Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Your weekly connection to the new and most popular entries from the Networking community.
**** CONTENTS ****
Groups: Windows file server slow sometimes (+9)
White Papers: BI on the Move: Cognos Go! Mobile (+4)
Documents: Preparing for an IT Security Career (+1)
Blogs: Save your company some money! (+9)
Wiki: Resilient packet ring (+5)
Jobs: ANSS - Remedy Application Analyst Needed (+5)
Events: Women and Technology Summit (+2)
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Learn to defend your systems
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http://www.ITtoolbox.com/erd/15946
**** SPONSOR MESSAGE: DATALINK ****
Calculate ROI for a Tape Consolidation Project
Discover 5 key steps to calculating ROI for a tape consolidation project, including areas such as hardware maintenance savings, off-site media savings, staff productivity savings, etc. Learn More.
http://www.ITtoolbox.com/erd/15940
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Air Conditioning For a Computer Room
Every Information Technology professional who is responsible for the operation of computing equipment needs to understand the function of air conditioning in the data center or network room. Find out the basic operating principles and major components of precision cooling systems from an IT perspective. Click here.
http://www.ITtoolbox.com/erd/15942
**** DOER GROUPS ****
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Most Popular Thread
WINDOWS FILE SERVER SLOW SOMETIMES
By lnarachi, member since 5/4/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
We have a windows fileserver running 2003 Server(latest) and I have an interesting issue. Sometimes file transfers take a LONG time. Sometimes they are fast as expected. We have an all Cisco switched environment and some VLAN routing at our core switch.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598268
Recent Threads
INTERNAL DNS DOESN'T RESOLVE
By westview1, member since 3/20/2004, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598270
BOARD DRIVER
By chris sunday, member since 2/27/2006, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598271
ABOUT VLAN WITH IP SUBNET
By shahnawaz_cisco2k3, member since 11/18/2006, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598272
BANDWIDTH PROBLEM
By SAFARI, member since 9/21/2007, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598274
NEW DOMAIN
By bhushanvs15, member since 12/16/2006, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598275
CISCO 11500 CSS + LOAD BALANCING
By krishsil, member since 9/20/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598277
NEWBIE CISCO AND NORTEL QUESTION
By Nick, member since 9/23/2007, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598279
NORTEL BAYSTACK 5520 AND CISCO CONNECTION
By Nick, member since 9/23/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598280
CLINET / SERVER
By REKSA, member since 9/23/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598282
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WIKI TOP CONTRIBUTOR: AKSHAYA BHATIA
Created: File eXchange ProtocolContents: "File eXchange Protocol (FXP) is a specialized FTP protocol which facilitates to transfer data from server to server..."...Continued at ITtoolbox Wiki.Become a top contributor as you share and learn with the community at ITtoolbox Wiki.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/523146
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**** DOER WHITE PAPERS ****
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Recent White Papers
BI ON THE MOVE: COGNOS GO! MOBILE (Podcast)
By Cognos
Allowing business users anywhere, anytime access to the information they need is helping organizations become more agile and competitive. Learn how to get business intelligence into the hands of your business users, anywhere they go with Cognos Go! Mobile.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/531168
5 KEY STEPS TO CALCULATING ROI FOR A TAPE LIBRARY CONSOLIDATION PROJECT
By Phil Wandrei, Datalink
This paper examines how to calculate ROI for a tape consolidation project, including areas such as hardware maintenance savings, off-site media savings, staff productivity savings, etc. Read about key areas that generate savings in a tape library consolidation project and examine the steps for...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/575152
MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS - THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN COMPUTING
By AMD
The exponential growth of digital data is leading businesses to seek greater processor performance and efficiency. Read AMD's whitepaper on how multi-core processors represent a major evolution in addressing this problem.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598187
ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE IM USAGE POLICY
By Symantec Corporation
This white paper provides a best practices overview for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM. Download this white paper today and learn more about security and legal risks associated with IM usage and how to overcome them...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/535381
BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE AROUND APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
By Marathon Technologies
With a very stagnant availability market over the past ten years or so, businesses have had few viable options for enabling the varying degrees of availability they require. Marathon's everRun defines a new standard in automated application availability, using patented virtualization technology, everRun provides...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/520109
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**** DOER POPULAR Q&A ****
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Most Popular New Popular Q&A
PREPARING FOR AN IT SECURITY CAREER
By ITtoolbox as adapted from Security-Career discussion
What certifications are required to enter the IT Security field? How important is a university education? I'm considering going back to school, but don't want to go through it if I can just obtain security certifications through outside courses.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598285
Recent Popular Q&A
PAUSE ERRORS WITH A GIGABIT INTERFACE
By ITtoolbox as adapted from cisco-infrastructure-L discussion group
I am facing Pause output erors on a Cisco 2821 Series router on a Gigabit interface. The Gigabit interface is configured with 100/Full speed.I have tried changing port at other end, and also changing the cable, but I still get the Pause Errors...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598287
**** DOER BLOGS ****
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Most Popular New Blog Entry
SAVE YOUR COMPANY SOME MONEY!
