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Cisco extends NAC product lineup Cisco announced a pair of additions to its Network Admission Control (NAC) product line on Monday, launching new tools that promise to extend the authentication system to a greater variety of devices and office environments. Best of open source in enterprise monitoring Open source software has had a foothold in the enterprise monitoring sphere for almost as long as open source has existed. One only needs to look at the sheer ubiquity of small applications such as MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) and its RRDTool back end to see that. What we haven't had from open source is the big application -- the comprehensive, community supported open source enterprise management suite that provides the depth and breadth of functionality that businesses need and generally find in closed-source competitors. That is changing in leaps and bounds. In fact, open source enterprise monitoring solutions are evolving so quickly, we won't even try to declare a clear winner yet -- but we're working on it.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft System Center can ease network security fright The night is so dark, it sticks to your skin. The young geek wanders lost through thick foliage, branches grabbing his sleeves, the glow from his pitiful penlight only serving to accentuate the crushing blackness all around. Suddenly branches snap under mysterious feet somewhere ahead, his heart base jumps into his mouth, and he nearly swallows his penlight in a vain attempt to stay hidden. August 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Analysis: Cisco's transformation still a work in progress Cisco Systems used the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco to trumpet its transformation from "packet pusher" to "infrastructure" company, unveiling a string of product updates that unify its diverse security portfolio on Monday. February 6, 10:10 a.m. PST Networking: Convergence is at hand In networking, the big news of 2006 was the emergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet as a mature, enterprise-ready technology. The past year also witnessed important advances in security and monitoring on the enterprise LAN, thanks to ever tightening integration and partnerships. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM aims security bundle, new blade at telecom space IBM is looking to increase its business with telecommunications operators with the unveiling of products, including a security bundle and a blade server, specially tailored to their needs. December 4, 8:24 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST Government agencies gear up for HSPD 12 Most major IT projects of any size are slow moving beasts: amorphous blobs of specs and builds and regression tests slouching toward completion, someday far in the future. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco, Microsoft to announce NAC progress Cisco Systems and Microsoft will announce progress on a 2-year-old effort to link their separate technologies for network client health screening, commonly known as "network access control," according to sources familiar with the companies' plans. September 6, 7:15 a.m. PDT Entuity grants network admins a third Eye Far too many enterprise networks today lack an essential tool: comprehensive monitoring. Most have some form of connectivity monitoring, such as simple ping tests to ensure that remote sites and Internet access are functional, but the proactive monitoring commonly stops there. September 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM broadens security portfolio with ISS IBM is so massive, so wealthy and has its hands in so many enterprise pies that it’s easy to find wisdom in pretty much any acquisition decision the company makes. In recent weeks, those decisions have been coming hot and heavy: SOA vendor Webify and asset management company MRO, then content management firm FileNet for $1.6 billion. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec to exit security appliance business Symantec laid off staff and said it is shaking up its network and gateway security business this week, ending the company's experiment with security hardware appliances. June 23, 12:38 p.m. PDT Get a head start on NAC In the past two years a consensus architecture has emerged for providing policy-based control over access to networks. Led by the development of the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications, this architecture provides a framework for all standards-based NAC (network access control). It is also shared by the two major proprietary initiatives -- Cisco’s Network Admission Control and Microsoft’s Network Access Protection -- and many other third-party NAC solutions. June 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Companies may miss 20 percent of network printers See correction below May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services A dispute between a mysterious Russian spammer and an Israeli antispam firm spilled over to the rest of the Internet on Wednesday, when denial of service attacks aimed at the Israeli firm's Web site knocked out servers that host millions of blogs. May 4, 11:41 a.m. PDT LogLogic hits the high points of log management There are a million and one log-management tools running in networks all over the world. Some are simple file-searching utilities. Some dig a little deeper. But all are focused on a specific log file from a specific service or network device. They don’t always