News podcast: Network World 360 Nortel enterprise customers will be able to buy the company's current line of products for 12 to 18 months after Avaya officially takes ownership of Nortel's enterprise division that it won at auction for $900 million. Also, a new security report says companies appear to be much slower in patching applications than operating systems, even though attackers are mainly targeting vulnerabilities in applications. (5:22) Can mainframe use really grow? Many IBM mainframe users reported plan another wave of investments in the System z platform over the next 25 years. Businesses turn to DNS service to filter the Web For National Veterinary Associates, the decision to block the Web was sealed with a virus. Apple betrays the iPhone's business hopes Apple's fix of a security hole reveals a long-simmering flaw and makes many iPhones suddenly incompatible with Exchange Company hosting Joe Wilson fundraising site recovers from DDoS attack A company providing online payment-processing services for U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C) is back online after being disrupted by a distributed denial-of service attack over the weekend. New York Times tricked into serving scareware ad Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department into placing a malicious ad for fake antivirus software on the NYTimes.com Web site over the weekend, the company confirmed Monday. Do Internet micropayments emit enough of a siren song? Google is offering a new micropayment scheme that purportedly will help newspapers. But will it really? Recession hasn't slowed global Internet traffic Not even the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression could slow the ongoing explosion of traffic over international Internet connections, and service providers are still building to accommodate it. Packet loss tolerance A reader asks: What is the level of tolerance on a 100 Mbps LAN with MM fiber optics? Ron Nutter answers. Got a networking question? Ask our experts. I don't see switches A reader asks: I can use AppCritial to analyze the network and this application will find routers and servers but I have noticed that it doesn't see the switches, is there any way to change parameters so it detects every devices within the specified path? Ron Nutter answers. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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