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Getting out of jail free

Matt Prigge — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

It's 1:30 in the morning. By some miracle, you were able to get approval for a four-hour downtime window to complete a long list of overdue patching and network maintenance. Even better, you're done a half-hour early. Life is good!

26 helpful open source network management tools

Pete Babb — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Dek:

Here are some high-quality network management tools based on open source and available at little or no cost

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Network World

16 essential Android apps for IT pros

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:31:00 +0000

There are hundreds of thousands of Android apps, including many that are useful for IT professionals on the job. These apps can help connect to servers, monitor computers, access databases, analyze the airwaves, scan networks, and serve as a reference. Here are 16 of these essential apps, most of them free.

Alcatel-Lucent aims to fix network issues before they arise

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:18:49 +0000

Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a set of services to proactively analyze performance in fixed networks, identify potential problems and take action to minimize their impact, the company said on Monday.

As operators move more services to their IP-based networks, they also become more reliant on good network performance. It can mean the difference between retaining a loyal subscriber or losing them to a competitor, according to Alcatel-Lucent.

Trend Micro takes aim at stealthy hackers stealing secrets

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:04 +0000

Trend Micro says it can catch hackers in action breaking into networks and trying to steal secrets with a new line of line of network-analysis tools and security services.

Branded Real-Time Threat Management Solutions, Trend Micro's approach includes network appliances monitor network traffic for telltale signs of hacker entry or malware, such as outbound botnet traffic calling back to its master control point.

Japanese Internet providers weather disasters

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:58:22 +0000

As Japan deals with the aftermath of its strongest earthquake ever, a devastating tsunami, and potential nuclear disasters, the nation's Internet has managed to survive and provide emergency communications for workers and displaced family members, according

F5 Networks gunning for more data center control

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Cisco owns networking, right? Not when it comes to the rapidly growing Layer 4-7 switching market. There, F5 Networks has managed to garner nearly 50 percent market share, while Cisco's share has actually declined. John McAdam, F5's CEO, attributes the company's success to having won ownership of certain strategic control points in today's consolidated data centers.

Egypt flips the kill switch the other way

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:45:33 +0000

On Wednesday, at 11:29 a.m.

Top 10 free open source tools for network admins

Doug Dineley — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Routing issues, slow network applications, DNS resolution problems -- a network administrator has to deal with a host of network nuisances on a daily basis. How do you survive when you're constantly under the gun to fix the problems? Like any other professional, you need a solid set of tools.

Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:45:10 +0000

Businesses are better off deploying multivendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner.

InfoWorld's 2011 Technology of the Year Award winners

Doug Dineley — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Dek:

The InfoWorld Test Center picks the year's best hardware, software, and development tools

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InfoWorld

Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street -- to everyone's peril

Bill Snyder — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts of latency into them. By doing so, they can subtly change the course of trading and pocket profits of millions of dollars in just a few seconds, says Rony Kay, a former IBM research fellow and founder of cPacket Networks, a Silicon Valley firm that develops chips and technologies for network monitoring and traffic analysis.

Oracle expands systems management suite

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:01:53 +0000

In an effort to ease the complexity of system administration, Oracle has expanded its Enterprise Manager software to include servers, operating systems, networking gear and virtual environments, the company announced Tuesday.

The new release, called Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center, "is the part of Enterprise Manager that manages the bottom part of your stack," said Steve Wilson, Oracle's vice president for systems management.

Beware these network vulnerabilities inside the network

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:13:22 +0000

Today's state-of-the-art network security appliances do a great job of keeping the cyber monsters from invading your business. But what do you do when the monster is actually inside the security perimeter? Unfortunately, all of the crosses, garlic, wooden stakes, and silver bullets in the world have little effect on today's most nefarious cyber creatures.

Here are the top 10 ways your network can be attacked from inside and what you can do to insure your business never has to perform an exorcism on your servers.

Will the complexity of IT systems be our undoing?

admin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:11 +0000

Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing. In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems.

Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions.

Facebook outage caused by database glitch

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:06:53 +0000

Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage -- which lasted more than two hours for some users -- is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need for effective testing and change control procedures.

Brocade to release unified IP, Fibre Channel network management

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:02:24 +0000

Brocade has announced a new application aimed at managing storage-area networks (SAN) that use the Internet or Fibre Channel protocols through a single user interface.

Brocade Network Advisor will offer network administrators the ability to configure, monitor, and report on all Brocade switch-enabled SANs, including those using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), wireless networks, and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), according to Ajay Nilaver, Brocade's director of product management and marketing.

Solving the wireless Net neutrality conflict

Galen M. Gruman — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

The Net neutrality debate often descends into the kind of partisan dementia found on Fox News and MSNBC. It doesn't have to.

In the debate today, carriers claim they need to regulate what users do on their networks (including the Internet, whose traffic moves through carrier networks for part of the journey) because data usage is growing 10 times as fast as the revenue from data, causing bandwidth shortages and threatening their economic viability.

Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading

Doug Dineley — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took the IT world by storm: They make deployment a snap -- even instantaneous -- while at the same time reducing costs. It's a formula that made hardware-based appliances immensely popular for network security, backup, storage networking, file services, email, and many other single-focus solutions.

VMware vCloud Director gets Zenoss monitoring app

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:06:34 +0000

After setting up a cloud infrastructure, an organization needs tools to monitor that it is running as smoothly as planned.

With this in mind, software provider Zenoss has customized its server and networking monitoring application, Zenoss Enterprise, for VMware's newly released cloud management software, vCloud Director.