talk to one another, however, which creates havoc for admins. March 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Entuity improves Eye of the Storm's network vision Entuity on Tuesday unfurled Version 4.5 of its Eye of the Storm network management suite, equipping administrators with greater visibility and control over the network. February 28, 8:30 a.m. PST Fluke Networks hones in on VoIP Joining a line of other network-monitoring companies boosting the VoIP intelligence of their wares, Fluke Networks on Monday unfurled enhancements to its Visual UpTime Select network and application management solution. February 20, 6:00 a.m. PST Product Previews Sand/DNA Digs Into Compressed Data Sand Technology this week updated its DNA (Dynamic Nearline Architecture) data management technology, which compresses data to about 10 percent of its original size and allows the stored data to be searched without being decompressed. Sand is integrating its Sand/DNA Analytics analytic data repository with its Sand/DNA Access storage archival product, and adding new features to both offerings. The integration allows end-users to pull information transparently from DNA Access and load it into DNA Analytics using standard business intelligence tools. This removes much of the time spent on data modeling, according to Sand officials. Sand also introduced Sand/DNA for SAP Business Warehouse, which allows users to move, store, and access highly compressed data from a nearline data repository. Sand/DNA Access and Analytics, Sand Technology February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST Network Physics NP-500 tills the LAN Here’s the scenario: The development guys have just deployed the new version of your CRM application, and the infrastructure group has finally upgraded the backbone to Gigabit Ethernet. So why are the users still complaining about poor performance? Where’s the bottleneck? January 26, 3:00 a.m. PST IT will give up control of the network As we look at all the changes taking place on the Internet during the past several years, I think we can boil it down to two simple observations. First, the volume of traffic is increasing exponentially: E-mail, IM, and RSS all mean more connections. Second, each connection is moving a great deal more data, including multimedia, voice, and video. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST Cisco eyes the application layer Everyone seems to love the idea of an application-aware network that makes deploying and configuring middleware easier -- mainly because application and data integration remain the toughest work in IT. Cisco has made vague noises about smart networking equipment that would do just that ever since its AON (Application-Oriented Networking) initiative launch last June. Last week, at the company's Worldwide Analyst Conference, it cranked up the volume, introducing its SONA (Service-Oriented Network Architecture). December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST F-Secure buys network monitoring company Finnish security vendor F-Secure Corp. has acquired network monitoring appliance vendor ROMmon Corp. The deal, which was completed Wednesday, will give F-Secure a new device to add to its line of security products for ISPs (Internet service providers). December 1, 1:17 p.m. PST EU seeks to limit data retention rules to one year Members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted on Thursday to limit to 12 months the maximum period for which telephone companies and ISPs (Internet service providers) should store call data logs. November 25, 12:00 a.m. PST Competing network-management rivals unfurl faster, smarter wares Network management rivals Network General and Network Instruments on Monday separately announced significant enhancements to their respective Sniffer and Observer product lines. November 7, 12:01 a.m. PST Living in an all-Internet Protocol world Hossein Eslambolchi is a man of many titles. He is president of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs, as well as CIO and CTO of AT&T proper. When Hossein talks, I listen. And what he talks about in late August is the inevitable move to 100 percent IP networking. August 30, 4:00 a.m. PDT BMC CTO: IT still matters SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Contrary to a report published in 2003, IT still does matter, BMC Software CTO Tom Bishop said at the BMC Remedy User Group 2005 conference on Wednesday morning. July 13, 2:10 p.m. PDT An end to Enrons Forget Michael Jackson. The real courtroom dramas today are the trials of Kenneth Lay, Bernie Ebbers, and Dennis Kozlowski in connection with misdeeds at Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, respectively. Today’s execs have more to worry about, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley and other tough laws passed in the wake of these and other corporate scandals. June 20, 5:00 a.m. PDT Business continuity in the face of terrorism Before Richard Clarke published his book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, and became associated with election year politics, he was a senior security advisor to the White House with expertise in counterterrorism and homeland security. Following Sept. 11, 2001, Clarke met twice with a CIO organization that called itself the Chicago Research Planning Group (CRPG) but has since renamed itself the Security Board. May 10, 5:00 a.m. PDT Feed the monitoring multitudes The GigaVue-MP is a modular system that provides line-speed port aggregation, switching, filtering, and duplication of streams via an out-of-band switch fabric for network analysis. It filters traffic on just about anything in the Ethernet header, extracts or combines it with other inputs, sends it to a collection of output ports, and filters it yet again. This combination of pre- and post-filtering allows you to match any link to any tool, as well as perform many-to-one and one-to-many switching. You can send port 80/443 data to your application monitoring tool, VoIP traffic data to your telecom group, and all traffic data to your IDS/IPS tool. Additional monitoring tools can be added to the mix simply by modifying GigaVue’s filter table. