**** NETWORKING-DECISION-MAKERS NEWSLETTER ****
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**** CONTENTS ****
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- Sponsor: Quest Software
- News: Nortel Networks supplies digital TV system for China's Gansu
province
- News: More Crossed Wires at Nortel
- News: Skype takes voicemail life
- News: (10 additional headlines)
- Job Center: Systems Analyst/Programmer Needed
- Job Center: Information Services Supervisor Needed
- Job Center: Sr. IT Engineer - Cognos Needed
- Job Center: (2 additional postings)
- Tech Stocks: Weekly Recap of ITtoolbox Stock Indices
- ITtoolbox Blogs: Case Of The Stealthy Spike - Part XI
- ITtoolbox Blogs: Open Source vs. Commercial NMS software
- ITtoolbox Blogs: The ITO in the year 2010
- ITtoolbox Blogs: (2 additional blogs)
- Industry Articles: Decoding The CIO-CFO Relationship
- Industry Articles: Are Cisco Certifications Worthwhile?
- Industry Articles: How to Handle Confrontation, Part 2
- Industry Articles: The Perils of 24/7
- Industry Articles: Consumer VoIP Reality
- Industry Articles: The ROI of VoIP
- Tutorials: ATM Pocket Guide
- Tutorials: How Operating Systems Work
- White Papers: The Top-10 Benefits of USB Device Connectivity
- White Papers: Unified Threat Management (UTM) for Small Business
Networks
- White Papers: SAS: The Path to Maximum SATA Scalability
- White Papers: Today's IT Security Issues: Minimize risk and Improve
ROI
- White Papers: META Group paper Selection Criteria for SSL VPNs
- White Papers: Application Containerization: Manage Value, Not
Infrastructure
- Featured Discussion Group: NETWORKING-CAREER (1 message)
- Press Releases: (1 recent release)
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NORTEL NETWORKS SUPPLIES DIGITAL TV SYSTEM FOR CHINA'S GANSU PROVINCE
(Networking News)
In a $12-million-US contract, Nortel Networks will supply a digital
cable TV system to the predominantly rural population of China's Gansu
province. The contract involves the broadcast and television...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130181
MORE CROSSED WIRES AT NORTEL (Networking News)
Nortel Networks (NT) can't seem to shake its problems. Just as the
telecom-equipment maker was putting two years of accounting woes
behind it, two star executives walked out the door, raising questions
about Nortel's direction...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130176
SKYPE TAKES VOICEMAIL LIFE (Networking News)
Skype has released version 1.3 of its VoIP and instant messaging
client software for Windwos XP and Windows 2000. The software features
the first official version of Skype Voicemail service that has
previously...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130166
SECURITY CHIP TO LIMIT OS X TO MACS (Networking News)
Apple could use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip to ensure that
only Mac computers can run its OS X operating system, according to a
news analysis from Gartner. The TPM is an...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130130
APPLE PATCHES 11 SECURITY HOLES (Networking News)
Apple has released a security update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities in
the OS X operating system. The patched vulnerabilities include holes
in both OS X Jaguar 10.3 and OS X Tiger 10.4. While...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130106
MICROSOFT'S LIGHTSPEED IN SLO-MO (Networking News)
With great fanfare, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman William H. Gates III
premiered SBC Communications' (SBC) groundbreaking television service,
dubbed Project Lightspeed, at the Consumer Electronics Show in
January. The service, which uses Microsoft's Internet protocol
television...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130068
NEW SPRINT LOCAL HEAD OPTIMISTIC OF GROWTH (Networking News)
The new chief executive of Sprint Corp.'s local phone service division
said Wednesday he looked forward to steering the
soon-to-be-independent business and shrugged off concerns that the
sector is on the...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130054
TOOLS LET USERS TALK TO WEB SITES (Networking News)
The Voice Commerce Group has launched its WhitePhone and Hello
products to voice-enable web sites for customer support. The system
gives online retailers a new tool to help shoppers complete purchases,
and reduce the number...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130030
YAHOO AND CISCO MERGE ANTI-SPAM SPECIFICATIONS (Networking News)
Yahoo and Cisco have teamed up in an effort to reduce the amount of
junk email reaching users' inboxes. The firms have announced a
specification called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) that they
hope...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130023
ROSETTA IS A KEY TO APPLE'S INTEL SHIFT (Networking News)
Apple Computer is making the leap to Intel thanks in part to a
software translation technology from a 65-person company in Los
Gatos.Transitive Technologies confirmed Tuesday that it is providing
Apple with...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130022
POTENTIAL TROUBLE LOOMS FOR SBC'S NET-BASED TV (Networking News)
SBC Communications, which promised to launch its much-ballyhooed
Internet-based TV service later this year, will almost certainly have
to delay a commercial rollout until at least 2006, some analysts
say....
