All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by ProCurve Networking by HP Affordable, reliable network switches Find the right switch to meet your business needs. Check out this site, created by ProCurve Networking by HP, to learn about the latest LAN, WAN and wireless LAN products available. Learn which switches are supporting the latest standards and read real-world case studies. Click here for more details. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 09/04/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Feedback: CD cataloging and Outlook to iCal This week I have a lot of reader feedback to deal with. First up is a recommendation from longtime reader Gar Nelson regarding my recent quest for a program that would catalog and manage my collection of data CDs. 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: Waxing philosophical about failure modes A couple of weeks ago Mich Kabay wrote about an article in the Wall Street Journal that discussed, albeit in a lame, noob kind of way, techniques for employees “to get around the IT departments.” To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days This week in Gearhead: Readers on CD cataloging and Outlook to iCalReaders have their say. What about you?

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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 This newsletter is sponsored by ProCurve Networking by HP Affordable, reliable network switches Find the right switch to meet your business needs. Check out this site, created by ProCurve Networking by HP, to learn about the latest LAN, WAN and wireless LAN products available. Learn which switches are supporting the latest standards and read real-world case studies. Click here for more details. 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