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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.

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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Network/Systems Management News Alert

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)

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.

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IT Market Watch News Alert

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.

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.

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Unified Communications

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.

* 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.

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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.

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LANs & Routers

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.

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?

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All Things Gibbs

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).”

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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)...

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

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Data Center News Alert

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.

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.

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Network Optimization

Network World's Network Optimization Newsletter, 07/31/07

The appeal of managed WAN optimization services

By Ann Bednarz

Deciding whether to deploy and manage a new technology in-house using internal IT resources or go with an outsourcer is a common dilemma in the IT world, and the WAN optimization market is no exception.

As the WAN optimization market matures, more enterprises are opting to go with a managed service instead of running their own gear, according to Robert Whiteley, a senior analyst at Forrester Research who said he talks frequently with folks “struggling to get applications to deploy and perform well across a global footprint.”

Whiteley spoke about the future of managed WAN optimization services in a recent Webcast put on by Ipanema Technologies.

To set the stage, Whitely talked about how companies are taxing their WANs as they deploy more distributed applications, perform remote backup procedures, and pursue server and data-center consolidation efforts, for example. “What that means is that you’re asked to increase your application footprint while decreasing your infrastructure footprint, all while making it more secure and more able to recover from disasters,” Whiteley said. “It’s quite difficult and puts a big tax on the [WAN].”

It takes only a couple of demanding applications to create a fairly low-bandwidth or high latency network, and poorly performing applications can hinder employees’ ability to complete key business processes and effect customer care, Whiteley said.

When it comes to solving the problem of bottlenecks in the application environment, Whiteley said that a WAN optimization service can be more cost-effective than deploying in-house technology.

For one, a managed service eliminates a lot of upfront configuration pains. To get appropriate application visibility and control across a network takes a lot of setup work if you do it yourself, he said. In addition, a managed service lets a company quickly scale applications, decrease its network integration costs and mitigate ongoing costs associated with optimizing application delivery.

As the market for managed WAN optimization services gets off the ground, Whiteley expects they initially will be most appealing to small and midsize businesses, which in the past have been priced out of costly WAN optimization gear. As options mature, more large enterprises will consider the model, he said.

Meanwhile, options are increasing. AT&T launched a managed application acceleration service in early June, followed by network and security services provider Virtela Communications, which announced its own suite of managed services for improving application and protocol performance over the WAN about a month ago.

In the next newsletter I’ll share Whiteley’s recommendations for selecting the right provider.

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Ann Bednarz is an associate news editor at Network World responsible for editing daily news content. She previously covered enterprise applications, e-commerce and telework trends for Network World. E-mail Ann.

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Daily News: AM

Network World Daily News: AM, 07/31/07

The Simpsons Movie sparks spam blast
Spammers are jumping on the success of The Simpsons Movie to trick e-mail users into validating their addresses, so they can then send them more spam.

Tool tests for phishing-attack gullibility
Do your company’s employees seem like easy dupes for e-mail phishing attacks and other scams? A vulnerability-assessment tool from Core Security Technologies lets you set up automated tests to find out.

Cisco muffles Linksys death knell
The saga of Cisco and its Linksys consumer and small-business division continued last week as Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers hinted at the companies' future branding strategy.

San Francisco Wi-Fi wait grows
The next crucial votes on San Francisco's municipal Wi-Fi proposal will be delayed until next month while chosen contractor EarthLink becomes increasingly skittish about building wireless networks for cities.

Botnets identified and blocked with new hosted service
A security tool that identifies botnets and blocks attacks from these zombie networks is being made available by Trend Micro online in the software-as-a-service model.

Cisco pushing virtualization, automation
Cisco last week unveiled its next-generation data center strategy along with a key product to support that vision at its annual Networkers conference.

Microsoft breaks ground on San Antonio data center
Microsoft is relying on green technologies in its newest data centers, including one in San Antonio where it is breaking ground on Monday.

Podcast

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)

Blogs

Buzzblog: E-mail etiquette question: Thanks or no thanks?
We're talking about those e-mail messages that say nothing but "thanks" ... even though the sender already said "thanks" in the e-mail that started the exchange. “The unadorned thanks,” if you will. Unnecessary? A waste of time for one and all? ... Or just being polite? Chime in. Vote in our poll.

Today at Cisco Subnet
Brad Reese blasts Cisco's top Washington D.C. counsel for her "lame" thoughts about Google's bid for the 700 MHz spectrum auction. 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. Cisco confirms the real fate of the Linksys brand. Plus: Did Cisco buy another Web 2.0 firm?

Microsoft wants approval on its own open source licensing
Microsoft wants the open source community to give it a stamp of approval for its own method of open licensing. Is the move savvy – or just nervy?

