Network World articles from September 2007

Network World archives from September 2007

My laptop can't see my network anymore.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter I am on a network and never had a problem with printing to various printers that are on the network. All of sudden, I cannot print to any printer and there is no recognition on my computer of the network (or any...

Cisco playing network defense; Its Self-Defending Network strategy moves forward via IronPort buyout, customer demands.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Cisco's 6-year-old Self-Defending Network strategy for securing converged networks remains a work in progress: Acquisitions and internal developments are moving it forward even as customers push Cisco to go above and...

IM test: How we did it.(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... We evaluated each product's instant messaging capabilities, responsiveness, ease of use and ability to integrate with other IM products and protocols, such as AOL Instant Messenger. We wanted the products to integrate with Windows Active...

IBM Lotus Sametime tops corporate IM platform review; Jabber and Cisco follow as close seconds in test of corporate IM platforms.(Product/service evaluation)
September 3, 2007... Messaging has come a long way from the early days of rudimentary chat programs, the DOS and Windows "NET SEND" command and the Novell NetWare "SEND" command. The ideal corporate instant-messaging environment lets users communicate...

Juniper taps CA exec for U.S. enterprise sales; Continues to fill in management gaps.(Brief article)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Juniper Networks this week named Hayley Tabor as its vice president of U.S. enterprise sales. Tabor, 41, joins Juniper from software vendor CA, where she was senior vice president and general manager of the company's...

Onaro software offers storage-capacity monitoring, virtualization features; Management software aims to cut provisioning time.(Onaro SANscreen suite)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Onaro today announced two new modules for its storage-management software that let customers monitor storage capacity and use while reducing the time they spend provisioning storage resources. The company...

Cablevision's metro Ethernet service targets video; * The newest service from Optimum Lightpath.(Brief article)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso Cablevision's business broadband arm recently made available a metro Ethernet service targeted specifically at transporting video. The division is called Optimum Lightpath, and it has a "fully fiber optic"...

Ethical decision-making: Using formal and informal guidelines; * Looking for explicit and implicit ethical guidelines.
September 4, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay In my last two columns, I began discussing the July 30 column by Vauhini Vara of the _Wall Street Journal_ entitled, "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You." The author provides detailed information on how to...

Fast Internet for individuals and businesses? U.S. playing catch-up with Japan in high-speed Internet access for consumers; U.S. business services picture not pretty either.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Scott Bradner The Washington Post last month ran an article on "Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future," in which it paints an impressive picture of the current and future state of residential Internet service in Japan,...

More on whether you're ready to cutting the copper cord; * Living without copper.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler In the last newsletter, we discussed Verizon's migration to a fiber network and the implications that could have for corporate networks. Ultimately, the question is whether it's time to start retiring...

Automation vendor streamlines virtual-server management; Run-book automation provide Opalis compiles catalog of workflows and automated tasks specific to managing virtual environments.(Opalis Process Catalog for Virtualization)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Run-book automation software maker Opalis this week announced it would be packaging its automated IT processes into catalogs targeted at specific tasks IT shops are tackling, such as virtualization. The...

Google denies its Apps just a Microsoft Office add-on; Google responds to criticism of its hosted collaboration suite.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Google officials don't like the suggestion that their own employees depend mostly on Microsoft Office even as Google Apps makes headway into the enterprise collaboration and e-mail market. An August report by...

PowerFile makes use of Blu-ray disks; * PowerFile claims the first to use Blu-ray for high-volume enterprise storage.(Brief article)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor PowerFile last week rolled out an archiving appliance that is one of the first to use Blu-ray disk technology to deliver high-volume and energy efficient storage capacity. The Active Archive Appliance (A3)...

Cisco: oneNAC is better than two; * Cisco blends its NAC gear into a program called oneNAC.(network access control)(Brief article)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Cisco seems to be getting ready to further integrate its NAC gear under a program it calls oneNAC. While Cisco's not acknowledging that name, oneNAC promises to be a new alignment of Cisco's NAC appliance with its...

How do you back up virtual environments? IT administrators discuss how they protect virtual servers using different backup technologies.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor When it comes to backing up virtual servers, IT administrators have a lot of choices. But increasingly, they're finding one method of backup isn't enough to satisfy all the demands of a virtual environment. ...

Telework taking off faster in Europe; * U.S. lags behind Europe in the adoption of flexible work environments.(Brief article)
September 4, 2007... Byline: Amy Schurr The U.S. lags behind Europe in the adoption of flexible work environments, such as telecommuting. Only 55% of U.S. firms polled by IT service provider Dimension Data offer flexible work environments, as compared to a...

