Building a better Mouse Trap

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Sony Learn how to Develop a Winning Storage Strategy Companies need a well-designed data back-up, recovery and archiving plan to best respond to disasters and comply with regulations. Discover how to successfully meet this goal with the powerful combination of tape and disk storage products.Download this Special Brief now for more details. Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 10/04/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEOS: Building a better Mouse Trap Keith brings you two items to make business travel a little easier: The Digital Foci Pocket Album for showing of pictures of the family and the Belkin Mouse trap for carrying your gear and improved "mousing." 5 cool technologies from day 2 of DEMOfall07 Keith showcases five companies that stood out on day 2 of DEMOfall07: 360desktop, kannuu, Check Point, MuseStorm and SpaceTime. Network World's Network Infrastructure Buyer's Guide Find the right infrastructure products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information in over 20 specific network gear market segments will help you quickly pinpoint what you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go the Buyer's Guide now. * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMN: More cool stuff from start-ups at DEMOfall07 This week I’m continuing the roundup of some cool start-ups from DEMOfall07 in San Diego. * LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST: Twisting in a Web 2.0 world at DEMOfall07 Jason and Keith take the show on the road to DEMOfall07 in San Diego to bring you their favorite 10 demonstrators and regal you with tales of holding a Super Bowl ring. (53:04) * LATEST FROM NETWORK WORLD PANORAMA: Do geeks make better entrepreneurs? A new survey from CDW suggests that tech-savvy entrepreneurs (who self-identify as 'total geeks') were likely to be more successful than non-tech-savvy small business owners. Keith Shaw speaks with Brad Purl from CDW on why tech-savvy business owners tend to succeed, and offers tips on how "geeks" can get ahead in small business. Tackling configuration management Network change and configuration management technologies help automate the manual processes of collecting, comparing and updating configuration data across myriad network and security devices. And as network environments grew more complex and heterogeneous over the years, staying on top of all the changes and keeping information up-to-date became an overwhelming feat for network managers. AlterPoint CEO Scott Harmon joins Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie to explain just how his company can help network managers move from tracking disparate configurations to implementing network governance policies. (15:32) * LATEST COOL TOOL BLOGS: DEMOfall07 Day 1 videos Day 1 of DEMOfall produced a number of interesting new companies, and we've got the videos to help you catch up on the best of Day 1.

MOST-READ REVIEWS FOR THE PAST YEAR: (Registration no longer required!) 1. NAC alternatives hit the mark 2. WAN acceleration offers huge payoff 3. Aruba conquers challenge of Wi-Fi scalability 4. Cisco hits on firewall/VPN, misses on ease of use 5. IP PBXs built on open source show promise 6. Vista security needs admin attention 7. Backup standbys show their strength 8. Is Microsoft OCS your next IP PBX? 9. Open source management tools score big 10. Open source Quagga router acceptable

Contact the author: Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter and is the Programming Director at Network World, responsible for the multimedia strategy for the Web site. This newsletter is sponsored by Sony Learn how to Develop a Winning Storage Strategy Companies need a well-designed data back-up, recovery and archiving plan to best respond to disasters and comply with regulations. Discover how to successfully meet this goal with the powerful combination of tape and disk storage products.Download this Special Brief now for more details. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007