News podcast: Network World 360 Juniper is expected to announce lay offs next month, including employees in its enterprise business, according to an investment firm. Technology companies will have a major opportunity to snag government contracts by working with the Obama administration on its planned cybersecurity goals. (7:38) Products of the Week Cool new announcements from HP, BigFix, Infoblox and others. FCC questions Comcast's VoIP management protocols The Federal Communications Commission has issued a letter to Comcast questioning whether the ISP is degrading rival VoIP traffic in favor of its own service. WhiteHouse.gov's new robots.txt Lenssen: Now that Barack Obama is US president, the White House website saw an overhaul. And as Jason Kottke noticed, so did the whitehouse.gov robots.txt file, which tells search engine crawlers like the Googlebot which content is OK to index. According to Jason here's the before and after. Citrix plans 'bare metal' desktop hypervisor Citrix Systems is working with Intel to develop a "bare metal" hypervisor for client PCs, which proponents say could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by overcoming... Cisco scammer gets 5 years in jail A federal judge today sentenced an independent computer contractor who bilked Cisco and its SmartNet program out of $4.2 million, to five years in prison. Riverbed to buy Mazu for analysis tools Riverbed will acquire Mazu Networks to add application performance analysis to its offerings, allowing enterprises and carriers to measure the benefits of WAN optimization. Obama inauguration sets Web traffic record, Akamai says Akamai's Web traffic delivery surged to record levels during President Barack Obama's inauguration yesterday, as the company's global content delivery networks had to deliver... DoD offers free security training Schiffman: Our tax dollars at work...or is it tax dollars from our work? Regardless, you can save budgetary resources by outsourcing security training to our government. A curriculum of free web based training from the Department of Defense (DoD) concentrates on Information assurance (IA), although covers a wide range of security topics. What Do You Think of ClearSight Networks Network Time Machine? Sevcik and Wetzel: This week we zero in on ClearSight Networks' Network Time Machine in our ongoing series of profiles and reader evaluations of application performance management products. Born as AppDancer Networks in 2001, the company received a cash infusion from Japan's Toyo Corporation as well as new management and the ClearSight name in 2003. ClearSight's Network Time Machine is a traffic monitoring appliance designed for high-capacity Ethernet links. |
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