Year: 2006

  • Remote Workers Still Imperil Enterprise Security

    Remote Workers Still Imperil Enterprise Security

    Matt Hines

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    Remote workers continue to expose their employers to a wide range of IT threats by using poor laptop etiquette and connecting to corporate systems using non-trusted wireless connections, according to a new report sponsored by Cisco Systems. In a study conducted for Cisco by InsightExpress, based in Stamford, Conn., researchers interviewed 1,000 remote workers in… Read more

  • Gartner: Consumer Tech Is Next Wave of Enterprise IT

    Gartner: Consumer Tech Is Next Wave of Enterprise IT

    Stan Gibson

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—Consumer technology will overtake corporations, and IT professionals need to get in front of that technology wave, Gartner analysts told attendees at the annual Symposium and IT Expo here. A plethora of consumer technologies, ranging from podcasting to blogging, VOIP (voice over IP) and video on demand, will penetrate the enterprise workplace by the… Read more

  • Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step … Backward?

    Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step … Backward?

    Jim Rapoza

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    Firefox 2.0 moved closer to its official launch with the recent availability of Release Candidate 2 of the popular open-source Web browser. And while Firefox RC2 differs little from RC1 and the previous betas that eWEEK Labs has reviewed, a couple of small—and, in our opinion, negative—changes jumped out during initial tests of this release.… Read more

  • Networking’s Mojo Returns

    Networking’s Mojo Returns

    Larry Dignan

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    The network is back. For the network administrators in the room, that statement may not be much of a shocker. But for other casual observers—including me—the networking industry hasn’t been terribly exciting ever since Cisco Systems was briefly the most valuable company in the world during the dot-com boom. Since then, networking overall has been,… Read more

  • Juniper Updates WXC Line

    Juniper Updates WXC Line

    Paula Musich

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    Juniper Networks and Silver Peak Systems are looking to grow their offerings in the application acceleration space. Juniper on Oct. 16 will address the need to scale deployments of its WXC line of application acceleration appliances by introducing a new high-end version and an update to the line’s operating system software. The WXC 590 is… Read more

  • Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration

    Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration

    Paula Musich

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    Technology executives are centralizing data while their employees are dispersing far and wide. They’re all waiting anxiously for the WAN to deliver hot applications—fast—to mobile workers hankering for performance. Technology managers and vendors are racing to oblige. This perfect storm of needs—including more mobile workers, the Webification of software, speedier networks and office consolidation—is driving… Read more