Extreme aims new switch at Cisco, HP; Juniper links NAC, IDP; The Wi-Fi T-shirt

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by SW Soft Surfing the server technology wave Learn about the latest trends in server technology and how you should evaluate each. This whitepaper from a respected industry analyst firm identifies four new trends, in virtualization, appliances and blade servers, and spells out the pros and cons of each. Network World Daily News: PM, 10/09/07 NEWS PODCAST: NETWORK WORLD 360, 10/09/07 Worldwide IT spending will surpass $3 trillion in 2007, an 8% jump over last year, according to Gartner; Extreme's new Summit X150 switch line features three models equipped with 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports – one of which has Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports. (5:46) Extreme aims new switch at Cisco, HP gear Extreme Networks this week will unveil and new edge switch as well as software enhancements to help users deploy, operate and optimize the vendor’s gear. Juniper links its NAC, IDP platforms Juniper Networks is linking its intrusion-detection platforms to its NAC gear, making it possible to restrict devices that manage to gain network access by ... Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies. Download This Executive Guide T-shirt shows Wi-Fi signal strength The Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, which the online store ThinkGeek will sell for $29.99, has glowing bars on the front that light up in waves when there's an IEEE 802.11b or 802.11g network in range. IPods, better laptops stemmed from Nobel Prize discovery The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two researchers for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance, a sort of nanotechnology that enables more compact disks to be squeezed into laptops, iPods and other such devices. McAfee to buy SafeBoot for $350M Security software vendor McAfee will acquire SafeBoot for $350 million in an effort to expand its large-business product line, the company announced ... Akamai unveils IP application accelerator Akamai is expanding its Web application-acceleration services to include any IP-based application, including VoIP. IT's third epoch .. and running IT at Google If there's anyone who understands the impact of consumer technology on the enterprise, it's Google CIO Douglas Merrill. He believes we're not only ... Botnetters unleash mini-swarms Botnets are being split into smaller "swarms" to evade detection, analysis from two security vendors has suggested. 3Com waiting for details of Bain/Huawei acquisition bid Senior 3Com Corp. executives are waiting for the full terms of a $2.2 billion acquisition bid to be made public, as several important details affecting the company's future remain unclear. Sun’s new servers powered for virtualization Sun is introducing new rack and blade servers Tuesday running its UltraSPARC T2 processors, pitching them as ideal for virtualization and energy efficiency. IT JOB OUTLOOK Readers speak out: Why IT workers are dissatisfied with salaries If the current IT job market can be described in a single word, that word would have to be "dissatisfaction" - as seen in both the recent Network World salary survey and the more than 600 comments responding to it on our site and around the Web. How to get a job at a hot startup Want a great job at a hot startup? Of course, you do. And there haven't been this many opportunities since the dot com bubble burst. For better or worse, Web 2.0 has helped unleashed a perfect storm of job opportunities.

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