Management, security challenges threaten virtualization's success; Advanced net analysis

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by D-Link D-Link Unified Switching Improves Network Efficiency As businesses scale, blending traditional wireless and wired networks become a challenge. D-Link's xStack 3200 series incorporate effortless wireless switching and advanced wired functionality for a TOTAL unified network solution. Discover how D-Link can help take your network to the next level. Download your copy of "Unified Wireless Switching" to learn more. Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 05/24/07 Management, security challenges threaten virtualization's success, 05/23/07:  Successful implementations of virtualization in enterprise production networks depend less upon virtual server vendors and more upon management and security technology providers adapting their products to the new paradigm virtual environments represent, according to sessions this week at Interop. Click here for more. Advanced net analysis wares on tap at Interop, 05/22/07:  Network professionals attending Interop this week will get a look at a slew of products designed to take network troubleshooting to the next level as network management vendors pump up wares with advanced application, voice and virtualization analysis. Click here for more. EMC promises common management platform, 05/23/07:  EMC says that by year's end it will begin delivering "a common platform" for managing the company's myriad storage lines, an advance long desired by customers weary of juggling multiple interfaces. Click here for more. Network Pros' Favorite Freeware Tools Get your copy of Network World's latest Executive Guide "Management's Many Faces" and see which free management tools are rated tops by your peers. Also, find case studies and expert information on the technology and techniques network IT executives are using to address today's management challenges. Click Here to download! Network/Systems Management Newsletter: Interop 2007 Edition, Part 2, 05/23/07:  This week's newsletters are focused on (one of) my annual treks to Las Vegas to gather more information about the networking industry in a few days than many people (probably not readers of this newsletter) learn in a lifetime. It's my way of letting you in on some of the news at the show, and your way of virtually following me out to Vegas if you were unable to make the trip. Click here for more. WAN optimization, VoIP and MPLS top IT managers' plans, 05/23/07:  WAN optimization, VoIP and MPLS are among the technologies most of interest to IT executives attending Interop this week, according to a survey conducted on the show floor. Click here for more. CSOs lasting longer, but still out after three years, 05/23/07:  The lifespan of corporate CSOs is increasing, with the average stay about 36 months, up from 24 months just a few years ago, attendees of CSO Bootcamp at Interop Las Vegas were told this week. Click here for more. Podcast: Building the new enterprise desktop:  How do you evolve your company's desktops from an "old" model of legacy, separate applications into a "new" model of integrated, Web-enabled, dynamic applications? Keith Shaw talks with OpenSpan CEO Francis Carden about the evolution of the new enterprise desktop, how IT and business groups can work together in driving this integration, and the steps to take towards this integration (15:10). Listen now.

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