Fighting back against software-agent overload; Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Emerson Network Power Smart power and cooling management Power consumption and costs continue to rise at nearly all data centers. Discover how your IT shop can not only reduce operational expenses at your data center, but also improve reliability with power management and cooling system controls. Click here to download this whitepaper. Network World Daily News: PM, 07/31/07 Fighting back against software-agent overload Software agents — long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices — have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments. EU to name carriers not offering cheap roaming The deadline for European cell phone carriers to offer a new mobile phone roaming tariff passed on Monday evening with the European Commission saying it plans to name carriers not offering customers the rates. Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks. Get Up to Speed on the Latest in WLANs Easily stay on top of the latest developments and issues in WLAN technology, standards, security, telephony, management and more with Network World's latest Executive Guide, "Keeping Up With the Wireless Whirlwind." Click here to download! Verizon Wireless to acquire Rural Cellular Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular, a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the United States, the companies announced Monday. ICANN seeks to better protect domain-name registrants The Internet regulation body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is asking for the public's input as it revises its accreditation process for registrars, the companies that register and sell domain names. Utility evades Vista kernel defenses A security feature in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista can be easily circumvented with a free utility that loads unsigned drivers into the kernel, according to researchers at Symantec. Nortel and partners jump start U.K. mobile WiMAX Nortel Networks and two U.K. companies will test mobile WiMAX, a wireless data transfer technology that will compete with Wi-Fi and 3G networks. Symantec's 'Dark Vision' mines carder sites Researchers at Symantec have developed a system that mines underground Web sites and chat rooms for sensitive information that is being sold.

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Contact the author: Questions? Feedback? Contact NetworkWorld.com Site Editor Jeff Caruso. This newsletter is sponsored by Emerson Network Power Smart power and cooling management Power consumption and costs continue to rise at nearly all data centers. Discover how your IT shop can not only reduce operational expenses at your data center, but also improve reliability with power management and cooling system controls. Click here to download this whitepaper. 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

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ITtoolbox Networking-Jobs: 3 New Opportunities Available

Networking-Jobs Alert The most recent Networking jobs posted to the ITtoolbox Job Center. July 31, 2007 New Job Postings Websphere Administrator Needed Resolvit Resources Cincinnati, Ohio 7/31/2007 9:36:40 AM RESOLVIT RESOURCES is seeking a Websphere Administrator who has extensive Experience in IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Portal, JBoss, Apache or related products. RESOLVIT RESOURCES Information technology is just a part of IT HERE'S WHAT WE... Distributed Platforms Manager Needed United Airlines Chicago, IL 7/31/2007 9:20:49 AM United Airlines is seeking a Distributed Platforms Manager who has at least 5 Years progressive experience in a management role working for a large corporate environment. career ladder: ours soars to 35,000 feet Step up.... Senior UNIX Systems Administrator Needed Tower Research Capital New York, NY 7/30/2007 5:31:12 PM Tower Research Capital, an automated, quantitative hedge fund, is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Senior UNIX Systems Administrator who will help support the needs of a growing number of data centers and employees. Several... View All ITtoolbox Job Postings Related Jobs (North American candidates only) Customer System Engr Networking/Storage Memories (Dice) Software Architect - Market Making (Dice) Sr. Business Analyst (Dice) Software Engineer (Dice) ITtoolbox Featured Content Instant Messaging, VoIP, P2P, and games in the workplace: How to take back control Employees installing and using unauthorized applications like Instant Messaging, VoIP, games and peer-to-peer file-sharing applications cause many businesses serious concern. This paper looks at why it is important to control such applications, discusses the various approaches, and highlights how integrating this functionality into malware protection is the simplest and most cost-effective solution. Read this free white paper. Manage ITtoolbox Subscriptions | Leave Alert | View All Alerts | Advertising Information Post an IT Job | Post your Resume | Recommend this Alert | Additional Questions Knowledge Bases: Baan - Business Intelligence - C Languages - CIO - CRM - Data Warehouse Database - EAI - Emerging Technologies - ERP - Hardware - Java - Knowledge Management Linux - Networking - Oracle - PeopleSoft - Project Management - SAP - SCM - Security - Siebel Storage - UNIX - Visual Basic - Web Design - Windows - Wireless Also at ITtoolbox: Blogs - Groups - Wiki - Events & Webcasts - Job Center - Research