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT NEC developing network security analysis system NEC is developing a network security system that will automatically monitor and analyze the configuration of security tools deployed in a network and suggest changes to fix vulnerabilities and any redundancies that exist between them, the company announced Tuesday. March 23, 5:25 a.m. PST BMC adds analysis features to Patrol BMC Software has added a new component to its Patrol product that is designed to help IT managers resolve problems faster, increase system availability, and maximize productivity. February 7, 8:44 a.m. PST CA and Niku sign deal to integrate solutions Computer Associates International, the giant software management vendor, and Niku, an IT management and governance solution vendor, announced a deal to integrate products from both companies. January 28, 12:00 p.m. PST Check Point, McAfee, Sygate, and Trend Micro aim to tighten up loose network endpoints If you manage IT for a government organization -- be it federal, state, or local -- you don't have the luxury of waiting to harden your network defenses, unlike IT managers of commercial enterprises. Public agencies are legally accountable for safeguarding the information they have on their computers, so you must protect that information to avoid serious consequences. December 10, 3:00 p.m. PST Many threats, one view When is too much information a bad thing? When, by its very volume, it obscures the truth. Let’s say, for instance, that you’re in charge of network security. Getting data about possible attacks and vulnerabilities isn’t a problem. Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems, vulnerability scanners, firewalls, and even server logs spew security data nonstop. Making sense of that data, though … there’s the rub. With so much information, it’s almost impossible to winnow the real dangers from the noise. October 29, 3:00 p.m. PDT America rats out Bill, cell phoners get their fill So Yahoo published the results of its Internet deprivation study last week, and I can’t say I’m surprised. Subjects who had their Net connections shut off for two weeks became disoriented and unable to look up phone numbers or read a map without a browser in front of them. Me, I can’t live without the Net for two minutes, let alone two weeks. I’d have to check into the Betty Ford clinic for bandwidth dependency. October 1, 3:00 p.m. PDT Network Physics adds to management line Network Physics has introduced a new distributed architecture for its network management and performance line aimed at helping enterprises ensure the integrity and security of the entire applications infrastructure. September 29, 6:11 a.m. PDT Cisco to acquire network monitoring provider NetSolve Cisco Systems Inc. channel partners will be able to offer real-time monitoring of enterprises' networks after the company agreed to acquire NetSolve Inc., the networking giant said Thursday. September 9, 4:27 p.m. PDT Traffic management shifting lanes The application traffic management space is getting resurfaced as vendors such as F5, Radware, and Redline green-light new products with traffic compression, DoS attack protection, server-side caching, and other features aimed at simplifying and lowering the cost of network management. September 6, 3:00 p.m. PDT U.S. government cracks down on P-to-P piracy U.S. law enforcement agents raided five homes and one Internet service provider on Wednesday in what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calls the first federal enforcement action against piracy on peer-to-peer (P-to-P) networks. August 25, 4:03 p.m. PDT Microsoft needs to open MOM up to more than Windows After questioning Microsoft's response to the Linux desktop wars only a couple of weeks ago, I'm questioning yet another Redmond tack to fend off the steady slip in its über-platform strategy. This time, it's the upcoming beta program for MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) 2005. July 16, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sniffer relaunched as Network General Corp. BOSTON - Sniffer Technologies took its first steps out from under the umbrella of McAfee Inc., emerging Friday as a new, independent and privately held company called Network General Corp. July 16, 2:15 p.m. PDT The Olympics network: Faster, stronger -- and redundant ATHENS, GREECE -- A steady stream of taxis grinds up the hill to the headquarters of the Athens Olympic Committee headquarters, on the northern edge of the city. In the lobby it's all bustle as visitors mill around the accreditation desk and pass through security controls. But on the second floor the glass-walled technology operations center sits idle -- most of the 135 seats in the control room are empty, and all but one of the screens on the video wall are dark. July 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT Olympic-size security demands advance planning If there's one thing