WebLOQ launches virtual private community service; Start-up secures e-mail for members.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Start-up WebLOQ has launched its first offering, a private communication service designed to form virtual business communities whose members can safely send and receive e-mail, documents and other exchanges. ...

Network Evolution - Services-Centric Networking.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Frank Dzubeck Every once in a while a subtle evolutionary change occurs that dramatically affects the future of networking. As IT is making a dramatic transition to an SOA, the networking industry has been hesitant to embrace...

Backup technology key to protecting virtual machines; As virtual machines proliferate, IT administrators have to be careful to choose a backup method that doesn't bog down network performance or send licensing costs skyrocketing.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It's not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data. Protection also...

More virtual workers means more potential security gaps; * Security matters.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Robin Gareiss AT&T recently acknowledged thieves stole a laptop containing unencrypted data on present and former employees. The laptop belonged not to an AT&T employee but to an employee of a third-party contractor doing work...

Two pictures of mobile communications; * There are two views about the efficacy of mobile communications.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman In the context of basic communications, such as e-mail and calendaring; as well for unified messaging; there are really two views about the efficacy of mobile communications. The "small" picture for mobile...

RFID boosts supply chain performance; * In the retail and manufacturing world, the supply network is critical to success.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz For a change of pace I'd like to deviate from discussing WAN optimization controllers and application acceleration devices and focus on a different kind of optimization technology geared for supply networks: radio...

Dunes unveils SMB-ready virtual appliances; Two virtual appliances from automation software maker offer small-to-midsize companies enterprise-level provisioning and desktop life-cycle management.(Dunes Technologies )
September 4, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Automation software maker Dunes Technologies this week announced it would release two virtual appliances designed to help small-to-midsize business manage virtualization in their environments. Dunes, a Swiss...

MetroPCS proposes merger with Leap Wireless; Merger would build 5th largest wireless service provider in United States.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed, John Cox Wireless carrier MetroPCS has proposed a merger valued at about $5.5 billion with rival Leap Wireless. If completed, the merger would create the fifth largest U.S. cellular operator, covering most of the 200...

InovaWave launches VMware-optimization software; Performance-management software maker introduces VirtualOctane for ESX Server, designed to boost performance in VMware virtual environments.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie InovaWave this week introduced software the start-up says will give any VMware ESX server environment a performance boost by optimizing resource use and arranging virtual transactions based on preset goals. ...

Cisco unveils 802.11n wireless LAN access point for enterprises; Beta user Duke University weighs 11n implications.
September 4, 2007... Byline: John Cox Cisco Tuesday jumped into the IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN market with a two-radio access point based on the draft standard and aimed squarely at its huge enterprise customer base. Smaller WLAN rivals such as Meru...

Foleo, Foleo, where are thou, Foleo? Palm scraps its "smartphone companion".
September 4, 2007... Byline: John Cox In an embarrassing setback for Palm, the handheld pioneer has scrapped its Foleo project, a two-and-a-half-pound "smart phone companion". In a posting on Palm's blog, Palm CEO Ed Colligan wrote that he decided to...

SysAdmin song of the year: Is it in you?
September 5, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie First let me say as much as I write about networking and computers, I have no systems administrator skills. And second, let me say as much as I write in general, I have never attempted to write a song (maybe some...

Two companies heading in different directions.(Palm and Apple)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Keith Shaw It was hard not to notice the timing of separate announcements last week from two of the biggest companies in the portable device market. The first, from Palm, was the cancellation of the company's Foleo "mobile...

Cambrian House enables entrepreneurs to get ideas off the ground; * Crowdsourcing to evaluate business ideas.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs I had a really good idea: I wanted to take video cameras and run their output through image processing software to find faces. Next I wanted to determine whether those faces were pointing in the direction of the...

Storm worm spoils Labor Day for some; Latest spam trick disguised as a holiday e-greeting delivers malware.(Brief article)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson The Storm worm takes no holidays; over this past long weekend this busy piece of malware emerged as part of a spam campaign that pointed recipients to a Web site wishing them a happy Labor Day, then downloaded an...

SurfControl upgrades e-mail filter software; Boosts spam detection while adding compliance features.(Brief article)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson SurfControl on Wednesday announced an upgrade to its e-mail security filter software that adds reputation services and new compliance features, while also easing policy management. SurfControl E-mail Filter...

New things from old friends; * A busy month for identity management announcements.(August)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Dave Kearns There's a whole raft of product announcements I need to catch up with, and if August was this busy can you imagine what the fall and winter will be like? I mean, don't all the identity management vendors try to...

