. This is probably what you get for selling a...

How IMS and UMA are complementary; * Many mobile service providers use UMA to supplement IMS.(IP Multimedia Subsystem, Unlicensed Mobile Access)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Today, we'll take up where we left off last time and explain why we believe IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) are complementary technologies. We pointed out in the...

FullArmor uses SMS 2003 to define group policies beyond Windows; * FullArmor GPAnywhere for SMS.(Systems Management Server 2003)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns Group Policy is, many believe, the single best administrative tool that Microsoft has ever devised. The Group Policy Management Console may be the best reason to move to Windows Server 2003. If you don't have...

Encapsulate Web sites within a Bubble; * Bubbles hold Web sites.(developed by 3D3R Software Studio)(Brief article)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs Here's a cool idea: Encapsulate Web sites as if they were applications so that you can minimize them to the task bar, iconize them to the system tray (which also displays the icon used by the site), and when you...

A look at Juniper certifications; * Tracking the certification program of Cisco's router rival.(Juniper Networks Inc.,Cisco Systems Inc.)(Editorial)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Linda Leung A few newsletters ago, I pointed you to a package of articles written by my colleague Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan about the stresses of taking the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) lab exam. A...

XO 'launches' familiar name for fixed wireless; * XO Holdings reintroduces Nextlink, provider of fixed broadband wireless services.(XO Communications Inc., NEXTLINK Communications Inc.)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy XO Holdings last week "launched" a wireless company - one that bore it six years ago. The competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) reintroduced Nextlink to the industry as a provider of fixed broadband wireless ...

Options for Wi-Fi benchmarking ahead of 802.11.2; * Who needs Wi-Fi benchmarks?
May 3, 2006... Byline: Joanie Wexler There are several factors fueling the need for consistent Wi-Fi performance benchmark testing, a goal of 802.11 Task Group T in its design of an 802.11.2 recommended best practices standard. Final 802.11.2...

Expert identifies the latest DNS challenges; * Part 1 of a Q&A with DNS expert Cricket Liu.(Domain Name System)(Interview)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan DNS expert Cricket Liu this month will release the latest version of his book entitled "DNS and Bind," one of the definitive textbooks about the Internet's Domain Name System. Liu is vice president of...

Mailbag: Readers agree there is more to ID mgmt. than security; * Your thoughts on the wider use of identity management.(Letter to the editor)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns I'm very gratified by the response I got from last week's cry, even desperate plea, for information that identity wasn't somehow becoming merely the authentication step in a larger security process. Quite a few of...

Microsoft is serious about systems management; * News from the 2006 Microsoft Management Summit.(introduced Operations Manager and Systems Management Server)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Dan Twing I spent last week at Microsoft's 2006 Management Summit in San Diego. There were many interesting announcements as Microsoft matures in the management space. The company made a big deal out of what is essentially a...

Novell, ISS shake up the security information and event mgmt. market; * Novell acquires e-Security; ISS offers SIEM as a service.(security information and event management)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Scott Crawford In the recent months that I've written for this newsletter, I've commented from time to time on the security information and event management (SIEM) market. After years of speculation, many have wondered over...

Opinion: Gartner predicts Vista delay; Microsoft denies Vista ship date slip.(Microsoft Windows Vista)(Viewpoint essay)(Brief article)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff The Gartner Gods have spoken. A team of Gartner analysts has issued a report predicting that Microsoft has about as much chance of hitting its latest deadline for the release of Windows Vista as you have of...

IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN draft fails to advance on initial vote.(wireless local area networks)
May 3, 2006... Byline: John Cox The draft IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard failed to move forward on a vote this week. Adversaries on the IEEE's 11n task force quickly issued dueling interpretations of what the failure means. According to...

Time Warner Telecom to add classes of service for VPN; VPN customers to get four classes of service instead of just one.(virtual private networks)(Brief article)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Time Warner Telecom expects to roll out class-of-service support for its Managed MPLS VPN service. The alternative service provider plans to introduce four classes of service that will allow customers to tag...

LCD pioneer scores half-million dollar MIT prize; James Fergason's LCD efforts led to everything from mood rings to computer monitors.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief article)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff James Fergason, the self-described "first guy who saw what [liquid crystal displays] were really good for," has been given a $500,000 award for a lifetime of inventions that have advanced computer, medical...

Internap rolls out application assessment service; Internap offers to help customers track the impact of applications over their networks.(InterNap Network Services Corp.)
May 3, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Internap Network Services announced its Application Assessment Service at Interop in Las Vegas Tuesday. The service, which allows customers to better track the impact of applications over their network, is...

VPN vendor StoneSoft looks for a stepping stone into the U.S. * StoneSoft has technology that maximizes size of VPN trunks.(selling its StoneGate in United States, virtual private networks)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene VPN vendor StoneSoft is stepping up its push to sell its StoneGate security gear in the U.S. The company, based in Finland, made only 20% of its sales in the Americas last year, but it does have interesting...

Wiretap dance; * The American Council on Education vs. the FCC.(Federal Communications Commission)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy A petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit could determine if higher education networks - and perhaps private enterprise networks - will be required to allow wiretapping by law...

May 8, 2006 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.(Rhode Island plans for wireless networks for citizens)(Oracle Corp. introducing patches)(Mozilla Organization enhancing Firefox 1.5 browser)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Past weeks GOOD: Small state, big wireless network Rhode Island is pushing ahead with plans to blanket the state with a $20 million Wi-Fi and WiMax network that it hopes will enable it to better serve citizens and make the state...

Foundry introduces Gigabit switches with PoE; * Foundry's FastIron GS Series.(Foundry Networks Inc., power over ethernet)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Byline: Jeff Caruso Foundry this week at Interop 2006 Las Vegas brought out a series of stackable switches to support Power over Ethernet and offer the option to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet to connect to a network backbone. The...