College explains move to 802.11n; Review: Is Microsoft OCS your next IP PBX?

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection: Implementing an Effective Company-Wide Strategy Due to the growth of remote office and mobile computing, critical company data is widely distributed across enterprise networks, with no backup or disaster recovery plan in place. As such, the top remote office support issues companies face today are backup and restoration of data, disaster recovery, and compliance, according to the IT research firm IDC. Companies must be concerned with the cost of downtime, regulatory penalties for data loss, and customer confidence issues if data is compromised, corrupted or lost. Click here to read this whitepaper and learn more today! Network World Daily News: PM, 06/25/07 Breaking news DOJ, telecom reach settlement on cable competition A telecommunications carrier cannot enforce agreements with two cable television carriers that prevent them from offering competing voice services in parts of Pennsylvania, according to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice From the blogs and forums Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here Folks from Morrisville State College are online to answer your questions about how (and why) they're moving their campus to a draft-802.11n wireless network. Brad Reese wonders why Cisco network-design questions rarely get answered in technical forums. Jeff Doyle considers EIGRP vs. OSPF. Tyson Kopczynski explains how to grant access to a shared mailbox in Exchange 2007. Paul McNamara posts a video showing lawyers discussing how to avoid hiring Americans. Denise Donohue asks: What's the killer app for VoIP? Keith Shaw discusses why stand-alone GPS devices are doomed. Mark Gibbs asks whether you know what your kids are doing online. Greg Royal writes why Motorola could never have come up with the iPhone. One user says a 1-TB disk from Mempile is a good start toward new computing paradigms, but wonders when we get rid of keyboards. Users debate Cisco's "phase II" of telecom. Users consider the drawbacks of water-cooled data centers. Can you believe the secretary of defense doesn't do e-mail? Users - and Novell - discuss what Novell got out of Linux. Users also ponder Gartner's allegedly bad advice on iPhones. In depth Rise of the machines When Marvin Stone, CIO at New Century Title Insurance in San Diego, needed to improve the workflow for his company's residential refinance transaction process, he turned to automation software from Opalis, which enabled his staff to stop writing code and start putting their service-oriented architecture applications to use. Review Is Microsoft Office Communications Server your next IP PBX? When run in combination with the Office Communicator 2007 client and Exchange 2007 at the back end, Microsoft's new Office Communication Server 2007, aims to deliver a formidable voice communications platform. How to Ron Nutter explains to one user why he probably doesn't want to delete the loopback interface on one of his Cisco routers. More news HP has designs on IBM in software battle HP and IBM, both strong in many markets, set their sights on software as the category that will define their market leading positions. Palo Alto Networks launches next-generation firewall Next-generation firewall start-up Palo Alto Networks integrates a Layer 3 firewall with an intrusion-prevention system to screen applications and peer into SSL traffic. United Airlines works storage smarter, not harder Airline uses virtualization and SAN management tools to enable fewer staffers to manage more resources. A push to standards for network forensics Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a taxonomy and methodology for digital forensics that are poorly defined and confusing to computer security experts and law enforcement alike.

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