Universal Services Fund fraud, present and future.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Johna Till Johnson The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. If that's the case, when it comes to telecom policy, the federal government is definitely...

Microsoft springs 'Flash killer' with Linux flourish.(Microsoft Silverlight 1.0)
September 5, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft as expected shipped its Silverlight 1.0 multimedia browser plug-in Wednesday and added an unexpected spin by saying it would work with Novell to create support on the Linux platform. Silverlight is a...

Creating an SSL certificate for WEBrick.(Brief article)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Steve Blass We are developing a Ruby on Rails application and it is almost ready for production. We need to use SSL and https URLs rather than plain old http.The WEBrick server Rails uses is different from Apache, and we're...

Move over VoIP, unified communications is the new battleground; * Recent convergence news analyzed.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Today, we'd like to discuss how recent announcements from Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, and Verizon point to trends in IP telephony and IP communications. First, the Cisco and Microsoft press...

NetApp sues Sun for patent infringement; NetApp is seeking to prohibit Sun from further development and distribution of Zettabyte File System.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor Network Appliance filed a lawsuit in District Court in Lufkin, Texas, today claiming that Sun infringed on seven NetApp patents for the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) and RAID. NetApp claims that Sun infringed...

I just need PHP 4.3.2 or higher!(Easy CGI's SWsoft Plesk)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Let me start by asking if any of you have experience with Plesk? Plesk from SWsoft is a Web-based control panel for Windows and Linux servers that has been adopted by a number of hosting providers. I was told by...

Veeam takes on virtual management; Former Aelita executives make a splash with virtual FastSCP freeware and look to add commercial products for managing virtual environments.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie A Cleveland start-up with roots in Windows management is taking its past successes and applying them to virtual environments. Veeam was founded in March 2006 by former executives of Aelita Software, which developed...

IPv6: Dual stack where you can; tunnel where you must.
September 5, 2007... IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of practical approaches. One technique,...

IT staffers troubleshoot wired nets from handhelds; * Extending traditional systems and network management to mobile staff.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Joanie Wexler This newsletter frequently discusses mobile network and device management. But what about the other way around: Managing and troubleshooting wired systems from a mobile device? To date, the big management...

IT career news nuggets, plus career competition giveaways; * Enter to win some fabulous Network World prizes.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Linda Leung Today, some career-related gems that were recently published within the pages of NetworkWorld.com, plus details of a competition to win a free Cisco training course delivered by Cisco authorized training partner...

Virtualization company XenSource unveils OEM edition; Embedded virtualization hypervisor may be first of its kind.(Brief article)
September 5, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor XenSource -- which Citrix Systems is in the process of acquiring -- today announced a version of its open source Xen virtualization hypervisor that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can embed in their servers...

Virtugo Software pumps up virtual management suite.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Virtugo Software this week announced it had upgraded its flagship software suite with capabilities to better plan for necessary virtual capacity, manage virtual desktops and track resource use within physical and...

Citrix buys XML security firm QuickTree; Citrix gear to gain security and performance software.
September 5, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Citrix Systems has bought QuickTree, a software developer focused on improving security and performance for XML and Web services. QuickTree software can be added to network gear to guard against attacks carried...

Google, others gearing up to introduce office apps; Online conferencing, collaborative Web applications on tap at Office 2.0.(Conference news)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin If you're looking for new workplace collaboration tools, keep your eye on the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week. Google launched Docs & Spreadsheets at last year's conference, and some observers...

Juniper tuning itself for growth, efficiency; Juniper COO tells analysts: "We have some work to do.".(Stephen Elop)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Juniper Networks is changing the way it conducts operations internally in order to boost profitability, market share, streamline processes and speed decision making. The company is "executing transformative...

Vista's IPv6: Not an easy upgrade; Microsoft execs admit steep learning curve for new Internet protocol.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan If you think migrating to IPv6 is as simple as upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista, think again. Vista is the first operating system from Microsoft that automatically installs and enables IPv6, the...

Two tales of NAC implementation; * Some words of caution when implementing NAC.(network access control)(Brief article)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Here are two cautionary tales about NAC implementations, both from Rob Whiteley, an analyst with Forrester Research. First, a large corporation wanted to implement NAC and tried out the three different categories:...

Cisco, Chambers and the call for more bandwidth; * Cisco CEO John Chambers is head bandwidth cheerleader.(Brief article)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso Cisco CEO John Chambers very often makes public calls for higher bandwidth in the nation's network infrastructure. More bandwidth means router and switch upgrades, which means more money for Cisco, so obviously the...

