Justify Your Existence
Along with mid-winter's low temperatures, IT outsourcing continues to blow an icy and unwelcome wind of change throughout IT departments across the country. According to a recent Network Magazine survey, almost half of the readers we polled indicated that their company is outsourcing some IT functions. One of those functions being outsourced--brace yourself--is network management.
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An Open Letter to the Vendor Community - Here we are, a few years into the 21st century, and we're still using an old, obsolete network protocol to control and operate our network devices.
Web Application Security For All - New Web application security products are packaging the expertise of consultants into software tools and appliances.
Configuring Wireless Security - HP locks down wireless access points with Linux-based configuration management software from AirWave.
Information Lifecycle Management: Why Bother? - Information lifecycle management may be the holy grail of the storage industry, but today it remains little more than a marketing push to sell storage hardware.
Anti-Spamıs Unconquerable Foe: Human Anxiety
-- Weıre going to winıthat was the unspoken message of this yearıs Spam Conference (www.spamconference.com), the third annual gathering of mail filter hackers, researchers, lawyers, and anti-spam vendors dedicated to purging junk mail from the Internet. ıTechnically the problem is under...
Microsoft Releases Anti-Spyware Beta and Malware Clean-up Tool
-- A beta version of a Microsoft anti-spyware tool is available for download today at www.microsoft.com/spyware. Microsoft acquired the anti-spyware technology when it bought GIANT Company in December 2004. Users who download the beta will receive daily updates of spyware signatures...
Switch Prices to Drop Tenfold ?
-- A new chipset from Broadcom may well cut the cost of edge switching by tenfold while delivering a ream of new functions....
Startup Zetera Aims to Shake Up Storage
-- With SAN and NAS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI, the last thing youıd think weıd need is yet another networked storage transport technology. The folks at startup Zetera aim to convince you otherwise. They noticed that all of these technologies employ...
iSCSI and SATA a Dynamic Duo
-- Itıs no shock to anyone that the price of storage hardware is falling like a rock. Yet there is still a perceived notion that if you need performance, youıll have to resort to comparatively expensive Fibre Channel storage systems with...
Genesys Embraces Istanbul
-- Genesys and Microsoft announced on Monday the introduction of the Genesys Enterprise Telephony Software (GETS) for Microsoft's Live Communication Server 2005 (LCS), codenamed Istanbul....
Saving OpenScape
-- Will the recently announced sales and marketing alliance between Siemens and Microsoft finally be the kick that turns OpenScape into a profit maker? That was the biggest question I had listening to the two communications giants as they gave their shpiel last week.
The End of E-mail: Stamping Out SMTP
Metered messaging technologies are gaining in popularity, and Microsoft is
positioning them to compete with SMTP itself.
STANDARDS
WS-Security Makes SOAP Safe
A new standard locks down SOAP messages, but more work is necessary before
widespread Web services can roll.
SIMPLE Finds the Beef
Message Session Relay Protocol can open up new instant messaging
possibilities, using SIP and other extensions to bring enhanced voice
features to IM.
Will VoIP Hang Up the Internet?
A new transport protocol may protect the Internet from Voice over IP and
other rich-media streams.
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Intuit Help Desk and Network Management Software
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Join editors from InformationWeek, Network Computing, and Network Magazine as they discuss the business drivers and network architectural requirements for implementing corporate-wide VoIP. Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:00-10:00 PT / 12:00-1:00 PM ET.
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