Change management trips over skills gap; Emerging management challengers

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Technologies Improve app performance globally Find out how Nike made the decision to go with a managed Web application service provider to improve performance on one of its key retail applications. After deciding a distributed datacenter was too costly, Nike went with Akamai. Its once sluggish app is now chugging along. Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 07/31/07 Change management trips over skills gap, 07/25/07: CIOs and IT managers in the U.K. believe skills gaps in the IT department are hampering businesses' change management programs, research has revealed. Emerging management challengers: What do you think?, 07/25/07: For many years now, I have been writing about the big four management software makers and how every move they make could impact the overall network and systems management market - redefining how IT executives manage, automate and optimize their environments. Opalis keeps eye on New Century's systems: New Century Title Insurance company relies on data from multiple sources to keep its customers and agents informed. To make sure critical systems and feeds stay up, the company uses monitoring and remediation tools from Opalis. Marvin Stone, vice president and CIO at New Century, explains what Opalis' tools does and how the company uses them on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (6:59) Network World's Network Infrastructure Buyer's Guide Find the right infrastructure products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information in over 20 specific network gear market segments will help you quickly pinpoint what you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go the Buyer's Guide now. Podcast: Baseball Hall of Fame slow to induct digital video, 07/26/07: Baseball Hall of FameThe National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has over 10,000 hours of audio recordings and video footage in many different native formats, but has not yet jumped on the digital video merry-go-ground. Benjamin Harry, media archivist and recording manager for the Hall of Fame, talks with Network World's Jason Meserve about the hesitation to go digital and the challenges of preserving analog media for future generations of baseball fans. (16:04) Video: A dirty job for IT: Keith test-drives a USB device with file detection software that aims to find objectionable content stored on a PC notebook.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

Contact the author: Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management for Network World. This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Technologies Improve app performance globally Find out how Nike made the decision to go with a managed Web application service provider to improve performance on one of its key retail applications. After deciding a distributed datacenter was too costly, Nike went with Akamai. Its once sluggish app is now chugging along. 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

Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware; Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine

IT Market Watch News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's IT Market Watch News Alert, 07/31/07 Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware, 07/27/07: Cisco plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine, 07/27/07: A judge ordered the former chief executive of Qwest Communications International to pay $52 million and spend six years in prison for insider trading. Microsoft buys AdECN: Microsoft Subnet reports on Microsoft’s latest acquisition. AdECN is an exchange where advertising networks can conduct real-time auctions for buying and selling ad space. New Executive Guide Network World has recently published an executive guide entitled "Virtualization Meets Reality". Find out the 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center. Download it now! Sun swings to black in fourth quarter, 07/30/07: Sun Monday reported it had swung to a fourth quarter profit compared to a loss last year on essentially flat revenues. Intel accused of breaching European antitrust rules, 07/27/07: The European Commission has accused Intel of abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market to exclude its rival Advanced Micro Devices, in breach of European antitrust rules. Google, Sprint team on WiMAX mobile services, 07/26/07: As part of its strategy to increase its presence in as many Web-enabled mobile devices as possible, Google has agreed to collaborate with Sprint Nextel to offer a range of Internet services to users of the U.S. operator's planned new WiMAX network. Acquisitions show wireless LAN industry keeps innovating, 07/27/07: Wireless LAN vendors acquiring security and VoIP technologies as they lay groundwork for next wave of WLAN innovation. Strong wireless sales, including iPhone, boost AT&T earnings, 07/24/07: Profit and sales jumped in the second quarter at AT&T as the U.S. communications giant signed up more wireless customers, including new iPhone users, and sold more Internet services to enterprises. Grid pays handsome dividends for HR firm, 07/25/07: The mainframe is alive and well at the global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates, but it’s getting quite a bit of help these days from a Linux-based grid computing platform.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

Contact the author: Contact Network World Site Editor Jeff Caruso This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! 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

