IT Asked and Answered Ron Nutter helps a paraplegic IT pro figure out his next steps in getting a job. Network World Community Edward Haletky details how to set up virtual networking in a DMZ. Keatron Evans says it's time to get back to security basics. Michael Morris begins a discussion of his company's new Cisco-based data center. Scott Hogg looks at IPv6 in Cisco IPS ver. 6.2. Avner Izhar explains important CLI info for gauging the health of your network. Dennis Hartmann looks at signalling in QoS application classes. Brandon Carroll explains getting started with CCNA wireless certification. Wendell Odom translates the theory and practice of OSPF. Jeff Doyle ponders how to explain IT stuff to CFOs. Susan Hanley discusses her journey through Dell customer support. Randy Muller discusses getting certified for Office Communication Server 2007 R2. Brian Egler lists ten top SQL Server 2008 features. Mitchell Ashley wonders if Windows 7 will turn the tide toward 64-bit computing. Glenn Weadock, though, wonders if Windows 7 is another Vista. Jason Meserve considers what cloud providers could learn from the stupid way Flickr terminates accounts. John Brandon asks: Google versus Yahoo: Who will win? In depth The 7 dirty secrets of the security industry Do you ever get the feeling your security providers are failing to tell you the whole truth? We entrust the industry to protect us from unacceptable risk. But we must confront the underlying truth: The goal of the security market is to make money. More news Get ready for high-def voice High-definition voice -- a rarity in today's business networks -- is becoming more common, so it makes sense for corporate telephony executives to figure out now how they will make the transition, experts say. State's plan to reprogram huge spectrum asset faces challenges South Carolina wants to repurpose a big chunk of long-dormant spectrum, enough to offer high-bandwidth broadband services from border to border. But the plan faces challenges in the economy, the legislature, and broadband advocates. With economic slump, concerns rise over data theft Is the worsening economic situation going to turn some employees into data thieves? IT pay takes a hit Pay for noncertified IT skills, which has been consistently on the rise since mid-2004, began to decline in the last quarter of 2008, research shows. Disk-drive encryption gets boost from Opal standards effort The Opal industry-standards effort unveiled this week by the Trusted Computing Group should prove a boon to information technology professionals exploring desktop encryption options. Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments VMOps' cloud-computing infrastructure stack, built to be like "EC2 in a box," includes a hardened version of the Xen hypervisor plus storage and network virtualization. Venture investments plummet for seed-phase network startups Investors gave $27 million to startup and seed companies in the networking space in Q4 2008, a fraction of previous investment levels. |
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