Today on Layer 8 where just becasue we are the best doesn't mean we have to says so:
If you have a hard time getting your CEO’s head through the office door, you should prepare your self and your company for a business rollercoaster ride from hell. That’s the conclusion of a Pennsylvania State study that measured the level of narcissism exhibited by 111 CEOs of computer software and hardware companies and compared it to the subsequent strategies and performance of those companies.

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Wide Area Networking

Network World's Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 07/31/07

How optimizing the business network could help you optimize your career

By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler

As recently as a few years ago, it was difficult to find a network organization that was concerned with application delivery but now it is top of mind for the vast majority of businesses. Because of this, we’ve written extensively on the topic and have discussed application delivery from myriad perspectives, including trying to make sense of how the key vendors compare and sorting through the relevant issues on the minds of IT organizations.

One perspective we’ve not previously discussed is the impact of application delivery on our careers. We believe the impact is a classic good news/bad news situation. To put the good news into perspective, we believe that it is often difficult for the networking organization to be seen as providing direct business benefit. OK, there is no doubt that the company could not function without the WAN, but it also could not function without electricity. That does not mean that the company’s senior business managers believe that electricity provides direct business benefit. They know they need it and they just expect it to be there. In many cases, the same thing applies to the WAN. The difference being that many senior business managers would rather have a conversation about electricity than about MPLS or other WAN technologies.

So what’s the good news? The good news is that while senior business managers are not interested in WAN technologies, they are interested in the performance of the few key applications that they use to run their business. This presents the network organization with the opportunity to show business value, and potentially bolster our careers, by demonstrating how we ensure that the company’s key business applications exhibit acceptable performance.

As mentioned, there is also bad news, ensuring acceptable application performance is extremely difficult. One of the reasons is because ensuring acceptable application performance requires the tight integration of multiple tasks. As explained in our Performance Management Mandate report, some of the tasks that must be integrated include planning, optimization, management and control. We will come back to the topic of integrating these tasks in our next newsletter.

As we said, ensuring acceptable application performance is not easy but we believe the effort is worth it for a number of reasons. We’d have better careers if we are perceived as adding and managing the functionality required to ensure the performance of the applications that the company uses to run their business than if we are perceived as merely managing commodity-like WAN services.

We would like to hear from you on the topic of how application delivery is impacting your job. One thing that we are particularly curious about is whether you are spending less time on classic networking issues such as fault management and more on issues of application performance and security.

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Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com

Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail.

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Network Access Control

Network World's Network Access Control Newsletter, 07/31/07

Biggest concern for businesses looking to deploy NAC

By Tim Greene

The biggest concern for businesses thinking about deploying NAC are the cost and complexity of the project, according to a survey by Current Analysis.

The worries about how complex the deployments are centered on whether the NAC gear would be compatible with other hardware and software already deployed and what it would take to remedy any problems, according to “The Current Analysis 2007 NAC Enterprise Demand Survey.”

Beyond these concerns, potential NAC users also worry in a general way that NAC gear isn’t fully baked yet. As a result, they may want to delay deployment until it matures, the survey concludes.

Despite these concerns, corporate investment in NAC is increasing and many seem on the verge of buying. Most respondents to the survey say they plan to have their NAC deployments completed within two years, with more midsized businesses indicating they will deploy within a year.

The large corporations say they expect NAC to be a continuing area of growth, not a one-time installation, the survey says.

Respondents to the survey were most aware of Cisco’s NAC than any other vendors'. “No vendor comes close to Cisco’s ability to garner market attention,” the survey says. Interestingly, though, start-ups that sell nothing but NAC gear generated the greatest loyalty among customers that have already deployed.

The other big vendor getting into NAC, Microsoft with its network access protection (NAP), is being hurt by its delays releasing the components necessary to deploy NAP. The percentage of respondents willing to wait for Microsoft to ship NAP has dropped since last year’s survey, and few respondents plan to deploy it when it is released later this year.

More information about the report written by Andrew Braunberg is available from Current Analysis.

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Storage in the Enterprise

Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 07/31/07

Caringo updates content-addressable storage system

By Deni Connor

Start-up Caringo this week is enhancing its content-addressable storage system by adding local- and wide-area replication.

Caringo’s CAStor 2.0 software runs on commodity x86 servers that have a pair of Serial ATA drives in a cluster configuration. Each node in the cluster contains a USB memory key, which contains the CAStor software and enables the server to run as a content-addressable storage device. A CAStor cluster can consist of hundreds of nodes.

All files stored on a CAStor cluster are replicated to other nodes for disaster recovery. If a disk fails, the data can be reconstructed from the data replicated to other nodes.

The new version of CAStor adds asymmetric local- and wide-area replication to enhance the disaster recovery aspects of the cluster. Redundant data resides on separate sub-clusters within the same site or on a remote site.

Local-area replication lets an IT administrator create sub-clusters in CAStor and split the cluster based on location. Wide-area replication is used for disaster recovery and availability.