Bechtel put Vista's IPv6 stack on trial; Implementation seen as stronger than one for Windows XP.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Bechtel has been testing Vista's IPv6 capabilities since January and so far likes what it sees. In fact, the engineering-services giant plans to require the operating system for all new computer purchases...

High-speed wireless promises to move multigigabyte files in seconds; Unlicensed, 60GHz radio waves could hold key to high-bandwidth wireless networks.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Imagine a wireless network that could achieve bandwidth high enough to transfer an entire video presentation from your laptop directly onto a conference room projector. Several firms are designing products that...

Social Security number use restrictions wanted; Consumers Union poll finds that Americans want stricter rules on what companies can do with their Social Security numbers.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed A poll released today by the Consumers Union released suggests that a large majority of Americans support government action that would restrict the use of Social Security numbers to help prevent identity theft. ...

Microsoft whips up virtualization spin ahead of VMWorld.
September 6, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Thursday went on the offensive saying its first virtual machine management tool would ship next month and spinning its virtualization wares and strategy days ahead of rival VMware's annual conference...

Verizon ranks well in latest J.D. Power wireless study; Customer-reported wireless service problems on decline, study finds.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Verizon has come out on top in J.D. Power and Associates' latest wireless-call quality study, garnering the highest rating in four out of six U.S. regions studied. The study, which is conducted semiannually and is...

China modernizes payments networks; High-speed fiber-optic networks will anchor China's sophisticated payment systems.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer China has rapidly evolved into an economic powerhouse, but its banking, check payments and credit- and debit-card systems haven't kept pace in the vast country where much is rural, people traditionally didn't...

Ethical decision-making: Principles, rights and duties, and intuitive cues; * Completing the ethical analysis.(Column)
September 6, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay In my last three columns, I've been discussing the July 30 column by Vauhini Vara of the _Wall Street Journal_ entitled, "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You." The author provides detailed information on...

Flaw puts BIND 8 out to pasture; Cisco warns of DoS flaw; * Flaw puts BIND 8 out to pasture* Cisco warns of DoS flaw* A Time-to-Patch: Apple 2006, and other interesting reading.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Jason Meserve Question of the week: Now the the iPhone has been out for a while and Apple has just announced the iPod Touch (an iPhone without the phone parts but with 802.11b and g support) what is your company's stance...

Nanotech breakthrough could put entire YouTube contents on an iPod-size device; * IBM unveils technology to make more dense storage components.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor IBM researchers last week unveiled two nanotechnology projects that could lead to more scalable and dense disk drives and chips. Information about these projects, which focus on devices built from atoms or...

Open source proponents denounce Microsoft licensing program; Legal tussle on tap as court reviews the success of MCPP.(Microsoft Communications Protocol Program )
September 6, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer Five years after being pegged a monopolist, Microsoft is coming under scrutiny for efforts to license its proprietary technology in accordance with antitrust legal demands from U.S. and European regulators. ...

Messaging and the dark side of the moon; * Row 44 looking to provide broadband communication services to airline passengers.(Brief article)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman Back in the days of manned missions to the moon, astronauts would be out of communication with Houston for several minutes as they passed behind the moon. Aside from the beverage service, flying is a bit like...

Ignore the port 80 black hole at your peril; * Don't lose control of port 80.(Column)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Even though Steve was trained as a physicist, we usually spend more time in this newsletter discussing topics such as application delivery than we do talking about physics. In this newsletter we get...

New network service option; * Flat fee for network health, not support.(Sinu)
September 6, 2007... Byline: James E. Gaskin Ever wondered if your computer support company works as hard and fast as possible to fix your problems? After all, the longer the service call, the higher your bill and their payment. If the method advanced...

Spam up in August, despite PDF type's short life.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson August was a busy month for spammers, with junk e-mail levels reaching nearly 70% of all messages sent -- despite the quick decline of a new type of spam. According to Symantec's monthly spam report for...

EMC unveils dedupe, backup for virtual, physical environments.(Brief article)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor EMC on Thursday unveiled two new appliances from its acquisition of Avamar that perform data deduplication and back up data in virtualized and physical server environments. The Virtual Edition for VMware takes...

Apple and Palm head in different directions.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Keith Shaw It was hard not to notice the timing of separate announcements last week from two of the biggest companies in the portable-device market. The first, from Palm, was the cancellation of the company's Foleo "mobile...

Safety by disclosure.(Column)
September 6, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Last week I was philosophizin' about security failures in complex systems -- a topic triggered by a reader asking whether full, i.e. public, disclosure of security vulnerabilities was a better strategy than trying to...

