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Web firewalls trumping other options as PCI deadline nears
Web firewalls are proving more popular than application security as the deadline for compliance with PCI Section 6.6 closes in. Analysts, however, ask if the advantages of that approach extend beyond mere convenience. Read more...

ISPs experimenting with new P2P controls

Red Hat Summit panel: Who 'won' the OOXML battle?

Microsoft scoops up TV ad-placement company

Telepresence system takes aim at the low end

EU competition chief advocates open standards

Cisco to unveil alliance Monday for WiMax stimulation

New Cisco Systems client/server messaging protocol announced

Study: Comcast, Cox slowing P2P traffic around the clock

WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin

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Opinion: New happenings in network virtualization
Several interesting technologies have emerged over the past six months to approach network virtualization issues from a variety of perspectives and allow, for example, administrators to easily configure a new virtual machine environment and drop it on any system that meets their needs.

Opinion: Get ready for these 6 game-changing technologies
Hype and promises abound in the IT world, but these six breakthroughs really will change your life, says author and former IT manager John Brandon.

Opinion: InfiniBand answers consolidation multiple-choice questions
As companies consolidate and virtualize multiple physical servers onto one, they are encountering a physical limitation in the number of expansion slots available on the server. InfiniBand offers the additional bandwidth needed to address throughput limitations.

Skype video chats
A look at how Skype VoIP software, combined with Logitech webcams, can provide videoconferencing.

The Cisco-Microsoft battle for unified communications
Microsoft product falls short on a number of issues that are going to be important to larger corporations, but it also has a lot of factors going its way in its war with Cisco.

'America's Most Wired College' dives in to 802.11n wireless networking
Despite the draft status of the 802.11n wireless networking standard, Morrisville State College has taken the full plunge into the technology as it maintains its reputation for innovation.

Why Skype and Vonage must die
Opinion: Mark Gibbs says quality, support and integration issues hamper these 'closed' communications systems and the industry should move to open, standards-based technologies.

IPv6: Dual stack where you can; tunnel where you must
In preparation to a full migration to IPv6, Scott Hogg recommends using dual-stack strategies when possible and -- if necessary -- using tunnels to carry one protocol inside the other.

Network evolution -- services-centric networking
Vendors have begun to release products that are taking the next steps in the evolution to true services-centric networking.

Ethernet Alliance shepherds venerable standard through new tech frontiers
The nonprofit organization is working to guide the 30-year-old networking standard into areas such as GPS, Wi-Fi, avionics and data center backplane.

All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop. Here's how.
Is Microsoft's Golden Age over? What are Gates' most memorable quotes? Find out in Computerworld's complete coverage of the end of the Bill Gates era at Microsoft.
There are some things your CIO definitely doesn't want to hear. Also don't miss the flipside, Five things you should always tell your boss.
With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be.
Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.
Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
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Troubleshooting Remote Site Networks - Best Practices
Management and remote site employees expect the same level of network service as the headquarters site. However, when IT staff are faced with limited resources to support remote site networks, often the applications, services and performance at those sites is not as robust as the headquarters site. See how to deliver a high level of network service at remote sites using the best practices outlined in this white paper.

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Determining the cause of poor application performance
Are users constantly complaining that your network is too slow? Or that they can’t connect or can't stay connected? Are network applications hanging and slowing productivity? Do you spend way too much time trying to isolate the source of the problem and to prove that often the issue isn't the network at all but the application? In this on demand webcast, learn best practices and common root causes of application problems using case studies and live network traffic.

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