**** NETWORKING-DECISION-MAKERS NEWSLETTER ****
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 http://networking.ITtoolbox.com
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**** CONTENTS ****
- Sponsor: CDW
- Sponsor: Quest Software
- Sponsor: Macrovision
- News: BellSouth Reports Slight Profit in 3Q
- News: Free to right home: any of IBM's patents
- News: Cisco connects disaster relief services
- News: (7 additional headlines)
- Job Center: Sr. Linux Systems Administrators Needed
- Job Center: Empower Analyst Needed
- Job Center: Senior Data Network Engineer Needed
- Job Center: (1 additional posting)
- Tech Stocks: Weekly Recap of ITtoolbox Stock Indices
- ITtoolbox Blogs: Sweet Anonymity
- ITtoolbox Blogs: Identification reuse
- ITtoolbox Blogs: PING-REDUX
- ITtoolbox Blogs: (4 additional blogs)
- Industry Articles: Advanced Certifications: Taking Your Career to
New Heights
- White Papers: Root Cause Analysis for IT Incidents Investigation
- White Papers: Assessing Compliance to the Payment Card Industry
(PCI) Security Standard
- White Papers: Taking Control of Your IT Environment: Regulatory
Compliance and Operational Excellence
- White Papers: Core Elements of the Cisco Self-Defending Network
Strategy
- White Papers: Streamlining Application Configuration for the
Enterprise
- White Papers: Avoiding Costs From Oversizing Data Center and Network
Room Infrastructure
- White Papers: Building a Backup Strategy for SMBs
- White Papers: Best Practices in Change Management for the Mid-sized
Business
- FAQs: CMM 5 Documentation
- Featured Discussion Group: IBM-AIX-L (5 messages)
- Books: Real Process Improvement Using the CMMI
- Upcoming Events: (3 upcoming events)
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11 Things to Know about Active Directory Recovery
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BELLSOUTH REPORTS SLIGHT PROFIT IN 3Q (Networking News)
BellSouth Corp., the part owner of Cingular Wireless and the dominant
local telephone provider in the Southeast, reported a 2.3 percent
increase in third-quarter profit in Tuesday, buoyed by improving
wireless and broadband...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103886
FREE TO RIGHT HOME: ANY OF IBM'S PATENTS (Networking News)
IBM is unlocking the rights to its entire portfolio of patents to
software developers creating technology for the health care and
education fields. The initiative, to be officially unveiled today,
will allow developers free access...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103377
CISCO CONNECTS DISASTER RELIEF SERVICES (Networking News)
Aiming to break down the barriers between emergency response services,
Cisco has unveiled an internet-based technology that connects
disparate communication techniques. The Internet Protocol
Interoperability and Collaboration System (Ipics) acts as a
translation service between...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103378
A WEB ON THE GRID (Networking News)
You don't have to dig very deep into the subject of high-speed
Internet access before you come across heated arguments over the
virtues and shortcomings of nearly every kind of link: Wi-Fi, DSL,
cable, satellite...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103379
SUDDENLY, EVERYONE SEEMS TO WANT A PIECE OF AOL'S DIAL-UP BUSINESS
(Networking News)
Did I miss something? One day, America Online is this Internet
anachronism, stuck in a bygone dial-up era when the world has gone
broadband. Now suddenly it's this tech stud muffin being pursued by
Google,...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103380
EBAY PROMISES FREE PHONE CALLS (Networking News)
With voice communication moving to the internet, phone calls will
become free within four to six years, eBay chief executive Meg Whitman
predicted during a conference call about the company's latest
financial quarter. Whitman made...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103381
MICROSOFT BOLSTERS EFFORT BY EUROPEAN SOFTWARE MAKERS (Networking
News)
Microsoft is throwing its weight behind significant new efforts to
promote innovation and technological know-how in Europe as the region
continues to lag behind economic gains made elsewhere in the world.