CAStor 2.0 also includes a new Web-based management console, from which IT administrators can monitor the health of the cluster and perform administrative tasks. It also supports booting of the servers from the network, centralized configuration files and performance enhancements.

This version of CAStor also introduces the concept of ‘anchor streams.’ An anchor stream is an updateable object with a unique identifier, where a user can store and update information such as database backups. Anchor Streams are useful for backups and system recovery. IT can create an anchor stream and write information to the unique identifier each time they back up CAStor. To recover information, the IT administrator simply accesses the unique identifier.

CAStor was created by Paul Carpentier, a former architect of FilePool, which EMC acquired and turned into Centera.

The product is available now.

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Servers

Network World's Servers Newsletter, 07/31/07

IBM iSeries gets a Power6 boost

By Jennifer Mears

Earlier this month, IBM announced an overhaul of its System i division that resulted in the blending of System i sales with System p sales in two distinct units: the Business Systems Unit, focused on small and midsize businesses, and the Power Systems Unit, focused on the enterprise.

By and large, the move was applauded by analysts who said the change in structure should help IBM better expand its customer base for the System i.

To that end, IBM last week provided a preview of the new operating system for the System i, saying that i5/OS Version 6 would be out in 2008. The new version will take advantage of advancements in the new Power6 chip by offering better security and virtualization capabilities, as well as broader support for Web services by including a Web application server built into the software. You can read about the Power6 chip and its features here.

IBM also announced a new Power6-based System i box – the System i 570 – which will have the new processor, but will run the current version of i5/OS until the new version of the OS ships. In the meantime, the current OS has been tweaked to support the MySQL open source database, IBM says. That means more open source applications will be supported on the System i hardware. The hardware itself is modular, consisting of up to four nodes with one to four processors each so that the i570 can be as large as a 16-way SMP box. IBM is offering a kind of pay-per-use pricing for the i570, as well. Get more specifics on the i570 here). The product should be available in September and priced starting at $165,000.

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Breaking news

FCC rules for 700MHz wireless spectrum coming Tuesday
The FCC is expected to set the rules tomorrow surrounding the auction of a broad chunk of nationwide wireless spectrum that is being sought by traditional wireless carriers and Google, which wants to loosen up the restrictions customers have on what they can use their wireless services for.

Feds to award $50 billion IT services deal
The U.S. federal government will award on Tuesday a 10-year, $50 billion IT services contract called Alliant that is available to all civilian and defense agencies for purchasing IT systems design, software engineering and other services.

Review

NAC alternatives hit the mark
Network-access control is a buzzword of epic proportion. And as is the case with much of larger-than-life industry vernacular, products with even the slightest aspect of access control are being pitched by their makers as integral components of the NAC fray. We test 13 NAC point products; see why we rated Symantec tops, above Juniper, Cisco and Check Point.

In depth

Managing IP video on the network
The growing popularity of video surveillance is fueled by the shift to IP video systems that are less expensive than traditional analog systems and make it easier to add or relocate cameras and multicast video signals to multiple locations.

From the blogs and forums

Ken Presti asks: Should Linksys go away? Brad Reese examines a potential war between Google and, no, not Microsoft, but Cisco over wireless spectrum. Michael J. Morris looks at the cheapie bags given out at the Cisco Networkers conference last week.

James Gaskin ponders the respective costs of fighting hackers and complying with Sarbanes-Oxley. Adam Gaffin bemoans the adaptability of comment spammers. Keith Shaw wonders about encryption on laptops. Greg Royal discusses a survey showing CIOS really, really want IP telephony. Douglas Alger asks if you know the cooling and power available to your data center.

John Obeto explains Windows Rally network technologies. Susan Hanley poses seven key questions to answer on collaboration RoI.

Users continue to discuss the Cisco/Apple/Duke wireless issue. Users discuss why so many companies are losing the battle against botnets (IRC is involved). Thomas J. Raef reads about increasing attacks via instant messaging and wonders if there are any legitimate business needs for P2P networks. One user reads about IBM requirements for employees in Second Life and ponders if that means they have to all wear long-sleeved white shirts and dark, conservative neck ties. Users debate challenge/response in messaging.

How to

Ron Nutter helps a user build a wireless network. John Peters explains how you could steal a page from J.K. Rowlings and protect your intellectual property. Tom Barsi takes a look at NAC challenges and alternatives.

Audio/video

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.

Audio: 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.

More news

Cisco pushing virtualization, automation
Cisco last week unveiled its next-generation data center strategy along with a key product to support that vision at its annual Networkers conference.

Q&A: Security top concern for new IETF chair
Three months into his job as chair of the leading Internet standards body, Russ Housley talked with Network World National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan about his strategy for bolting security onto the freewheeling Internet.

Cisco users rock and roll all night
Here's a revelation: Some of the people running the biggest, most sophisticated and mission-critical networks in the world are into KISS.