the Atos Origin team understands as lead contractor for the Olympic IT infrastructure, it's that you must learn from your mistakes. July 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT Inside the new Novell Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software. Red Hat and MySQL are two of the most-watched software vendors today. And the success of Linux is such that even Microsoft, once considered the unstoppable juggernaut of the OS market, is being forced to play defense. July 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT The end of the line for NetWare? To migrate or not to migrate? That is the question facing NetWare administrators, as IT departments begin planning their first major upgrades since overhauling their systems for Y2K. The message from Novell is clear: Linux is the future, with NetWare likely relegated to legacy status. July 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT CA lowers Q1 revenue forecast MIAMI - The list of enterprise software companies warning they will miss financial goals got longer on Thursday, when Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) lowered its revenue expectations for the first quarter of its 2005 fiscal year. July 8, 4:08 p.m. PDT Cisco to acquire Parc for improved traffic routing Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire London-based traffic engineering and routing software provider Parc Technologies Ltd. in an effort to gain better traffic management in its systems and products, the company said Thursday. July 8, 8:30 a.m. PDT Blue Coat unveils proxy antivirus appliance A new security appliance from Blue Coat Systems Inc. will allow companies to scan Web traffic to their network at a high speed, spotting viruses and malicious file downloads from Web pages or Web-based e-mail at the network perimeter, the company said on Monday. June 22, 5:27 a.m. PDT Onaro delivers SAN manager Onaro on Monday will roll out what company officials are billing as the industry's first predictive change management technology for SANs (storage area networks), designed to help storage administrators increase their effectiveness. June 21, 6:00 a.m. PDT ClearSight sheds a new light on network data Many network administrators feel right at home with standard network analysis tools, which show network traffic flows as lists of packet headers with packet payloads viewable in hex or ASCII. Many other network admins, however, do not. In an effort to ease network and application troubleshooting, ClearSight Networks offers ClearSight Analyzer, a new approach to network analysis. June 11, 3:00 p.m. PDT Lumeta chief scientist checks for network leaks with IP Sonar It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your packets are? Actually, if you run a network of any size, it doesn’t matter what time it is, because you probably don’t know where your packets are — unless of course you’ve checked your network for leaks. Bill Cheswick, chief scientist at Lumeta, says he knows how to find your leaks, and he’s inspired the software that will help you find them. May 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT Intel invests $2B in Ireland chip plant Intel will add additional manufacturing space to an existing wafer fabrication facility in Leixlip, Ireland, in order to build the next generation of its microprocessors, Intel announced Wednesday. May 20, 1:20 p.m. PDT Intel planning shift toward mobile designs for chips Over the next few years, Intel Corp. will shift its desktop processor architecture away from the power-hungry design that fuels the current Pentium 4 processor to a more power-efficient design that builds on the success of the Pentium M chip, sources familiar with Intel's plans said this week. May 6, 1:49 p.m. PDT BMC to buy Marimba for $239 million Management software maker BMC Software Inc. will spend $239 million to buy configuration software developer Marimba Inc., the companies announced Thursday. April 29, 7:16 a.m. PDT IBM boosts autonomic computing resources IBM on Tuesday will unveil its Autonomic Computing Zone, an online information resource featuring daily and weekly updates of information pertaining to autonomic computing. April 12, 5:00 p.m. PDT Intel: Itanium, Xeon to be interchangeable SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In a move to drive down the cost of systems built with its Itanium 2 microprocessor, Intel Corp. plans to make future versions of its Xeon and Itanium processors interchangeable at the socket level, the company confirmed on Tuesday. April 6, 2:05 p.m. PDT NAI on the block? Nextel off the clock I thought I was miserable because of my pitiful love life, but it turns out it’s really just occupational. According to The City & Guilds of London Institute, one in 10 IT workers is unhappy. (The other nine must have been playing Anarchy Online when the survey arrived.) Journalists rank even higher on the misery scale, so I’ve got a double dose. But this week’s gossip haul lifted my spirits. March 26, 3:00 p.m. PST Permeo oversees application access Permeo’s Application Security Gateway gives enterprise managers the means to provide pinpoint control over how internal users access external networks and how remote users access the network. With Permeo ASG, you no longer have to worry about whether users are running auctions on eBay or visiting porn sites. It also means that your applications can’t be hijacked to send sensitive data to places it shouldn’t go. March 5, 3:00 p.m. PST > Networking > Network management |
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