| Scary tech stories: How dangerous user behavior puts networks at risk, 12/10/07 As CIO at Bunker Hill Community College, Bret Moeller embraces students experimenting with technology as part of their education, but he'd prefer if their independent studies didn't involve hacking into the college's network. Ch-Ch-Chatting with the South Pole's IT manager, 12/11/07 From the start, Henry Malmgren was determined to get to the South Pole. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1998 with a degree in MIS he applied for a job in the Antarctic every year before NSF contractor Raytheon finally hired him as a network engineer in 2001. Since then he has alternated between the Denver headquarters and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, spending two summers and two winters there before finally working his way up to IT manager. Staying over is a commitment: Once the winter starts, there's no way to get in and out of the base until summer begins eight to nine months later. "I thought I would just do this for a single season, but somehow it always seemed too easy to keep coming back," he says. IT managers fight to keep up with ESX patches, 12/10/07 An increasingly large number of patches are being issued for VMware's ESX Server, and system administrators could be struggling to keep up, so says a virtualization blog site Virtualization.info. Security policies? Workers ignore them, survey says, 12/06/07 It's one thing to have a company-wide information security policy in place. But it's a whole different ball game to get employees to actually follow the policies -- even those that are IT types. Delivering customer happiness through operational BI, 12/06/07 Visitors to the eCourier Web site are greeted with the words "How happy are you? Take the eCourier happy test today!" Those words and the playful purple Web site represent the company's customer satisfaction focus. And a key for the company in achieving that happiness is through its focus on operational business intelligence. The long slog to Cisco certs Trainer Wendell Odom asks: Are you putting in the miles to get your Cisco cert? What it takes to sail through the CCIE lab exam CCIE Rus Healy continues his series on acing the CCIE lab exam. The Network World IT Buyer's Guides provide comprehensive, detailed information on how to select, test, buy and deploy thousands of network and IT products. The new Network World IT Buyer's Guides offer even more features than before, here's just one that's worth checking out: NETWORK MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT | 
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