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Power-line networking groups connect standards Fast in-home networks over electrical wires got a boost on Friday as proponents of two rival technologies merged their approaches and said products already in the market will work together. Open source storage gets a virtual lift It has been a while since I last discussed Coraid, but two announcements the company made at LinuxWorld earlier this month have me thinking about AoE (ATA over Ethernet) these days.  August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Satinath Sarkar When Satinath Sarkar, CTO of Orion Technology talked to his friends 10 years ago about his specialty -- geographic information systems, or GIS -- he was met with quizzical looks. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT vendors submit management spec to W3C A group of IT vendors including Microsoft and IBM are backing a specification aimed at helping make it easier to manage services on a network by creating a common way to define applications, servers, and other IT assets. March 22, 9:21 a.m. PST DRM holds key to the digital home Web music stores have taken off with such gusto that now everyone wants to get in on the online media action, and the next battle ground is the digital movies and TV shows aimed at your living room. September 26, 3:55 p.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Russell Daniels As CTO and vice president of HP’s software business, Russell Daniels has a service-oriented perspective normally associated with applications -- rather than, say, his flagship OpenView product. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Scaling a federated identity infrastructure Different kinds of organizations approach the problem of scaling a federated identity implementation in different ways. When you’re federating with one or two partners, hammering out the legal arrangements and assigning risk and liability is done one partner at a time. Even if technology standards provide universal system interoperability, the lawyers are likely to approach each agreement as a one-off task. Let’s call this model “peer-to-peer federation.” March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST User-centric identity brings federation close to home Federation doesn’t have to be a behind-the-scenes interaction between big companies. Lately, an idea called “user-centric identity” has gained traction. It revolves around a few core principles, most notably the idea that users should be allowed to choose which identity credentials to present in response to an authentication or attribute request. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft expands IP licensing program Microsoft Corp. is expanding a program under which technologies it has developed in its research labs are either licensed to startup companies or offered in exchange for profit sharing or an ownership stake. January 30, 4:09 p.m. PST Subpoena of search engine records irks users The news that major search engine operators Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and America Online Inc. complied with a U.S. government subpoena that Google Inc. is resisting has prompted strong reactions from Internet users on both sides of the issue. January 20, 2:10 p.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 A first look at Windows Compute Cluster Server It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult, nowadays building a Linux-based cluster is generally quite simple. Commercial and open source clustering packages abound with features, open protocols, and streamlined installs. No surprise, then, that Microsoft wants a piece of this potentially lucrative market. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Why data synchronization still matters The physics of data management used to dictate that your data could be either consistent or highly available but never both at the same time. The discipline of data synchronization sits uncomfortably on the horns of this Heisenbergian dilemma. As times change, though, so do the trade-offs associated with synchronization and its uses. November 30, 3:00 a.m. PST New processes for Thomson Prometric "The biggest challenge we've faced in creating an SOA has been identifying exactly what a service is," says Christopher Crowhurst, vice president and chief architect at Thomson Learning. "Understanding what the business is doing, converting that to a set of services, and working out how to expose those services in a granular, extensible way so that you're not constantly breaking consumers' interfaces -- we learned that many people just can't do it." November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST WLAN quality-of-service specification approved A specification that could improve voice and video on wireless LANs has received approval from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ending a long standards-setting process but possibly setting the stage for more work on the problem. October 5, 4:23 a.m. PDT Effective description, discovery, and integration The Rodney Dangerfield of Web services standards is clearly Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. UDDI don't get no respect. Its original conception -- a global e-marketplace for services -- looks, for now, like a dot-com-era fantasy. October 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT VeriSign develops tools for wireless roaming Mobile users typically move among multiple networks: a wired DSL connection at home, a Wi-Fi hot spot at the airport, a landline connection at a hotel, and 3G service in between. Today, users must use a connection manager to log off one service and log on to another manually. Future smart clients, however, will be able to detect available networks and switch among them based on which networks are fastest, which are cheapest, and which are most secure for business use. September 22, 1:00 p.m. PDT Wireless broadband's long and winding road First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data technology are fulfilling the technology’s promise. Sales and field forces can connect to the Internet and corporate applications from virtually anywhere, network speeds are reasonable, and deploying the technology requires only minimal IT investment. September 22, 1:00 p.m. PDT 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 NSF proposes next-generation Internet WASHINGTON - The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed a next-generation Internet with built-in security and functionality that connects all kinds of devices, with researchers challenging the government agency to look at the Internet as a "clean slate." August 29, 2:36 p.m. PDT Open source directory With more and more companies investigating capabilities such as identity management, SSO (single sign-on), and automated provisioning, directory services are fast becoming a vital component of network infrastructures. So far, however, no open source project has gained as much traction in this area as Apache enjoys in the Web server market. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Cisco mulls acquiring Nokia, report says Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. is interested in acquiring Nokia Corp., the world largest manufacturer of mobile phones, according to several media reports citing the Sunday Business newspaper. August 8, 3:58 a.m. PDT Building the intelligent network The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Servers applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. It’s time for the network infrastructure itself to add some smarts. After all, when it comes to intelligence, the real beauty of the network is that it touches everything. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Verisign buys security researcher iDefense for $40M Looking to flesh out its line of managed security services products, VeriSign has snapped up network security researcher iDefense. The $40 million cash acquisition was completed Wednesday, according to VeriSign. July 14, 4:57 a.m. PDT Investigators link Cisco hack to other activities A theft of computer source code from Cisco Systems, reported a year ago, has led to a wide-ranging investigation of potential criminal activity involving multiple server break-ins in several countries, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). May 10, 9:44 a.m. PDT FCC adopts new network-sharing rules WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday adopted new rules about what parts of incumbent telephone carrier networks must be shared with competitors, backtracking on an earlier decision forcing incumbents to share local switching facilities in the residential market. December 15, 2:05 p.m. PST Enabling the future of the phone In the early days of the telephone, users had to put up with multiple, incompatible phone networks, which was not only inconvenient but costly. People often needed two or more phones on their desks to be able to reach other telephone owners, and redundant networks of telephone poles darkened the skies over major American cities. December 10, 3:00 p.m. PST IPv6 marches forward This just in from the strange-but-true-deployments department: Hundreds of cows and taxicabs in Japan have their own unique IP addresses. December 10, 3:00 p.m. PST Measuring change management initiatives takes initiative Cynics may say that the field of change management is so vast that the term is practically useless. Yet, if the sun is always shining behind the clouds, one can credit effective change management with improved operational efficiencies and higher customer satisfaction — at least that’s the boardroom consensus. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST A place at the table Today’s reality of no American-made cell phones, or televisions, or air conditioners -- need I go on? -- points to an even larger trend than the globalization of world markets. The countries that make these and many other products, such as China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Mexico, to name a few, now say they want a place at the table when global economic powers meet to set technology standards. They understand that, somewhere down the road, technology has an economic impact. September 24, 3:00 p.m. PDT EV-DO lights up mobile data The light at the end of the tunnel to 3G mobile data services in the U.S. is getting brighter as technology that builds on Code Division Multiple Access networks comes into view. August 2, 4:54 a.m. PDT Lawsuit questions IBM's ownership of EPAL standard A lawsuit filed against IBM Corp. this week in a Canadian court calls into question IBM's ownership of EPAL (Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language), a programming language for creating data privacy policies on computer networks. June 10, 10:22 a.m. PDT Web services find way to devices Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Lexmark International Inc. and Ricoh Co. Ltd. on Tuesday detailed new Web services technology designed to make it easier for users to connect devices such as printers, digital cameras and digital music players over a network. May 5, 4:49 a.m. PDT Interview: The changing politics of grid Grid computing is a noteworthy topic, particularly this week, with formation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and others. April 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT Grid vendors launch interoperability effort Several of the IT industry's biggest vendors have formed a group called the Enterprise Grid Alliance to promote grid computing in the enterprise. Their goal is to boost the adoption of grid computing by hammering out technology specifications that allow customers to mix and match products from a variety of suppliers. April 20, 8:56 a.m. PDT Devices get smart Of all the microprocessors and chips sold in the world today, only 2 percent are for traditional servers, desktops, laptops, and mainframes. The other 98 percent are in devices as divergent as refrigerators and telecom switches. April 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT Cybersecurity task force sparks debate WASHINGTON - A cybersecurity task force convened by a U.S. House subcommittee chairman released a series of recommendations this week, but some of the results created rifts between IT vendors and security advocates, including a request to allow IT purchasers to band together to dictate security standards to vendors. April 9, 1:22 p.m. PDT Global standards are key, Intel CEO tells Chinese execs Amidst controversy over Chinese efforts to impose a local standard for wireless networks, Craig Barrett, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel Corp., stressed the importance of international standards during a speech to Chinese government officials and business executives, the company said. April 8, 4:36 a.m. PDT Sun settles litigation with Microsoft; names Schwartz president Sun Microsystems Inc. has entered into a "broad cooperation agreement" with Microsoft Corp. and settled all outstanding litigation, it said Friday. The company also announced that it has promoted its software head Jonathan Schwartz as the company's new president and chief operating officer. April 2, 5:30 a.m. PST > Networking > Standards |
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