Nine wireless network companies to watch; Smarter smart phones, beyond the BlackBerry and exploiting XML.(Company overview)
September 6, 2007... Byline: John Cox New or emerging wireless and mobile companies continue to be a fountain of innovation, as our selection this year shows. We chose this list for one or more of several reasons, but we were interested in companies whose...

Appetite for video spurs WAN management tools; * VBrick is latest vendor to unveil bandwidth-saving technology.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz The explosive growth of video traffic is no longer a surprise to most WAN managers. But lest anyone forget, new studies keep emerging to remind enterprises just how fast end users' appetites for YouTube clips and...

Financially motivated malware thrives; Expect more spam, botnets in final months of 2007.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Financially motivated malware attacks are on the rise, with automated software packages making it easy for unskilled hackers to earn a living by sending out spam, researchers at messaging security vendor Secure...

Here's why .pdf spam went pffft.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Paul McNamara It's no secret that spammers have informal communications channels and freely share tricks of the trade on the Internet. But what happened in August is enough to make you suspect they have an organized trade union...

The spiraling cost of compliance; Staff time and storage requirements eat away at IT budgets as companies grapple with logging and archiving compliance data.
September 7, 2007... IT executives and security professionals know that the web of laws, regulations and private-association rules that must be complied with gets wider, more complex and more costly every day. When Nemertes Research asked participants in a...

Plan to use RFID in border control draws fire.
September 7, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer A U.S. government plan to use long-range RFID technology as part of a border-crossing security initiative is coming under intensified fire by an industry group. Beginning Jan. 31, 2008, a valid driver's...

VMware, beware; Competition looms for the virtualization frontrunner as VMworld conference kicks off.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Robert Mullins As VMware hosts its first VMworld conference as a public company this week in San Francisco, its star is ascending. Since going public at $29 a share Aug. 14, the company's stock price has not closed below $51....

Seeking compliance in a mobile world; Newly public financial firm Thomas Weisel Partners retools policies and procedures to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act while prepping for the changing nature of mobile threats.(Interview)
September 10, 2007... When Thomas Weisel Partners went public last year, it forced some dramatic changes in how the San Francisco-based investment-banking company approached IT -- and in CSO Beth Cannon's job description. She recently completed an 18-month...

Comparing T-1 and DSL service.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter Please explain to me the pluses of using a T-1 vs DSL.-- Gregory LaPaugh. A T-1 is considered more of a business-grade Internet connection - a connection that you would be able to comfortably handle hosting a...

Good policy makes for good security; Inergy Automotive shares strategies for creating policies that apply across the globe.
September 10, 2007... Almost everyone agrees that proper security stems as much from good policy as it does from technology, but you don't hear much about how to create great policies. Arun DeSouza is responsible for policy and a whole lot more at Inergy...

Defending the defense industry; Raytheon offers advice on combating new breeds of socially engineered attacks.(Interview)
September 10, 2007... Raytheon is a $20 billion defense technology company with about 73,000 employees and customers from around the globe. Jeffrey Brown is CISO and director of infrastructure services for the firm, which means he's responsible for traditional...

VMworld a launching pad for virtualization wares; Exhibitors showcase products for managing, backing up and protecting virtualized servers and workstations.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor VMware isn't the only vendor unveiling technology at its annual conference. Several exhibitors, too, plan to demonstrate new wares at this week's VMworld conference in San Francisco, which is expected to draw as...

HP core LAN switch boasts new architecture; Follows HP's launch of ProVision-based edge switches.(HP ProCurve Switch 8212zl)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy HP this week is expected to unveil a core LAN switch backed by a lifetime warranty that allows enterprises to deploy an operationally consistent network from the edge to the core. HP's ProCurve Switch 8212zl is...

9/11 security lessons lost on businesses? CEOs should act to protect key national assets, consultant says.(Stephen Squires)
September 11, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene CHICAGO -- In the six years since 9/11 people in charge of key infrastructure have lost their sense of urgency to improve security, according to a panel at the Security Standard conference today. "Treat every...

Does unified messaging have a place in corporate/public policy? * Unified messaging can go a long way to alleviate highway congestion.(Column)
September 11, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman The amount of time devoted to commuting in any major city around the world is increasing. London charges motorists a significant daily fee for driving in the most congested parts of the city and New York is...

Microsoft delivers RFID with BizTalk 2006 R2.
September 11, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft late Monday released BizTalk Server 2006 R2, its first software with RFID support and the foundation for its SOA, supply chain and business process-management platforms. The company said BizTalk...