 Voices of NetworkingThis newsletter is sponsored by Alcatel-LucentVoices of Networking, 08/20/07By Jeff CarusoBradner: SCO Group: Mini-Me trying to be Darth Vader, 08/14/07: Sometime before March 2003 The SCO Group decided that making products that people might want to buy was passé and decided to get into the “business” of filing lawsuits instead. Their first target was IBM but they soon expanded their scope to take on ... Ness: Security's wake-up call: the unbearable lightness of virtualization, 08/16/07: Last February I talked about the impact of virtualization on static security solutions. I observed that virtualization introduces new potentials for flexibility and change over and beyond anything the world of network security has ever seen. ... Tolly: Big Iron is back, 08/14/07: Having come of age in the IT industry at the likely zenith of the mainframe at the start of the 1980s, I am always drawn to mainframe-oriented news. For the past 15 years, though, such stories have been of the kind in which the writer is somewhat ...
Backspin: Refurb and spam headaches, 08/16/07: What a couple of weeks it’s been! We’re having the kitchen refurbished so I have plumbers, builders and painters waltzing in and out interrupting me every five minutes. I’m keeping the aspirin close at hand and perhaps it is the added stress that is ... Johnson: Another CEO falls … and few hear, 08/15/07: It’s been just over two years since erstwhile WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison. And last month, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio was sentenced to six years for 19 counts of insider trading, to start immediately (he’s ... Kobielus: Complex event processing: still on the launch pad, 08/16/07: Complex event processing has a sleek, shiny, space-age allure. CEP has been blinking on the IT industry’s “next big thing” radar for quite a while, promising business agility through continuous correlation and visualization of multiple event-streams. Gearhead: Outlook to iCal but not automatically, 08/15/07: Is it too much to ask? All I want to do is to extract new calendar items from Outlook in iCal format every day at a set time. The reason for this is I am planning to buy a big, new Mac Pro (dual 3.0GHz quad core, dual graphics cards, 8GB RAM — yes, ... Dr. Internet: Syncing up Exchange calendar with iPhone, 08/15/07: I need help getting my Exchange calendar to sync up with my iPhone through my Macintosh using Entourage. I have Entourage on the Macintosh connected to my Exchange account, and everything is working except that calendar items I add to the iPhone do ... Cool Tools: Use USB to connect that monitor, 08/14/07: LG L206WU, by LG Electronics, looks like a standard widescreen, flat-panel monitor - until you notice it can connect to a computer via USB cable. Antonopolous: The cost of compliance, 08/14/07: Regulatory compliance is a form of asymmetric warfare. It will always be faster and cheaper for Congress to create new regulations than it is for businesses to comply with them. After all, the infamous Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is only a ... 'Net Buzz: 3 surveys say a lot .. most of it bad news, 08/13/07: A "State of the Net" survey released last week by Consumer Reports makes clear that Americans continue to have ample cause to distrust Internet interactions ... yet many remain woefully ignorant in terms of protecting themselves - and their children ... Nutter's Help Desk: Making sure you're not a source of spam, 08/13/07: I would like to be able to check if our mail IP is spamming or not. we are using Microsoft Exchange for mailing. I want to make sure that we aren't a source of spam to avoid situations that could cause problems with our sending e-mail. Guardians: NAC pros and cons, 08/13/07: Before I recommend a NAC implementation at my company, I'd like to know more about what NAC can and can't do. |
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