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130013
APPLE UNCAGES LEOPARD OS X 10.5 (Networking News)
The next version of Apple's OS X operating system will be called
Leopard and is scheduled for release in late 2006 or early 2007. Apple
chief executive Steve Jobs revealed the news to...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130012
APPLE SEES SMOOTH SWITCH TO INTEL SOME ARE SKEPTICAL AS JOBS SETS A
2007 DATE FOR CHANGEOVER (Networking News)
Steven Jobs took the stage at Apple Computer's Worldwide Developer
Conference here to tell more than 3,000 of his most enthusiastic fans
and occasionally also his harshest critics that he...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/news/nr.asp?i=130009
**** ITTOOLBOX JOB CENTER ****
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Systems Analyst/Programmer Needed
Talent Partners is seeking a Systems Analyst/Programmer who has a B.S.
and/or Masters in Computer Science, Math, Business or MIS. Company
Information: Talent Partners, the industry leader of Broadcast support
services to the Advertising industry, enjoys...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/findjobs/display.asp?db=1&i=463
Information Services Supervisor Needed
U.S. Foodservice is seeking an Information Service Supervisor who has
at least 3 years of experience in networking and PC support and who is
skilled in client connectivity and TCP/IP issues. Description: U.S.
Foodservice, one of the...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/findjobs/display.asp?db=1&i=454
Sr. IT Engineer - Cognos Needed
Qualcomm is seeking a Sr. IT Engineer - Cognos who has at least 5
years experience in IT and who is skilled in Cognos ReportNet,
Impromtu and PowerPlay. Description of Role: Provide daily management
of Cognos...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/findjobs/display.asp?db=1&i=446
Architecture Junior Architect II Needed
Accenture is seeking an Architecture Junior Architect II who has
strong analytical, problem solving, communication and facilitation
skills. If you join Accenture, you can make great ideas happen for
some of the world's most dynamic companies....
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/findjobs/display.asp?db=1&i=429
Architecture Architect Needed
Accenture is seeking an Architecture Architect who has at least 2
years of IT experience and who is skilled in network architecture
definition, design, creation and requirements gathering/development.
If you join Accenture, you can make great...
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/findjobs/display.asp?db=1&i=428
**** TECHNOLOGY STOCK INDICES - WEEKLY PERFORMANCE ****
INDEX 06/06/05 06/13/05 %CHANGE
SCM 52.38 53.35 +1.85% BEST
EAI 21.08 21.40 +1.52%
Networking 67.39 67.86 +0.70%
ERP 66.81 67.09 +0.42%
Knowledge Mgmt 69.08 68.83 -0.36%
CRM 39.82 39.45 -0.93%
Web Design/Dev 44.17 43.59 -1.31%
E-Business 53.77 52.80 -1.80% WORST
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**** ITTOOLBOX BLOGS ****
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/
Case Of The Stealthy Spike - Part XI
By SecurityMonkey
"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most
commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no
new or special features from which deductions may be drawn."...
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/r/r.asp?r=4550&b=2
Open Source vs. Commercial NMS software
By Andrew Kramer
ITtoolbox Blogs There are many open source options network monitoring
and management systems available today. Are these tools the Holy Grail
for network managers and are they the Death of commercial...
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/r/r.asp?r=4497&b=179
The ITO in the year 2010
By Joe Santana
Will corporate IT still be around in the next five years?
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/r/r.asp?r=4586&b=107
Blogging's Dirty Words
By Matthew Moran
I'm doing all I can to stay away from the recent Michael Jackson news.
Besides, this story actually impacts people in a very real way. Most
blog and forum software allows you to exclude dirty words...
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/r/r.asp?r=4591&b=79
Yes Sir, May I have another!
