App performance in show spotlight
A handful of vendors are scheduled to air products this week designed to give companies a better read on application performance
by aggregating network and system management data.
IP storage standard set to roll
The long-delayed iSCSI standard is set to gain Internet Engineering Task Force approval within weeks, which means it's 'put
up or shut up' time for vendors that have cited its incompleteness as justification for failing to support the IP storage
specification in their arrays.
Users want Lotus to lift the fog
Lotus' Domino customers and business partners want a clear explanation of the product's future and how it ultimately will
be integrated with IBM's application server and database, and they want specific directions at this week's annual Lotusphere
conference.
Top ISP Report
Our monthly report on the best dial-up ISPs.
Navy set to navigate with wireless LANs
Wireless LANs are being installed on Navy warships to free up manpower, reduce crew sizes and improve monitoring of a range
of mechanical and electrical systems
Grid vendors target corporate applications
Traditionally associated with scientific and technical applications, grid computing is making its first forays into corporate
networks as a way to increase utilization of existing corporate systems and networks.
Spam: New year, same old story
It's a new year, but unfortunately the spam story is getting worse
WorldCom touts real-time apps monitoring
WorldCom is offering enhancements to its Private IP service that lets users set up application-specific monitoring and view
VPN performance statistics in real time
M&A slow in 2002
Activity could pick up slightly in 2003
Metromedia serves up high-speed 'Net plan
Optical infrastructure provider Metromedia Fiber Network has begun targeting businesses with very high Internet bandwidth
demands through the launch of a Gigabit Ethernet Internet service.
Cisco betting big on wireless LANs
Cisco has a lot riding on Bill Rossi, head of its wireless network unit. Rossi recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor
John Cox about Cisco's plans.
Users tout Linux savings
Out with the old - as in Unix - and in with the new - Linux - was the mantra last week at the LinuxWorld Expo. Executives
from Wall Street, the U.S. government and the Fortune 500 talked up open source software as a cost-cutting tool for corporate
networks.
Microsoft delivers awaited CRM software
After two years of development - and a year of speculation and posturing by the competition - Microsoft CRM has hit the streets.
It might lag behind the competition in terms of functionality, but industry watchers expect that gap to narrow in future releases.
Buy helps Microsoft's real-time plans
Microsoft last week made a serious move to boost its development of a real-time communications platform and lead a major shake-up
of the conferencing market.
Sprint to roll out IP migration options
Sprint intends to introduce three services this week that it says will offer frame relay and private-line customers a smoother,
less-expensive migration path to IP.
Cut-rate DSL on the way?
Comnet 2003: Celite Systems to debut DSL gear, Foundry to announce switches; Adtran to roll out routers.
ISS reins in security management
Internet Security Systems last week reinforced its security management package to let it manage and correlate information
about security events from across its family of intrusion-detection and vulnerability-assessment products
News briefs
Cisco files suit against Huawei; acquires Okena. Plus news from Microsoft, AT&T and XO.
Tivoli VP talks storage
Laura Sanders on how Tivoli storage offerings are positioned from IBM's, the company's acquisitions and where she thinks the
storage arena is going
NFL Films brings VoIP to the Super Bowl
How NFL Films uses convergence to ease its annual Super Bowl logistical nightmare
Infrastructure briefs
News from Perabit Networks, HP and Brocade
Patently prolific
Big Blue was the leading patent producer in 2002 by almost 1,400 over the second-most productive company, Canon Kabushiki
Kaisha, which earned 1,893 patents, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Enterprise Applications briefs
News from PKWare, DataPower and Wily Technology
Microsoft enhances productivity applications
Microsoft enhances productivity apps
Service Provider briefs
SBC eyes long distance in Michigan and Nevada; Cogent launches new 'Net service