Microsoft VoIP server and client complete
Microsoft's plunge into voice market will put it against the likes of Cisco, IBM.

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Convergence & VoIP

Network World's Convergence & VoIP Newsletter, 07/30/07

Tango boosts its enterprise fixed-mobile convergence gear with IMS

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Earlier this month, Tango Networks announced the addition of enhanced IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) functionality to its Abrazo product suite. The Abrazo system is an enterprise fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution designed for employees to share a single phone number for both their cellular phone and their office phone, along with providing the capability for the user to make and receive calls through the PBX from their cellular phones no matter where the employee is located. The handoff between phones is controlled by an Abrazo device that sits on the enterprise network so it isn’t dependent on a single wireless provider, although a carrier-scale device is also available for service providers who want to offer hosted FMC.

Abrazo enables features like four- or five-digit dialing from the mobile phone to another PBX extension, a single integrated voice mail box, user-defined call routing (similar to other IP telephony systems), and bilateral handoffs between the desktop phone and the cell phone. The system supports both GSM and 802.11 connectivity, and it has demonstrated interoperability with both TDM and IP-based PBX installations.

Tango also offers APIs so users can customize features to their specific business requirements. Recognizing that most enterprise users don’t have a dual mode (GSM/802.11) phone, Tango has designed the solution so employees can use their existing GSM mobile phone with features adapted to any limitations posed by the existing handset.

While the Abrazo solution is based on IMS, it is also compatible with existing carrier network architectures including IS41, WIN, GSM/MAP, and CAMEL protocols. Support for these legacy mobile operator protocols are important because even though mobile operators are moving toward a full IMS architecture, legacy call control protocols are still responsible for the lion’s share or network capability.

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Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at lhettick@currentanalysis.com

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Storage News Alert

Network World's Storage News Alert, 07/30/07

Cisco airs server management appliance, 07/25/07: Cisco introduced an appliance that lets servers be provisioned off storage on the network.

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)

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.

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Wireless in the Enterprise

Network World's Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 07/30/07

New models for mobile WANs?

By Joanie Wexler

A truism often muttered by grizzled networking veterans is that the value of a network increases proportionately to the breadth of its reach.

This axiom has always represented a bit of a Catch-22, particularly in mobile WANs. If coverage represents the primary yardstick of a network’s value, why do multiple competitive mobile operators build islands of redundant networks in predominantly the same places?

The reason is that it’s the metro areas where the carrier money is to be made. And for the past 15 years, competition has been about basic connectivity and pricing plans.

However, Sprint Nextel has the opportunity to improve the situation. So do bidders in the upcoming 700MHz auctions. This new generation of networks could become standards-based, far-reaching mobile foundations that function as a service delivery platform, upon which innovators compete to deliver innovative application services.

For its part, Sprint has made important strides toward building a mobile WiMAX ecosystem. It recently announced plans to interconnect its mobile WiMAX infrastructure with Clearwire’s to collectively cover a U.S. population of about 300 million. The two companies have said that they will also work jointly on WiMAX-based application services.

Sprint has also partnered with Google to offer search, location services, social networking, e-mail, chat, and other application services on the WiMAX network. And the carrier has said it will provide access to anyone’s application services on its WiMAX network (unlike today’s closed cellular models).

These latest developments appear to be a strong step toward correcting what, IMHO, went wrong in the cellular industry in the mid-90s: using and developing two incompatible wireless protocols, splintering coverage and interoperability.

In what sounds like is shaping up to be an open-access model, Sprint and Clearwire will still have to work out how to control bandwidth for QoS. Perhaps they will leverage intelligent bandwidth management capabilities long used by enterprises. With deep packet inspection (DPI)-capable traffic shapers, operators can apportion capacity to specific applications and protocols on a per-subscriber basis so that users get what they pay for.

Now, DPI discussions teeter on the controversial topic of 'Net neutrality. Suffice to say that using network intelligence to enforce service-level agreements and efficiently manage capacity should be a no-brainer for any network operator. Misuse of DPI to unfairly control network use to benefit a few wealthy content providers is fodder for another discussion.

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Voices of Networking

Voices of Networking, 07/30/07

By Jeff Caruso

King Kong Sprint drops customers, 07/20/07: An interesting thing just happened: Sprint Nextel "fired" some 1,000 customers. That's right - Sprint sent them letters and told them they needed to find another cell phone carrier because it didn't want their business! Why didn't Sprint want their ...

Dr. Internet: Apple iPhones in the network, 07/25/07: The first Apple iPhones are showing up in our network. They seem to find the wireless network and acquire a DHCP address pretty easily. Some people are already using them with our e-mail system. It is only a matter of time before questions start ...

