All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Avnet IDC Whitepaper: Storage Encryption: Implementing the Linchpin of Data Security Encrypting Data in transit is a start, but encrypting data in storage is widely recognized as the next frontier in security. Find out how you can mitigate financial risk, prevent identity theft, block internal leaks and more, while keeping your vital information accessible and manageable. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 06/26/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: New Gearhead and some feedback First, an announcement: As of next week, Gearhead will become a purely online column: Same great bits, same great bytes, no dead trees. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Manage Skyrocketing Storage The data on your network is growing at a rapid pace thats only going to increase. Download Network Worlds 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. Backspin: Nachruf for DRM About 20 years ago I went to the Proms, a yearly event at Albert Hall in London where a fairly eclectic selection of music (mainly classical) is performed. That year there was the world premiere of a piece of amazing music I now know is called "Nachruf for Strings" by a Norwegian composer ("nachruf", I am told, means "obituary" in Norwegian). To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days the day dell refused to sell a computer THIS from The Ubuntu Forums; a story of a business customer who could not buy a Dell with Ubuntu. They were told these were for personal use, not business use. Weird... Reader Feedback on "What My Parents Don't Know" I just received the following feedback from a reader regarding this week's Backspin, What My Parents Don't Know. It should be a warning for every parent about the risks of unfettered Internet access... The Wretched MPAA Again Choose to Be Ridiculous From Dave Malki!'s recent Wondermark newsletter: ... it seems that the Motion Picture Association of America -- that body that assigns movie ratings and clears movie advertising for content (hence green-band and red-band trailers) -- has instituted a new, yellow-band rating specifically for Internet trailers. The idea is that yellow-band trailers are kinda racy or violent, but not quite "adults-only" -- in the MPAA's view, older teens can be allowed to see yellow-band trailers, but nobody younger. The obvious problem is, how do you enforce that? And the answer is, you don't. Business Adoption of Windows Vista Quote by Russ Cooper, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, 18 June 2007: My bet is that we're waiting for either licensing changes from Microsoft over Select customers, or some new killer application that is only available on Vista (and which has no existing Windows XP customers). The licensing changes are extremely unlikely, given the back-peddling Microsoft has already done with OEMs. So can you imagine a killer business application that won't be made available for Windows XP users? Neither can I.

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Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Avnet IDC Whitepaper: Storage Encryption: Implementing the Linchpin of Data Security Encrypting Data in transit is a start, but encrypting data in storage is widely recognized as the next frontier in security. Find out how you can mitigate financial risk, prevent identity theft, block internal leaks and more, while keeping your vital information accessible and manageable. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007