By Locutus
I think this is another topic that causes strong reactions on both sides. The progressive people will shout "Yeah! You tell'em Locutus!" While the regressive people will come out with statements like "Companies won't change." or "It will cost too much."
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598188
Recent Blog Entries
HOW I AM USING GOOGLE CALENDAR
By Matthew Moran
I recent posted a piece on how I use Google Calendar and SMS over on my personal blog...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598289
SALES CALL RESULTS PLUS
By Matthew Moran
I have been asked by other consultants and professionals I work with how I end up with clients all in one geographic location and how I have, for the most part, generated a decent consulting income year after year without much drive time...The answer...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598240
SALES CALL TUESDAY
By Matthew Moran
Working on bringing in work more to my liking… Mostly, Office Automation work using MS Office and other productivity tools. For me, it is fairly quick hit, high-value work - other technology work (support, networking, wireless), I've got some help on.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598241
TOWARDS A BSD-LICENSED COMPILER
By Dru
Last week Hubert Feyrer blogged about experiments using PCC to compile the NetBSD userland. PCC is interesting for several reasons: it's blazingly fast (always nice in a compiler) and its BSD-licensed (the GPL-licensed gcc has always been seen as a thorn in...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598290
UNBUNDLING WINDOWS?
By Octavius
The Globalisation Institute today published a policy briefing that calls on the EU to require all PC's to be sold without Operating Systems. Entitled Unbundling Microsoft Windows, it suggests that forcing consumers and businesses to buy their OS's separately would be good for...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598291
SALARY, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL COST OF HAGGLING
By Dru
There's some insightful quotes in this Washington Post article, beginning with the introductory story: All their male counterparts in the university's PhD program were teaching courses on their own, whereas the women were working only as teaching assistants. That mattered, because doctoral students...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598293
OPEN LOGIC EXCHANGE
By Dru
OpenLogic is launching OLEX this month and it looks to be a promising resource for enterprise open source. You'll have to register to download the resources, but the open source policy builder under Create an Open Source Policy contains 28 questions businesses should be...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598294
MIXED BAG
By Dru
Here's my latest list of cool stuff I haven't found time to blog about yet: From the "I can't believe I've never run across this one before" department, the Netcraft of mailservers. Some oldies but goodies for those into Unix humour...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598295
IDENTIFYING YOUR STRENGTHS
By kenyonswim
There are a slew of blogs and books out there that point to "how to identify who or what you are, and what you like to do" genre. In my subsequent job loss, I've been forced to re-evaluate who I was, and why...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598296
**** DOER WIKI ****
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Recent Wiki Contributions
RESILIENT PACKET RING
By aksbh
Resilient packet ring (RPR) is a network technology that is optimized for an efficient packet networking over a fiber ring topology and is being developed as a topology and new standard for fiber optic rings which are widely deployed as part of WANs...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598297
NODE
By innobate
In a network, a node is a connection point, either a redistribution point or an end point for data transmissions. In general, a node has programmed or engineered capability to recognize and process or forward transmissions to other nodes. A node is any intelligent device...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598298
SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL
By innobate
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a standard text-based client-server protocol which facilitates the email transmission across the Internet. Using SMTP the client transmits an email message to the server. The end-user email client is referred to as the MUA...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/580877
POST OFFICE PROTOCOL VERSION 3
By cfaj
The Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) is a client/server protocol used for downloading and reading messages from a mail server.The POP or POP3 (the later version of POP) is a kind of "store-and-forward" mail managing service. After connecting to the server...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598299
NETWORK QUALITY ASSURANCE
By narahari
QA for all network related aspects, like performance, configuration of devices, maintenance, error control, upgradation, migration, etc.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598300
FILE EXCHANGE PROTOCOL
By aksbh
File eXchange Protocol (FXP) is a specialized FTP protocol which facilitates to transfer data from server to server (that is from one remote server to another server) without routing the data through the clients connection. In the FXP session, a client maintains a standard FTP...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/595396
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Most Popular New Job Posting
ANSS - REMEDY APPLICATION ANALYST NEEDED
Company: Accenture
Location: San Antonio, TX
Accenture is seeking a ANSS - Remedy Application Analyst who has at least 1 year experience in BMC Remedy installation and configuration. Description: Organization : ANSS - Systems Integration & Technology...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598301
Recent Job Postings
SIEBEL SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER- SR SPECIALIST NEEDED
Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC is seeking a Siebel Systems Programmer- Sr Specialist who has a Bachelors degree and a minimum of five years of Siebel administration...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598302
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-SUPPLY NETWORK PLANNING CONSULTANT NEEDED
Company: Bristlecone, Inc.
Location: Nationwide
Bristlecone, Inc. is seeking a Supply Chain Management-Supply Network Planning Consultant who has at least 2 year's Supply Chain experience, including one full cycle implementation of...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/595400
SAP PROJECT LEADER, ERP INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING NEEDED
Company: Merck & Co. Inc.
Location: Whitehouse Station, NJ
Merck & Co. Inc. is seeking a SAP Project Leader, ERP Infrastructure Engineering who has at least eight years of experience with the development and implementation of global infrastructure...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/591395
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, WINDOWS NEEDED
Company: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
The Office of Information Technology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is seeking candidates for a Windows Systems Administrator. This is a full-time, 12-month professional...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/588859
MS PROJECT SERVER ADMIN NEEDED
Company: Brooksource
Location: Nashville, TN
Brooksource is seeking an experienced Administrator to configure, administer, and maintain MS Project Server '07 for large project management group. This position will likely be termed as a...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/588860
Related Jobs (North American candidates only)
Networking // Security // CISCO // Consultants needed all over US
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CCIE - Cisco Networking (CCIE/LAN/WAN) Expert
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**** UPCOMING EVENTS & WEBCASTS ****
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WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
9/27/2007 by WITI
Date: September 26-29, 2007 Location: Santa Clara, CA Venue: Hyatt Regency <br>WITI's Women and Technology Summit is Returning to the Silicon Valley! Including the 12th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards! Innovation will lead the topics at WITI's 2007 Women and Technology...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/589717
INTEROP NEW YORK
10/22/2007 by CMP Media
Date: October 22-26, 2007 Location: New York, NY Venue: Javits Center, NY <br>See all of the latest technologies in action at Interop New York, October 22-26, 2007. Visit 200+ exhibitors, attend 100+ sessions, and check out live demos of practical business solutions.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/588861
MOBILE BUSINESS EXPO
10/22/2007 by CMP
Date: October 22-25, 2007 Location: New York, NY Venue: Javits Convention Center <br>With case studies, demonstrations, keynotes, workshops and conference tracks covering the latest mobile technologies, and issues such as security and infrastructure decisions, Mobile Business Expo helps you build and manage a mobile...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/583461
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