Nutter's Help Desk: The best way to block employee access to Web sites, 07/23/07: We are beginning to have more and more of a problem with 'improper' use of the Internet. Although we expect some personal use - periodic checking of personal e-mail for example but sometimes there is less business use of the Internet happening and ...

Cool Tools: USB device uses image analysis to scan for inappropriate images, 07/25/07: The USB device includes detection software that uses image-analysis algorithms to scan a notebook or desktop for potentially inappropriate images or Web pages.

Johnson: Spectrum allocation: The action heats up, 07/25/07: Forget “Live Free or Die Hard.” This summer’s major action adventure is the debate over the FCC’s planned 700MHz spectrum auction, scheduled for January.

Bradner: FCC may be told to tell truth, 07/24/07: Congress may tell FCC to produce useful statistics on broadband deployment.

Musthaler: The iPhone: Just say no, 07/24/07: At long last, the Apple iPhone has shipped, and more than a half-million of the hybrid phone/entertainment devices are in the wild after a sell-out first weekend of sales. More are on the way, as the invasion has begun. The question is, how long until ...

Backspin: IT: red in tooth and claw, 07/24/07: 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 ...

Dr. Internet: A cure for traffic transfer troubles, 07/23/07: I’m trying to speed up TCP/IP based file transfers on one of our network segments. I replaced the 100MB Ethernet switch with a Gigabit switch and the connection lights show that all the workstations are connected at full speed. The problem is that ...

Gearhead: Virtual CD Drives, TIFFs and PDFs, 07/25/07: Following up on the recent Gearhead column on 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 ...

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Network World Daily News: AM, 07/30/07

How cheaters are winning at online games like World of Warcraft
New book by security expert exposes cheating in online games like World of Warcraft.

IM attacks up nearly 80%, Akonix says
The total of malicious code attacks this year is already over 200 and climbing.

Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine
A judge ordered the former CEO of Qwest to pay $52 million and spend six years in prison for insider trading.

Acquisitions show wireless LAN industry keeps innovating
Wireless LAN vendors acquiring security and VoIP technologies as they lay groundwork for next wave of WLAN innovation.

Online legislation-writing effort gets good reviews
A blog launched this month has teamed with a U.S. senator in an effort to write new broadband legislation, and so far participants have given the process high marks.

Google plans YouTube antipiracy tool for September
Google Inc. aims to deliver in September a long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in its YouTube video sharing site.

Hotmail maintenance glitch locks users out
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live Hotmail Webmail service remained inaccessible to a portion of its users for several hours on Friday, but the problem has been resolved.

California report slams e-voting system security
Researchers commissioned by the State of California have found security issues in every electronic voting system they tested, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Friday.

Wi-Fi traffic testing application on tap from VeriWave
VeriWave’s new software creates a mix of real-world Wi-Fi traffic patterns, to test WLAN designs and production nets.

Blogs

Today at Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft Services Platform is at the heart of its software service plan. Blogger Sue Hanley has 7 questions for measuring the value of collaboration deployments.

The past 7 days on Cisco Subnet: Networkers roundup
Unless you were locked in the server room all week, you would know that Cisco held its annual Networkers bash in Anaheim, Calif. Gyrating dancers and rollerbladers warmed up the audience for John Chambers' keynote, and rockers KISS played at the afterparty. Oh, and some products were announced and tacky bags were handed out too.

Buzzblog: CBS Sports and Google News are confused
Video games televised as a sport? Just like football? So says CBS Sports... And Google News can't seem to tell the difference between a spoof and a news story, even when the spoof involves Google's own YouTube.

Today on Layer 8, where we prefer our eggs sunny-side-up:
Electronic eggs that transmit real-time incubation data from the nest to researchers are all the rage this summer. The telemetric egg, placed in the nest after the mother has laid her eggs, contains sensors that record temperatures on four quadrants of the egg’s surface as well as in the egg’s interior. Motion detectors record how frequently the mother turns the egg during incubation. Data are sent wirelessly via an antenna to a receiver and data logger. The data are recorded 24 hours a day and downloaded to a computer every 48 hours.

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LANs News Alert

Network World's LANs News Alert, 07/30/07

Extreme Networks upgrades secure-switch software, 07/24/07: Extreme Networks this week unveiled two security offerings designed to allow customers improved insight and control over their networks.

IEEE group settles on faster Ethernet plans, 07/24/07: A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds.

Cisco users rock and roll all night, 07/26/07: Here’s a revelation: Some of the people running the biggest, most sophisticated and mission-critical networks in the world are into KISS.

Cisco clarifies software opportunity, 07/25/07: Cisco is looking to become a software company but not by breaking IOS.

The past 7 days on Cisco Subnet: Networkers roundup: Unless you were locked in the server room all week, you would know that Cisco held its annual Networkers bash in Anaheim, Calif. Gyrating dancers and rollerbladers warmed up the audience for John Chambers' keynote, and rockers KISS played at the afterparty. Oh, and some products were announced and tacky bags were handed out too.