Trends in mobile messaging

Unified Communications This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Unified Communications Newsletter, 07/31/07 Trends in mobile messaging By Michael Osterman We have just completed a major survey of mobile messaging in midsized and large organizations. Here’s some of what we found: * 15% of the corporate workforce in midsized and large organizations in North America uses employer-supplied mobile devices. However, decision-makers anticipate that they’ll see in excess of 40% growth in the number of employees using these devices in 2008 and more than 30% growth in 2009. * In terms of the devices supported by IT, BlackBerry devices clearly dominate, although Windows Mobile device support will be increasing over the next 12 months. Symbian support is also increasing, while Palm support will drop very slightly. Network World Security Buyer's Guide Find the right security products for your enterprise - fast. From anti-spam to wireless LAN security, our Buyer's Guides have detailed information on hundreds of products in more than 20 categories. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features to make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Security Buyer's Guide now. * The integration of presence into mobile devices will increase significantly over the next 12 months: while only 19% of organizations today report that presence integration with mobile devices is a priority or very high priority today, that figure will more than double a year from now. * What devices are users asking for? We asked messaging decision makers “On a scale of 1 to 5, how much demand is there among your mobile users for the following devices, where 1 is ‘no demand at all’ and 5 is ‘users are clamoring for this device’”? We found that BlackBerry devices are being sought significantly more than any other device, although significant proportions of users are also asking for Windows Mobile devices. Interestingly, of the four mobile devices we asked about (BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm Treo and Apple iPhone), the iPhone was last on the list. Clearly, mobile messaging will have a major impact on corporate decision-making over the next 24 months, particularly in the context of archiving content, the security of the devices and the data they contain and the use of external services employed to manage mobile devices.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

Contact the author: For webinars or research on messaging, or to join the Osterman Research market research survey panel, go here. Osterman Research helps organizations understand the markets for messaging and directory related offerings. To e-mail Michael, click here. This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! ARCHIVE Archive of the Unified Communications Newsletter. 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

Cisco's road to software

LANs & Routers This newsletter is sponsored by EMC Align Business with IT Discover the steps required to automate the management of IT environments to effectively respond to changing business demands. Click here to download this whitepaper today! Network World's LANs & Routers Newsletter, 07/31/07 Cisco's road to software By Jeff Caruso Have you heard? Cisco is becoming a software company. But not in the way it seemed last year. That's right - networking's largest hardware company sees its future in software. My colleague Jim Duffy was at last week's Cisco Networkers conference in Anaheim, Calif., and reported on CEO John Chambers' assertion that "we have to become a software company." We all knew that Cisco was headed in that direction, but I don't think we heard Cisco make this admission so boldly. Get Up to Speed on the Latest in WLANs Easily stay on top of the latest developments and issues in WLAN technology, standards, security, telephony, management and more with Network World's latest Executive Guide, "Keeping Up With the Wireless Whirlwind." Click here to download! Last year the company was talking about how it was going to sell its router and switch operating system, IOS, differently. The idea was that the software would be more modular and more independent from the hardware it runs on. Chambers scaled back that idea last week, according to Jim's article. He said the company is not breaking IOS into pieces - instead, Cisco is really just looking at having software sales less tightly coupled with hardware. Not exactly huge news. Chambers focused more on the company's WebEx acquisition, the massive $3.2 billion maneuver that put Cisco at direct odds with the 800-pound gorilla in software, Microsoft. (On a related note, Cisco's marketing of WebEx has been getting on some customers' nerves, so maybe Cisco is trying a little too hard here.) It was pretty self-evident at the time that buying WebEx meant a new direction for Cisco, and of course that's not the end, but rather just the beginning. This is the bigger story, and one that I'm not quite sure most people understand yet. Cisco can say it is becoming a software company all it wants, but what kind of software company will it be? Editor's Note: Starting Aug. 14, this newsletter will be renamed "Network Architecture" to better reflect the focus of the newsletter. We thank you for reading Network World newsletters!   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

Contact the author: Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him at jcaruso@nww.com This newsletter is sponsored by EMC Align Business with IT Discover the steps required to automate the management of IT environments to effectively respond to changing business demands. Click here to download this whitepaper today! ARCHIVE Archive of the LANs & Routers Newsletter. 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

