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2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Carl Snyder Sometimes, the process is the product. Employing a blueprint drawn from 26 years of IT experience – along with best practices outlined in the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) – Carl Snyder already has reaped success during his brief tenure as director of global IT infrastructure and operations at Tellabs. 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 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 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 Researchers: Management apps could pose security risk Insecure coding and loose deployments of enterprise management applications could turn anti-virus, patch management and systems management applications into powerful and malicious botnets, according to research presented at the Black Hat Briefings Conference in Las Vegas. August 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Franchising the energy web I’m already so depressed about the sorry state of our planet’s energy systems that I’m afraid Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth would just send me over the edge. Oh, I’ll probably relent and go see the movie, but in my case the ex-Veep will be preaching to the choir. I don’t need to be convinced any more than I already am that we’re in for a rough ride. What I need, instead, are hopeful signs that we’ll be able to engineer our way out of the mess we’re in. June 21, 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 NAS 6 automates and controls Opsware NAS (network automation system), formerly Rendition TrueControl, originally served as a sort of Star Trek Universal Language Translator for network devices, providing a single interface for configuring switches and routers from virtually any vendor across a large network. Today automation is still the watchword, but the emphasis has shifted to policy compliance and control: Mass configurability is nice, but preventing unauthorized changes is necessary. May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Networking > Network management |
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