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Convergence & VoIP News Alert

Network World's Convergence & VoIP News Alert, 07/30/07

Microsoft VoIP server and client complete, 07/26/07: Microsoft’s plunge into voice market will pit it against the likes of Cisco, IBM.

U.K. considers VoIP emergency call access, 07/26/07: Internet telephony providers in the U.K. could eventually have to provide access to emergency services as part of a regulation under consideration by the country's telecommunications regulator.

SunRocket asset sale buys time for ex-customers, 07/26/07: Former SunRocket customers have 10 days to sign up with another carrier and have their phone numbers ported, the company winding down the failed business said Thursday.

Reading the tea leaves: Should Linksys go away?: Chambers told a group of European journalists that the Linksys name will be disappear. Cisco Subnet's Channelguy doesn't think this decision, which has huge repercussions to Cisco's SMB strategy, will be that easy to carry out.

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Cisco News Alert

Network World's Cisco News Alert, 07/30/07

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.

Cisco Networkers: Gyrating dancers, rollerbladers and some guy named John Chambers, 07/26/07: The week-long Cisco Networkers extravaganza in Anaheim, Calif., draws to a close. Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy recounts his past 2 days at the event, where disco dancers, Gene Simmons and an IT traffic cop rubbed shoulders with network execs who design, build and operate some of the world's most sophisticated and mission-critical networks.

Cisco users rock and roll all night, 07/26/07: Here’s a revelation: Some of the people running the biggest, most sophisticated and mission-critical networks in the world are into KISS.

Cisco clarifies software opportunity, 07/25/07: Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers this week clarified the company’s strategy to grow into more of a software company.

Cisco adds security, monitoring to WAN optimization gear, 07/25/07: Cisco is introducing encryption of data as it sits on disks within its Wide-Area Application Services gear, making it impossible for thieves to make sense of the data even if they steal the drives.

Cisco airs server management appliance, 07/25/07: Cisco introduced an appliance that lets servers be provisioned off storage on the network.

California city connects with open-source networking, 07/25/07: The city of Madera, Calif., has spent the last year successfully running an open-source-based network as a replacement for one based on Cisco gear.

The past 7 days on Cisco Subnet: Networkers roundup: Unless you were locked in the server room all week, you would know that Cisco held its annual Networkers bash in Anaheim, Calif. Gyrating dancers and rollerbladers warmed up the audience for John Chambers' keynote, and rockers KISS played at the afterparty. Oh, and some products were announced and tacky bags were handed out too.

Reading the tea leaves: Should Linksys go away?: Chambers told a group of European journalists that the Linksys name will be disappear. Cisco Subnet's Channelguy doesn't think this decision, which has huge repercussions to Cisco's SMB strategy, will be that easy to carry out.

Cisco outlines products affected by Java flaw: Cisco is urging users to update all applications and components that are vulnerable to a Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) flaw disclosed by Sun on July 10.

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Networking Technology Update

Networking Technology Update, 07/30/07

Managing IP video on the network

By Bob Banerjee

The growing popularity of video surveillance is fueled by the shift to IP video systems that are less expensive than traditional analog systems and make it easier to add or relocate cameras and multicast video signals to multiple locations.

Yet, every system is limited by two finite resources: network bandwidth and disk space.

A 100Mbps network connection can support nearly 85 cameras producing 10 15KB images per second (about 1Mbps each), but the network will be running at 100% utilization. Whether the IP video system is on the existing IT network or a parallel network, enterprises need to set a realistic bandwidth target and then determine how many cameras can be supported by their infrastructure.

To ensure efficient bandwidth usage, security integrators can help design fluid systems that adjust to accommodate traffic surges. For example, frame rates can be reduced temporarily while the sharpness of each image is maintained, or the same number of frames can be recorded at a lower resolution.

Video content analysis (VCA) embedded in an IP encoder — the device that translates analog camera signals into digital — also can reduce the amount of traffic sent across the network. With VCA at the edge, it is possible to only transmit video that generates an alarm due to a security concern — such as a person loitering, theft of an object or an object left behind in a scene. By selecting specific portions of video to forward, VCA diminishes the amount of bandwidth required for surveillance but enables all camera channels to be monitored effectively.

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Network World's Network/Systems Management Newsletter, 07/30/07

More on HP's big software strategy

By Denise Dubie

You have to give it to HP: when company executives say they are "serious about software" they follow it up with billions of dollars in acquisitions. To be exact, the company has spent about $6.5 billion in "assembling and delivering capabilities" around its software business, according to Thomas Hogan, senior vice president of HP Software.

