TECHWEB TODAY: NETWORKING Friday, October 1, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Friday Networking Feature: It's A Small Networking World 2. Networking News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. PeopleSoft Ousts Conway 4. White House Cybersecurity Chief Unexpectedly Quits 5. Report: Manufacturing Firms To Boost Outsourcing 6. Click Fraud Rises With Online Ad Spending Other News This Week 7. Search And Ye Shall Find. . .IBM? 8. Microsoft, EU Clash Over Antitrust Order 9. Multi-faceted TECHXNY Show Opens Tuesday 10. Records Of Dot.Com Roadkill To Be Saved For Posterity ------- Advertisement ------------------- Forget track-based backup. VXA Packet Technology from Exabyte reads and writes data in digital packets, giving you superior restore integrity, faster transfer speeds and scalable capacity. VXA Packet Technology is the new standard in tape backup and restore. Learn more at http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Cfli0AA ----------------------------------------- 1. FRIDAY NETWORKING FEATURE: It's A Small Networking World Networking companies have been releasing a blizzard of new products and services targeted at the fast-growing small and medium-sized business market. If you're an SMB, you're living in golden times. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3k0AO 2. NETWORKING NEWS OF THE WEEK Lucent, Riverstone Partner On Ethernet Nets For Providers Also announce deal to provide Spain's Telefonica with network to deliver video and Internet services over DSL. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Coqr0AX Cisco Targets SMBs With New Switches And Software Products are aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses deploy converged voice, video, and data networks. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0CoLA0A6 Survey: AT&T Big Winner In Providing VPN Services Forrester finds 90% of companies are using VPN services, and 22% of them use AT&T. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0CogI0Ag Firms Release SAN Management Wizard For SMBs Joint effort is aimed at helping drive SAN technologies in the small and midrange business market. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0CoWG0AO Linksys Unveils Home Networking Strategy Executives touted a home networking strategy encompassing new products and services designed to help drive the adoption of consumer VoIP. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3l0AP Network Physics Releases Distributed Network Intelligence Tool NetSensory Enterprise Architecture is targeted at providing global applications infrastructure visibility, troubleshooting, and reporting. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3m0AQ ------- Advertisement ------------------- Forget track-based backup. VXA Packet Technology from Exabyte reads and writes data in digital packets, giving you superior restore integrity, faster transfer speeds and scalable capacity. VXA Packet Technology is the new standard in tape backup and restore. Learn more at http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Cfli0AA ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. PeopleSoft Ousts Conway In a surprise move, PeopleSoft 'terminates' Conway as president and CEO. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3n0AR 4. White House Cybersecurity Chief Unexpectedly Quits Amit Yoran was frustrated over what he saw as a lack of attention paid to computer security issues within the agency. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3o0AS 5. Report: Manufacturing Firms To Boost Outsourcing Manufacturing companies are planning for healthy increases in 2005, led by a projected 9.3 percent increase of outsourcing budgets. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co2P0Au 6. Click Fraud Rises With Online Ad Spending With online advertising on the upswing, advertisers confront rising pay-per-click charges for search marketing amid growing concerns about click fraud. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Co3p0AT OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. Search And Ye Shall Find. . .IBM? The battle over consumer-based search engines continues among the regular cast of characters, but it's IBM that might have the killer search app for the enterprise. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Coqp0AV 8. Microsoft, EU Clash Over Antitrust Order Microsoft told a European Union court Thursday that it would suffer irreparable harm if forced to reveal more of its software code to rivals. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0Con60AU 9. Multi-faceted TECHXNY Show Opens Tuesday When the multi-faceted TECHXNY show gets under way in New York City next week, consumers and IT professionals alike will be able to delve into issues currently challenging IT managers. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejns0GpvDH0G4V0CoK80Av 10. 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