How MySpace is hurting your network; 10 automation companies to watch

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Nevis Networks Webcast: NAC in the Real World Experts guide you through the true state of network access control. Discover the one area tripping up the average enterprise when it comes to NAC deployments. Get expert recommendations on how you can get started and be successful with NAC. Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 06/26/07 How MySpace is hurting your network, 06/22/07: Increasingly popular social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace. 10 automation companies to watch, 06/25/07: Here we look at 10 companies delivering various automation technologies designed to help IT managers get a step closer toward fully automated IT operations. Newsletter: Network management for the masses, 06/25/07: When it comes to network management, cost used to be black and white, or I should say, outrageously expensive or free. Ease Application Performance Headaches Four real-world case studies show you how network IT executives are improving performance in Network World's latest Executive Guide, "Perfecting App Performance Management." Also, discover tips, trends and expert advice on how you can take advantage of new technologies to stay ahead of performance problems. Click here to find out more. Quest pays $90 million cash for ScriptLogic, 06/22/07: Quest plans to use desktop, server and directory management tools to bolster its offerings to small and midsize companies. Spiceworks adds troubleshooting to its free net mgmt. tool, 06/22/07: Spiceworks adds remote-access and antivirus capabilities to enhance the troubleshooting features of its free network management software. 'How to cheat H-1B' video stokes immigration fires, 06/21/07: A "how to cheat H-1B" video by a law firm stokes debate over immigration policies both in Congress and online. How to groom your company’s next CIO, 06/20/07: It is less important for CIOs of the future to run the day-to-day management of the IT infrastructure, as that role can be delegated to CTOs or to third- ... Using NetFlow to protect your net, 06/20/07: It’s no secret that I have been waiting with bated breath for network management and security technologies to converge and deliver the nirvana of efficient, risk ... Six facts to help you fend off the bots, 06/20/07: A slideshow of that shows activity of bots, fight-back efforts like Bot Roast and X-Force threat levels and methods that bots burrow in.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. How MySpace is hurting your network 2. Lawyers show how to side-step immigration law 3. Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone 4. Cisco moves reputation services into network devices 5. 10 automation companies to watch 6. NY college plans 11n WLAN rollout this summer 7. Pentagon shuts down systems after cyberattack 8. Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps 9. Why time stands still on the iPhone 10. The case of the 500-mile e-mail MOST E-MAILED STORY: Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone

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