Last week HP shocked me out of my dog-days-of-summer-slow-news mood with its announced plans to buy data center automation vendor Opsware -- and for a very pretty price: $1.6 billion

Now, let me clarify: I was not shocked that companies were interested in acquiring Opsware. I had just written an entire package of stories about how automation was the next big thing on the management front and had talked to countless people about Opsware being a leader in the market. And BMC also announced it had acquired automation technology with its RealOps purchase.

I was surprised that HP, which less than a year ago completed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive, was putting a lot more money down in another big software acquisition. But like I said, the technology is hot. And Opsware not only has server provisioning capabilities, but it also has network configuration technology, thanks to its acquisition of Rendition Networks. Opsware also acquired run-book automation start-up iConclude earlier this year, giving the vendor a triple play of automation capabilities.

Rumors had been flying around that VMware and others were looking to acquire Opsware, which may be why HP paid a high price for Opsware and its hot technology. Opsware reported more than $100 million in revenue for 2006, that means HP paid about 16 times the acquired company's worth. Industry watchers wonder how, after paying so much, HP will get its money back and start to make a lot of money in software.

"[The acquisition is an] excellent move for the future of HP Software in terms of technology. HP has spent $6 billion in two years to get a $2.2 billion software company," says Jean-Pierre Garbani, a research vice president at Forrester Research. "How they're going to get their money back is a big question, let alone how they're going to make money."

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Optical Networking

Network World's Optical Networking Newsletter, 07/30/07

IEEE chooses two higher speeds for Ethernet

By Jeff Caruso

Should the next standard speed of Ethernet be 40Gbps or 100Gbps? Last week the IEEE's Higher Speed Study Group finally came up with an answer: both.

We saw last month how the group, which had seemed to settle on 100Gbps as the next speed for Ethernet, actually continued to be divided over whether the speed should be 40Gbps or 100Gbps. Last week's meeting was to be a crossroads; the group had to choose a path. It could split into two groups or it could just choose one speed or the other.

The group chose a third option. There will be a single task force working on both speeds, which is the first time such a thing has happened. The project will include the 40Gbps rate for server and storage applications and the 100Gbps rate for aggregation.

The Ethernet Alliance issued a statement laying out the rationale for the dual-speed objectives:

"The HSSG investigated the needs and requirements for the next speed of Ethernet technology. A key finding was a divergence in bandwidth demand between the networking and computing industries. It was discovered 100GbE would likely best meet the demands of the next generation Internet backbone and network aggregation points. In enterprise computing, 40GbE better matches the bandwidth demand driven by server technologies such as host bus interfaces, memory speeds, and multi-core processing."

The group proposed physical-layer interfaces that would allow distances of up to 100 meters for 40Gbps and up to 40 kilometers for 100Gbps.

However, by pursuing both standards in the same group, is the group biting off more than it can chew? This will be a grand experiment.

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Network World Daily News: PM, 07/27/07

IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life
IBM is issuing guidelines governing employee behavior in Second Life as the virtual online world increasingly becomes a platform for doing business. Expect others to follow suit.

Networkiest moments on 'The Simpsons'
In honor of the new Simpsons movie, a look back at the best bits from the network world of 'The Simpsons.'

With Black Hat approaching, a rush to patch iPhone
With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product.

P-to-P users expose U.S. government secrets
Contractors and U.S. government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks.

Show your SysAdmins a little love today
Annual appreciation day is now linked to yearly contest that calls out exemplary IT professionals and showers them with gifts.

Making sense of AMD's processor road map
Advanced Micro Devices Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company's quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores.

Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware
Cisco plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month.

Storm worm gets smarter
Newer variants of the widespread Storm worm have introduced a new technique for evading security experts -- detecting when they are running in a virtual environment and changing their behavior if they are.

Riverbed software optimizes traffic from laptops to data centers
Riverbed is announcing WAN acceleration software for personal computers so users can optimize WAN connections with an appliance at data centers without installing a device at every other location.

SOX: Five years of headaches
Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to prevent Enron-like scandals, the law has forced large public companies to clean up their accounting. But it has been so costly that some foreign companies are dropping out of U.S. stock exchanges, and ...

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Linux & Open Source News Alert

LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 07/27/07

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Game over for OpenDocument? - LinuxWorld, 07/23/07: Is it game over for OpenDocument? Probably. We've been expecting Massachusetts ITD to publicly revise its open formats mandate to include Office Open XML (OOXML) ever since Louis Gutierrez resigned as CIO in early October 2006. That was as clear a signal that ODF had failed in Massachusetts as needed by anyone in the know.

The only surprise is that it took new ITD CIO Bethann Pepoli so long to make the announcement that OOXML would be officially recognized as an "open" XML file format going forward. How she determined OOXML is open when the Microsoft Open Specification Promise allows no other developer to implement it is a mystery, but it seems a safe bet that the decision was based on political and practical considerations rather than sound legal advice about OOXML's qualification as an open standard.