On...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103382
SBC COMMUNICATIONS 3Q PROFIT OFF 40 PCT. (Networking News)
SBC Communications Inc., one of the the nation's biggest
telecommunications companies, reported Thursday its fiscal
third-quarter profit slid 40 percent, as merger and hurricane-related
costs at Cingular Wireless offset a slight rise...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103383
MOTOROLA SUES EX-PRESIDENT OVER NEW JOB (Networking News)
Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 maker of mobile phones, has brought
suit against its former president, accusing him of breaching
noncompete agreements with the company by accepting the top job at
Nortel...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103384
CISCO SYSTEMS TO INVEST $1.1B IN INDIA (Networking News)
U.S.-based Cisco Systems Inc. will spend $1.1 billion (euro0.92
billion) in India over the next three years in the company's largest
investment outside the United States, its CEO said Wednesday. John
Chambers,...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103385
**** ITTOOLBOX JOB CENTER ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/FindJobs
Sr. Linux Systems Administrators Needed
DreamWorks Animation, SKG are seeking Sr. Linux Systems Administrators
who have at least 10 years of systems administration experience in a
large site and who are skilled in UNIX-based operating system,
including knowledge of kernel...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103386
Empower Analyst Needed
QuantumResources is seeking an Empower Analyst who is skilled in
effective planning, organization and time management skills and who
has the ability to work in a team environment. Description: Subject
matter expert and active participant...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=94664
Senior Data Network Engineer Needed
VNU, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Network Engineer who has at least
four years of related experience in infrastructure/network
environments and who is skilled in the areas of networks, network
topologies, PC workstations, Domain...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=86067
Clarify Application Administrator/Support Specialist Needed
Philips Medical Systems is seeking a Clarify Application
Administrator/Support Specialist who has at least 2 years experience
in a leadership or project management role and who is skilled in a
variety of voice and data...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=80443
**** TECHNOLOGY STOCK INDICES - WEEKLY PERFORMANCE ****
INDEX 10/17/05 10/24/05 %CHANGE
Web Design/Dev 39.07 41.41 +5.99% BEST
CRM 42.09 44.01 +4.56%
SCM 66.59 68.55 +2.94%
EAI 21.40 21.91 +2.38%
ERP 70.58 71.63 +1.49%
E-Business 54.13 54.91 +1.44%
Knowledge Mgmt 73.28 73.55 +0.37%
Networking 71.22 70.60 -0.87% WORST
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**** ITTOOLBOX BLOGS ****
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/
Sweet Anonymity
By SecurityMonkey
Happy Saturday everyone. I thought I would entertain you all with a
bit of troll-thumping. Normally I don't feed the trolls, but this
troll had some questions in a recent blog posting at blogspot.com...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103229
Identification reuse
By Don Krause
When planning your documentation strategy, remember to think long
term. I make an effort to allow my device identification numbers to be
permanently assigned to a resource and never be reused. This is...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103887
PING-REDUX
By Andrew Kramer
Hello everyone, my apologies for my hiatus, you know, day job and all.
Last we blogged, we talked about needing an intelligent ping tool.
Today, I will make the bold statement "Death to Ping." That's...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103888
Are IT professional university programs becoming more business
relevant?
By Joe Santana
Are the universities on the right track relative to providing their
students with the skills and knowledge they need to meet the needs of
IT professional positions in today and tomorrows job market?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103258
My Rose Colored Glasses: Realistic, Optimistic, and Proactive
By Matthew Moran
In my prior blog I commented on the underlying tone and position that
stereotypically places corporations as little more than robber-barons.
The belief and perception that corporations - and in fact...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103843
Lotus Domino Vs. Exchange and Microsoft's Tricks
By Sid Emory
Another battle with the Evil Empire! My company is in the market for a
new email system. We currently have Exchange 5.5 and need to migrate
soon. The most logical option is Exchange 2003. I think?...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103882
Outside influence - What do you do?
By ThunderMace2000
I want to answer some comments that have been left by various readers
and fellow posters here. I also want to say to I am not about
attacking the comment in anyway because you are providing the type
of...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103387
**** INDUSTRY ARTICLES ****
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ADVANCED CERTIFICATIONS: TAKING YOUR CAREER TO NEW HEIGHTS
by Patrick von Schlag
When you like what you do, it can be tempting to simply stay put. But
if you want to increase your job stability--and income--earning
advanced certifications and taking the next step forward in your
career can help.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103388
**** WHITE PAPERS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS FOR IT INCIDENTS INVESTIGATION
by George Jucan, MSc, PMP, OCP
Even IT shops with formal incident management processes still rely on
developers and/or support specialists to figure out based on
experience and personal expertise what went wrong with the system.