All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 07/31/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Virtual CD Drives, TIFFs and PDFs Following up on the recent Gearhead column about Virtual CD, reader Dale Wisler wrote that he needed the software “only occasionally to convert some copyright-protected Windows Media files to MP3. [Windows Media Player] allows me to burn to CD or to MP3, but it thinks my Sony MP3 player is an external storage drive (I have to use Sony’s software to copy songs).” To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Network World VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will quickly help you pinpoint the hardware or software you need to build out a converged voice and data network. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. Backspin: IT: red in tooth and claw Most of us have a list of things that we’d like to do before we shuffle off this mortal coil. Some people’s lists include such things as base jumping naked off the Empire State Building or hiking across the Hindu Kush in the dead of winter in nothing more than Speedos and flip-flops. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Ubuntu Live Conference News The first Ubuntu Live Conference is now history, and there were some pretty interesting announcements. The folks at O'Reilly have wrapped this up wonderfully, so I'll let them tell you about it. Click HERE. Now THIS is a flamewar Associated Press reports: ELM MOTT, Texas --A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson. As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states' borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business. When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy's trailer down. Remember Magic Lantern? In brightest day, in blackest night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power, Green Lantern's light! No, not that one. No power rings here. Magic Lantern was the keylogger created by the FBI to gather information on bad guys. The successful use and deployment of what could only be called spyware hinged upon the cooperation of spyware detection companies, the OS software company, or the exploitation of unpatched (and presumed unpatchable) flaws in both. Cell Phones Make Me Sick That's what some folks claim anyway. These people suffer from IEI-EMF, idiopathic environmental intolerance with attribution to electromagnetic fields. Now comes a study titled Does Short-Term Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Station Signals Increase Symptoms in Individuals who Report Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields? A Double-Blind Randomised Provocation Study (whew)...

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

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 This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! 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

Cisco pushing virtualization, automation; Data Center Doctors

Data Center News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Server Technology, Inc High Density Modular 3-Phase Power Distribution Server Technology's new Modular Power Distribution Unit family is designed to take a 3-Phase in-feed and distribute single phase 208 V power via Basic CDU's that can be placed anywhere in the cabinet. Each Basic unit has an associated LED meter for simple load balancing. The Master unit contains the LED meters, one temperature/humidity probe input, serial connection and exclusive link port to connect an expansion unit for linking units on different power circuits together. Network World's Data Center News Alert, 07/31/07 Cisco pushing virtualization, automation, 07/30/07: Cisco last week unveiled its next-generation data center strategy along with a key product to support that vision at its annual Networkers conference. Cool data centers: Data center blogger Doug Alger warns that cabinets in the data center may be fuller than they appear; plus see Doug's photo of Cisco's build a foam data center competition at Networkers. Data Center Doctors, 07/29/07: Network World Fusion's exclusive weekly data center how-to column. Network World Buyer's Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guides now. Microsoft breaks ground on San Antonio data center, 07/30/07: Microsoft is relying on green technologies in its newest data centers, including one in San Antonio where it is breaking ground on Monday. (Check out what the Microsoft bloggers are saying on this topic.) Opalis keeps eye on New Century's systems: New Century Title Insurance company relies on data from multiple sources to keep its customers and agents informed. To make sure critical systems and feeds stay up, the company uses monitoring and remediation tools from Opalis. Marvin Stone, vice president and CIO at New Century, explains what Opalis' tools does and how the company uses them on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (6:59) HP adds thermal mapping to energy-saving services, 07/25/07: HP Wednesday announced it had added thermal mapping capabilities to its data center assessment services that show customers how they can potentially save between 10% and 45% on energy costs by using cooling systems more efficiently and optimizing data center design. Firm uses virtualization, quake tech to boost business, 07/26/07: First American Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif., is relying on data center virtualization technologies to provide quick disaster recovery in the event of an earthquake. Biodiesel fuels build of Microsoft data center, 07/25/07: Hydroelectric power isn't the only green energy driving Microsoft's new data centers in eastern Washington.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Online gamers’ dirty little secrets exposed 2. IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life 3. Video games televised as a sport? 4. NAC alternatives hit the mark 5. Hogwarts IT director quits 6. Akonix: IM attacks up nearly 80% 7. Cisco Networkers extravaganza highlights 8. Top 15 'networkiest' moments of The Simpsons 9. Industry giants get 'Simpsonized' 10. Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine MOST-READ REVIEW: NAC alternatives hit the mark

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