By ThunderMace2000
Ok so a reference to pledge hazings from Animal House may not be the
best or most recognized but, I got some really great feedback on my
challenge and my incomplete answer. Hey I'm excited about it.....
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/r/r.asp?r=4541&b=96
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DECODING THE CIO-CFO RELATIONSHIP
by Ann Senn and Kenneth Porrello
Collaboration proves more effective than combativeness in tackling
long-term business challenges.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4936
ARE CISCO CERTIFICATIONS WORTHWHILE?
by Cram Session
This article discusses the current Cisco career certifications, and
whether or not they are still valuable.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4935
HOW TO HANDLE CONFRONTATION, PART 2
by Joe Santana
As IT attempts to better align itself with the business, confrontation
is unavoidable. Here are six steps that can make handling these touchy
situations easier.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4932
THE PERILS OF 24/7
by Jim Buttjer
So you want no downtime? Do you really know what that demands?
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4931
CONSUMER VOIP REALITY
by Lance Ulanoff
What consumers don't know about Voice over IP should concern them.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4928
THE ROI OF VOIP
by Carrie Mathews
The CIO Executive Council shares insights and tips on VoIP
implementation.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4927
**** TUTORIALS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/
ATM POCKET GUIDE
by Stephan Schultz
This Pocket Guide is intended to give you an introduction to the
basics of ATM and then to give some details on various measurement
methods.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4937
HOW OPERATING SYSTEMS WORK
by Dave Coustan and Curt Franklin
The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware
and software so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but
predictable way. In this article, we'll tell you what a piece of
software must do to be called an operating system, show you how the
operating system in your desktop computer works and give you some
examples of how to take control of the other operating systems around
you.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4933
**** WHITE PAPERS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/
THE TOP-10 BENEFITS OF USB DEVICE CONNECTIVITY
by Silex Technology America
In this article, Silex takes a look at the Top-10 ways businesses,
government agencies, homeowners, resellers, and system integrators can
utilize USB device servers to connect USB devices directly to a
network.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=4934
UNIFIED THREAT MANAGEMENT (UTM) FOR SMALL BUSINESS NETWORKS
by Atchison Frazer, ServGate
Small businesses must add unified threat management (UTM) devices that
provide defense-in-depth and multi-layered protection to existing
network topologies and augment conventional defenses such as desktop
antivirus software.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rdoc.asp?i=4930
SAS: THE PATH TO MAXIMUM SATA SCALABILITY
by LSI Logic and Seagate Technology
SATA storage offers high capacity and low cost-per-GB, but scaling can
be cumbersome and inefficient. Get the scoop on how enterprise-class
SAS infrastructure enables SATA disc drives to transcend the
scalability constraints inherent in their desktop DNA.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rdoc.asp?i=4921
TODAY'S IT SECURITY ISSUES: MINIMIZE RISK AND IMPROVE ROI
by Diamelle Technologies
Learn more about how the security risks facing your corporation can be
minimized while significantly reducing your operational costs. This
white paper describes the features found in Diamelle's Identity
Management framework as well as how it can be integrated with both
custom and off the shelf software.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rdoc.asp?i=4886
META GROUP PAPER SELECTION CRITERIA FOR SSL VPNS
by Mark Bouchard
Meta Group's Mark Bouchard details key SSL VPN criteria-usability, and
a unified policy and endpoint security model--in this vendor-neutral
paper, free from Aventail.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rdoc.asp?i=4853
APPLICATION CONTAINERIZATION: MANAGE VALUE, NOT INFRASTRUCTURE
by Donn Rochette, CTO, Trigence Corp.
Applications are welded to their infrastructure, causing problems for
higher availability, configuration management, dev/test cycle
management, failover and other common issues. Learn how Trigence AE's
containerization approach decouples applications from the
infrastructure to deliver greater manageability, portability and
protection.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rdoc.asp?i=4725
**** THIS WEEK'S FEATURED DISCUSSION GROUP - NETWORKING-CAREER ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/groups
What is the value of RHCE vs CCNP Or ??
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/gr.asp?i=758311
**** PRESS RELEASES ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/press
Allied telesyn continues the ip access web evolution with imap system
release 6.0
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/press/pr.asp?i=130052
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