Executives and users are therefore entitled to ask: how do you know
this is indeed the cause of our problem? This article provides an
answer: formal root cause analysis employing proven techniques.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103389
ASSESSING COMPLIANCE TO THE PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY (PCI) SECURITY
STANDARD
by eEye Digital Security(R)
This paper is an in depth assessment of the Payment Card Industry
(PCI) Data Security Standard created by Mastercard International and
Visa as a baseline of accountability for organizations involved in
business transactions using their credit cards.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103390
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR IT ENVIRONMENT: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
by Michael Perkins
The purpose of this paper is to provide a primer on the auditor's
notion of internal control and to explain the relevance of that notion
to IT systems and processes. Moreover, this paper will provide a
high-level overview of control frameworks such as COSO and CobiT and
explain how such frameworks can be used as part of a SOX compliance
initiative.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103391
CORE ELEMENTS OF THE CISCO SELF-DEFENDING NETWORK STRATEGY
by Cisco Systems
This paper outlines the rational for the Cisco Self-Defending Network,
its foundation, and the incremental approaches Cisco Systems has
adopted to deliver these capabilities.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103392
STREAMLINING APPLICATION CONFIGURATION FOR THE ENTERPRISE
by IDC
This IDC study details how four organizations managed to significantly
reduce the time needed to package applications while eliminating the
costly side effects of deploying poorly tested packages to their
environment.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103393
AVOIDING COSTS FROM OVERSIZING DATA CENTER AND NETWORK ROOM
INFRASTRUCTURE
by APC
The physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network
rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. Statistics related to
oversizing are presented. The costs associated with oversizing are
quantified. The fundamental reasons why oversizing occurs are
discussed. An architecture and method for avoiding oversizing is
described.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103394
BUILDING A BACKUP STRATEGY FOR SMBS
by EMC Corporation
Designing a backup strategy can be difficult for SMBs with limited IT
resources. Review the challenges of protecting critical business data
on servers, desktops, and notebooks, and learn about designing a
reliable data protection strategy that is easy to implement and
maintain.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=91079
BEST PRACTICES IN CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR THE MID-SIZED BUSINESS
by BMC Software
This paper outlines best practices that mid-sized companies consider
when purchasing a change management solution. Find out why more and
more IT organizations are realizing why change management solutions
warrant their time and investment.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=86512
**** FAQS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/documents/
CMM 5 DOCUMENTATION
by ITtoolbox FAQ Team
Can anyone suggest some CMM 5 concept documentation?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103395
**** THIS WEEK'S FEATURED DISCUSSION GROUP - IBM-AIX-L ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/groups
POWER 4 (AIX 5.2) system networking issues
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103889
Crontab question
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103890
adding an inetd service?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103891
Where's the log of the network installation via NIM.\?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103892
How can i create filesystem log 'jfslog' for each lv ?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103893
**** BOOKS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/books/sbook.asp?s=4&p=4&h1=4
REAL PROCESS IMPROVEMENT USING THE CMMI
By Michael West
This book presents readers with non-academic, real-world approaches to
process improvement using the CMMI. The author provides concepts and
techniques for CMMI-based process improvement which are as effective
as they are innovative. Professionals at all...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/r/da.asp?r=103396
**** UPCOMING EVENTS ****
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/events
LISA '05
Date: December 4-9, 2005
Location: San Diego, CA
LISA '05 Offers the Latest in System Administration Training and
Cutting-Edge Practices Join us in San Diego, CA, December 4-9, 2005,
for the 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA
'05). LISA is the meeting place of choice for system, network,
database, storage, security, and all other computer-related
administrators. This year's program includes training every day by
industry experts such as Tina Darmohray, John Nicholson, Don Bailey,
Gerald Carter, and Richard Bejtlich; Keynote Address "Scaling Search
Beyond the Public Web" by Qi Lu of Yahoo! Inc,; New! Hit the Ground
Running Track; 2 tracks of invited talks by industry experts; refereed
papers; Guru Is In sessions; a vendor exhibition; and even more
networking opportunities. Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE.
Register by November 18 and save up to $300!
http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/it/
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/events
GARTNER 24TH ANNUAL DATA CENTER CONFERENCE
Date: December 5-8, 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Venue: Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
The Industry's Leading Data Center Event now 3.5 days!
Virtualization... ILM... business resiliency... operations
infrastructure efficiency... the escalating battle between Windows and
Linux. These are some of the hottest topics in data center management
right now - and will be headlining the agenda at the 24th Annual
Gartner Data Center Conference.
Last year's event was the best-attended themed event in Gartner
history as nearly 1400 data center professionals converged in Las
Vegas to hear the latest data center recommendations from the globally
renowned Gartner analyst team.
Every year, Gartner surveys data center executives to identify their
most critical concerns. Our 20 plus senior analyst team will craft an
up-to-the-minute agenda which will directly respond to your top
concerns.
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/events
4TH USENIX CONFERENCE ON FILE AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES (FAST '05)
Date: December 14-16, 2005
Location: San Francisco, CA
Venue: Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
Join us in San Francisco, CA, December 14-16, 2005, for the latest in
file and storage technologies. The 4th USENIX Conference on File and
Storage Technologies (FAST '05) brings together storage system
researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design,
implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Meet
with premier storage systems researchers and practitioners for 2.5
days of ground-breaking file and storage information!
http://networking.ittoolbox.com/events
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