Foundry readies monster Ethernet switch; IBM ISS announces speediest IPS model

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Nokia Make the most of your mobile gear Download our Free Executive Guide and learn how Network IT professionals are getting the most out of their mobile devices and improving mobile security. You'll also get the scoop on upcoming mobile tools and technologies and how they may impact your enterprise. Network World Daily News: PM, 05/21/07 Breaking news Foundry readies monster Ethernet switch At Interop this week, products from Foundry and Nortel are expected to take their shots at Cisco, F5 and others in the WAN routing, application acceleration, and data center switching arenas while Avaya and 3Com will launch gear designed to bolster ... IBM ISS announces its speediest IPS model IBM’s Internet Security System division has announced its highest-speed intrusion-prevention system, with a top throughput of 15Gbps. Manage Skyrocketing Storage The data on your network is growing at a rapid pace that's only going to increase. Download Network World's latest Executive Guide and get the practical, real-world advice and insider information you need to best manage and meet your storage demands and industry regulations. Click here to download. Complete Interop coverage We've sent a team of reporters and editors to Las Vegas this week to cover the show. Get the latest news and read up on the experimental InteropLabs network. In depth New Data Center: The new style of storage As enterprises evolve their next-generation IT infrastructures, storage is taking on new style. Discoverability and recoverability are guiding principles. Optimization and virtualization are critical goals. The tools and technologies for enabling all are getting jazzier all the time, and today’s storage networks and systems are becoming faster, smarter and better than ever at keeping data accessible yet safe and in compliance with corporate policy and regulatory rules. In this, the third in our six-part New Data Center series, we explore these and other of the splashiest storage trends and technologies. SAN management: a new view IT professionals responsible for managing storage-area networks face a daunting challenge. Storage today is an integral element in the interconnected IT-service delivery chain, and applications are spread across multiple arrays, switches and servers, often from different vendors. In such heterogeneous environments, the old device-centric approach to SAN management is limited. More comprehensive, vendor-neutral tools are needed that complement traditional storage resource management (SRM) tools. From the blogs and forums We've just added a new feature to NetworkWorld.com Community: Groups. Our groups are similar to Google and Yahoo groups (only way networkier, of course). They're a way to bring together folks with a particular common interest. You can let anybody with a Network World Community account join your group or limit members to specific people. Member posts appear both in a Web archive and are sent out via e-mail. When Cisco routers got blamed for an outage in Japan, users rose to the company's defense, saying it had to be misconfiguration of those routers, not the routers themselves, that was to blame. A story on Argonne National Laboratory ditching VoIP phones has some NetworkWorld.com users wondering if the lab could have avoided its problems. Discuss challenges for Cisco. A discussion on IT jargon has turned into a debate between whippersnappers and codgers (also see: Why young people aren't going into IT). One user ponders the re-vestiture of AT&T. Other users debate REAL ID. Greg Royal explains how Nortel needs to start building communities of vested interest. Essential SharePoint discusses what every SharePoint developer should know. Paul McNamara battles it out with supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul At issue: Online polls. Brad Reese asks: Why go for multiple CCIE tracks? James Gaskin reports from the ITEC show in Houston. Mark Gibbs gets into it on the topic of "Winrot," or all that kruft that slows Windows PCs. How to Ron Nutter helps a user figure out the best way to power VoIP phones. More news Microsoft backs adding ODF to ANSI standards Days after declaring its intention to aggressively collect patent royalties from open-source distributors, Microsoft backed adding ODF, the document file format used widely in open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office, to a list of business standards. Google mulls tighter link between Gmail and Docs Brains are working overtime at Google to explore ways of further integrating its e-mail and instant messaging services with its hosted productivity applications. Web-redirection software debut reignites controversy Is the Internet ready for Web redirection? Data breaches plague U.S. companies For many companies, the question is not will they experience a data breach, it's when and how often, according to survey results released this week.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. IT jargon you just love to hate 3. A cynic rips open source 3. Cisco routers cause major outage in Japan 4. Alltel agrees to $27.5B buyout 5. Top 15 controversial Microsoft quotes 6. Foundry readies monster Ethernet switch 7. Microsoft won't sue over Linux - yet 8. DoD software protection comes to commercial sector 9. Why Argonne has pulled the plug on VoIP 10. Wireless vendors target enterprise nets with 802.11n products MOST E-MAILED STORY: Cisco routers cause major outage in Japan

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