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IT at Beijing Olympic Games to cost $400 million The price tag for IT and communications at the world's biggest sporting event will run to around $400 million and use the expertise of thousands of IT managers and engineers. Spirent melds voice, video, and data into networking test gear We’ve been doing network-switch testing for more than 10 years now, and the concept of a triple-play test (voice, video, and data) has been a part of our plans from the early days of ATM OC-12 through Gigabit Ethernet’s birth and now to 10 Gig.  July 10, 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 Akimbi makes virtual labs real Akimbi Slingshot is one of several products in a nascent product category called virtual lab automation. Slingshot and other tools, such as Surgient’s Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS), enable IT test sites to make good use of virtualization technologies by simplifying the process of configuring, deploying, capturing, and simultaneously running multiple VMs. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stupid user tricks: Eleven IT horror stories No matter how hard we pray, how many chickens we sacrifice, how often we chant naked by moonlight, every network is at one time or other exposed to the ultimate technology risk: users. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT When starting a new branch office, don't forget the wiring One of the most overlooked aspects of remote-office builds is the wiring. Servers, racks, power, and cooling should top the list, but never assume that the building’s wiring is up to par. Many corporate office parks have been around since the days of Cat 3 cabling and are still using that copper for in-building transit, demarc extensions, and even LAN connections within office suites. Obviously, you’re not going to be happy with network performance if every patch panel is Cat 3, although you can ride phones on it if you must. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Shunra's network-testing crystal ball gets better For IT, playing the “what if” game to predict how a new CRM application would behave over the corporate intranet used to require a stack of equipment and load of patience. With Version 4.0 of Shunra Virtual Enterprise (formerly Shunra Storm) much of the tedious trial and error is handled for the tester. March 31, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco to let partner software, services bloom Cisco Systems wants its channel partners to run off with everything it learns about providing professional services. March 15, 4:11 a.m. PST Companies to build IPv6 test center Two companies involved in advancing the next-generation Internet have announced a partnership to create a large IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) test center near Washington, D.C. December 8, 2:26 p.m. PST VMware sends in the clones to ease testing IT professionals are constantly pressed to do more with less and to do it faster. The latest version of VMware Workstation proves a valuable tool in achieving that evasive goal. With it, administrators have the ability to test multiple images for desktop and laptop deployment simultaneously, or to test every code change to an application sequentially to see which has problems, or to test myriad Microsoft security updates before deploying them on mission-critical servers faster and more easily than ever before. August 22, 4:00 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 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 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 The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid We all like to think we learn from mistakes, whether our own or others’. So in theory, the more serious bloopers you know about, the less likely you are to be under the bright light of interrogation, explaining how you managed to screw up big-time. That’s why we put out an all-points bulletin to IT managers and vendors everywhere: For the good of humanity, tell us about the gotchas that have gotten you, so others can avoid them. November 19, 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 The ever-changing network It could be called the “ignomoment;” the split second following a definitive action when you realize you've just made a tragic mistake. For network administrators, this means the difference between going home at 5 p.m. or 5 a.m. The truth is, despite incidents of careless backhoe drivers pulling up fiber bundles or hurricanes bringing down the power lines, administrator error is the most common reason that a network fails. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST HP adds more tools to on-demand product line Looking to buttress its on-demand computing strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week plans to announce two OpenView management tools at a conference for users of its software products. June 14, 5:20 p.m. PDT Skybox expands security product support BOSTON - Skybox Security Inc. said it was releasing a new version of its Skybox View Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) product on Monday at the Computer Security Institute's Netsec 2004 conference in San Francisco. June 14, 10:13 a.m. PDT Xgig peers inside SANs Investing in diagnostic tools for networked storage bears several benefits. With the proper tools, you can easily shorten the time it takes to get to the root of performance problems in a complex storage infrastructure. Moreover, even when nothing is broken, a good diagnostic tool can provide a better understanding of your SAN’s inner workings, knowledge that can help you improve the performance and resilience of your storage networks over the long haul. April 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Researchers set new Internet2 speed record In what is billed as another step toward a higher-bandwidth Internet, a team of researchers has set a new data transmission speed record over the Abilene Network, the Internet2 backbone. April 20, 1:24 p.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 Riverbed's Steelhead swims through WAN bottlenecks IT managers are always being asked to do more with less. When it comes to WAN links, less is sometimes all you have to work with. The Steelhead 2000 WAN acceleration appliance from Riverbed Technology is part file cache, part proxy, and part TCP optimization, providing a unique and extremely effective way of reducing the time spent transferring files from one office to another. In addition, the Steelhead is easy to install, and it does not require any LAN/WAN re-engineering. But like other WAN acceleration appliances, a unit must be installed on each end of your WAN link. April 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT MCI boosts secure remote access MCI announced plans for a host of new security features and a new partnership on Tuesday that it said will provide more security for mobile and remote workers. April 6, 10:11 a.m. PDT APM under the microscope APM (application performance management) is a lot like exercise: Everyone knows they need it, but only a fraction practice it consistently, citing high costs and lengthy deployment times as excuses. February 13, 3:00 p.m. PST > Networking |
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