User pressure leads SugarCRM to adopt GPLv3 - LinuxWorld, 07/25/07: SugarCRM is to adopt Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) for the next release of its CRM software after coming under pressure from its user community to move away from its earlier Sugar Public License. Sugar Community Edition 5.0, the open source version of the SugarCRM software, due out in September, will be licensed under GPLv3, the vendor announced Wednesday. GPLv3 debuted at the end of June.

More of this week's Linux news

Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft - LinuxWorld, 07/25/07: Novell swears Microsoft deal panning out; others resist getting chummy with Windows maker.

IBM, University of Florida team up on smart devices - LinuxWorld, 07/24/07: IBM Corp. and the University of Florida believe they've come up with middleware that will allow doctors to remotely monitor the health of their patients.

You're never alone with Plone - LinuxWorld, 07/24/07: Ask Plone users what they like best about the open-source content management software and chances are a key feature they'll list along with ease of use and multilingual support is the community of experts that's grown around the product.

Mozilla patches security holes in Thunderbird - LinuxWorld, 07/23/07: The Mozilla organization has released an update to its Thunderbird 2.x e-mail client that fixes two critical security holes. These same fixes were also recently implemented in Firefox 2.0.0.5.

Linspire agreement 'undermines GPL rights' - LinuxWorld, 07/23/07: The no-lawsuit agreement reached in June between Linspire and Microsoft earlier this year is almost useless to Linspire customers because of tight restrictions on what the deal covers, according to a high-profile open source legal commentator.

OLPC sends laptops to production, pushes back release - LinuxWorld, 07/23/07: One Laptop Per Child Monday moved a step closer to providing low-cost laptops to children in developing nations by giving the go-ahead to the mass production of its XO laptop. However, the computers are expected to be out in October, one month later than originally planned.

Open source here to stay, says MySQL CEO Marten Mickos - LinuxWorld, 07/23/07: Despite a growing acceptance of open-source software, Mickos said Monday in a keynote speech at the first-ever Ubuntu Live Conference in the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, that there are also ongoing threats to open source development.

Sprinting to create open-source content management - LinuxWorld, 07/20/07: Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test and document software, is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software.

Microsoft strikes GPLv3 from patent deal - LinuxWorld, 07/19/07: Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.

Sabre takes a stab at open source - LinuxWorld, 07/19/07: Most major organizations have already made the move to adopting open source for some enterprise functions. But few have adopted the principles and practices of the open source community as an enterprise model.

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"Project Awesome" takes on Linux driver management: Jon Masters, 07/25/07: Linux driver support is either really great and works out of the box, or it's hell. Now, one project aims to find and deliver new drivers from the latest kernel to users running enterprise releases of older kernels. (podcast)

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Network World Daily News: AM, 07/27/07

Network industry giants get 'Simpsonized'
To celebrate what Entertainment Weekly calls "one of the most anticipated films since the concept of ever was invented," we are taking a look at what the top dogs in the networking world might look like if they were to pay America's favorite dysfunctional family a visit. We put our top 10 top dogs through the Simpsonizeme.com magic machine. See what happened and let us know what YOU think. If you think you can do better, or if we missed someone, let us know!

IT execs divided on need for strategic security vendor
IT execs split on whether to have a strategic security vendor, according to Nemertes Research survey.

Intel accused of breaching European antitrust rules
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
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.

Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership
Alcatel-Lucent plans to extend enterprise security into cellular networks through its own fixed-mobile convergence systems and Aruba's "follow-me" security technology as part of a planned joint venture.

Q&A: Security top concern for new IETF chair
Three months into his job as chair of the leading Internet standards body, Russ Housley talked with Network World National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan about his strategy for bolting security onto the freewheeling Internet.

When will HP’s software shopping spree pay off?
HP seeks to boost its software empire with the proposed $1.6 billion buyout of Opsware, but analysts wonder when HP’s buying binge will pay off on the top and bottom lines.

Microsoft leads series of Web-hosting announcements
New products from Microsoft and numerous other vendors illustrate the impact software-as-a-service is having on the hosting industry.

Microsoft's Ballmer asks investors for patience
Microsoft's CEO emphasized the importance of attracting talent and urged shareholders to be patient with the amount of time it might take the company to pursue its various business models, speaking during Microsoft's annual financial analyst meeting..

Microsoft VoIP server and client complete
Microsoft’s plunge into voice market will pit it against the likes of Cisco, IBM.

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.

Podcasts

One year later, we're still wasting time
Jason and Keith celebrate a year of Twisted Pair by talking about BIND security flaws, the culprit in the Cisco / Duke / Apple iPhone story, and how much time the average worker is wasting while at work.

Podcast: Baseball Hall of Fame slow to induct digital video
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.

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Buzzblog: 1 in 5 watch video clips online daily ...
... and just about 5 in 5 fib about what they're watching most often, at least if you read between the lines of this latest survey from the Pew Internet polling people.

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