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Interop Labs: Network engineers focus on NAC, UC products
In early April, in a drafty warehouse in Belmont, California, dozens of network engineers attempted to piece together hundreds
of commercial and open source products as part of the 2008 Interop Labs initiative.
Review: New tools control access by privileged users
Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating
system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally audited. Enter the class of products referred to as
privilege account management wares.
FCoE: the evolutionary approach to SAN expansion
Ever since the emergence of Fibre Channel SANs in the late 1990s, enterprise IT managers have maintained two sets of networks,
one for storage I/O traffic and the other for data network traffic. But system consolidation and SAN expansion efforts are
driving the need for a unified fabric where multiple traffic types -- network, storage and clustering -- are all carried over
a single network infrastructure.
Despite lower IT spending, industry set to party, keep products rolling
The network industry will convene this week at its largest trade show and conference, Interop, under the pall of lowered IT
spending amid a bearish economy.
No slowdown for U.S. tech industry
Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn?
Pingsta helps network pros land consulting gigs
Pingsta, an elite social-networking site for network engineers, is expanding into consulting on IT projects for businesses
and service providers.
WEB 2.0 - Firms getting blind-sided by social networking
Still thinking about building a social-networking site for your employees? Sure they haven't started without you? Check Facebook,
you might get a surprise.
Public safety spectrum, rural broadband grab spotlight
Speakers at the Wireless Communications Association meeting in Washington, D.C., this week threw out a flurry of suggestions
to improve both public and private broadband access in the United States, from public investment to holding new spectrum auctions
to allowing unlicensed use of TV “white spaces.”
Data center mushrooming? Why not get rid of it?
If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth? Booming businesses such as Bazaarvoice
are turning to Web hosting companies, including Rackspace, Savvis, AT&T, Terramark and IBM, to handle their data center operations.
WEB 2.0 - IBM turns server sideways for Web 2.0 build-out
IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such
as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday.
SDK showdown: iPhone vs. Android
While the iPhone has without a doubt been the big success story of the past year in the mobile phone world, many other companies
are planning to release similar devices this year to challenge its status as the undisputed king of smartphones. Some of the
more intriguing competitors for the iPhone will be those devices that are powered by Android, Google’s open source mobile
platform.
Cisco security exec has big plans for Ironport technology
Cisco is looking to aggressively incorporate its reputation and monitoring gear into security gear, all under the direction
the former CEO of Ironport, the company Cisco bought for its reputation technology.
Microsoft targets low-cost PC market
Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor, according the
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer.
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