Network Computing Report #429
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Monday, November 21, 2005

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In This Issue:
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1) 20 Years Of Windows
     - The Twentieth Anniversary of Microsoft Windows
     - The Making Of Windows 1.0
     - 20 Years Of Windows Releases
     - Windows Timeline
     - The Future Of Windows
2) Tape Encryption Special
     - Market Analysis: Tape Encryption
     - Review: Tape Encryption Devices: Host-based vs. Appliance
     - TechQuiz: Data Encryption
3) Emerging Enterprise How-Tos
     - Planning Your SMB's 2006 IT Spending
     - Security
     - Desktop Management
4) Online Only!
     - Special Coverage: IP4IT Conference
     - New! Network Computing Reports
     - Protect Yourself Against Rogue Wireless Access Points
     - Secured Wireless Offers Enterprises More Than Just Peace of Mind
     - Internet Explorer 7: Features Revealed
     - Microsoft Vista October CTP Pre-Beta 2
5) Audio/Visual Department
     - NWC Audio/Visual Dept.:
       - CEO Minute: Interview with Juniper's Scott Kriens
       - Video Interview: AT&T's Hossein Eslambolchi
       - Video Interview: Barracuda Networks' Dean Drako
     - Time for The News Show
6) Reviews and How-Tos
     - Sneak Preview: 3Com Switch 5500G-EI
     - Sneak Preview: Airwave Management Platform 4.0
     - Centerfold: Olympic IT Team Seeks Gold Security Standard
     - Storage Pipeline, Data Compression
7) Reader Reverb
     - Last Mile: An IT Thanksgiving
     - Top 11: IT Technologies on Gilligan's Deserted Island
     - The Go-To Geek!
     - Rechristen the Internet
     - NWC Channels
8) Calling All Readers
     - Network Computing Presents the Building, Deploying and Securing 
Training
        Series
     - Contact Center Performance Management Survey: Raising the 
Maturity
        Level of Customer Contact Centers
     - TechWeb's 2nd Annual Blog-X Awards
9) The Daily Blog
     - A Look at OATH
     - A Match Made in Heaven?
10) Opinion
     - Down to Business: Don't Fear Commoditization
     - BuzzCut: Microsoft, Cisco Take Aim at NAT
     - BuzzCut: Consortium to Protect Linux Vendors, Users From Patent
        Lawsuits
     - FUDBusters: E-Mail: More Time-Waster Than Timesaver
11) Your Monday IT Briefing
     - First Look: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1
     - Review: PC-cillin Internet Security 2006
     - Ten 10 Tips for Network Security
     - Applying Security to Web Servers
     - Integration: The New Key to Competitive Excellence
12) Coming Events
     - Privacy and Compliance Regulations: Is Your Business Liable?
     - Setting the Standard: A Formal Definition of the Enterprise 
Service Bus
     - Sarbanes Oxley and the Role of IT Asset Management
13) CMP MarketPlace
14) Subscription Information

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on
Monday, November 28, 2005.


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1) 20 Years Of Windows
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By George Jones, Desktop Pipeline

a) The Twentieth Anniversary of Microsoft Windows
November 20 marks the twentieth anniversary of Microsoft Windows. We 
take
a look back at the highs and lows of the most popular, vilified, and
controversial OS in the world.
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b) The Making Of Windows 1.0
Think Microsoft's development and release of Windows 1.0 was smooth? 
Think
again.
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c) 20 Years Of Windows Releases
Take a trip down memory lane with Windows' best and worst moments.
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d) Windows Timeline
An outline of major Windows happenings, along with computing milestones 
and
world events for reference.
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e) The Future Of Windows
A sneak peek at Vista, Blackcomb, and beyond.
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Cast Your Vote On Your Favorite Version Of Windows.
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20 Years Of Windows Releases: Screenshot Tour.
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2) Tape Encryption Special
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a) Market Analysis: Tape Encryption
By Don MacVittie
If you want to save your organization the infamy of a data disaster, 
it's time
to implement a tape-encryption system. We outline the business drivers 
and
technologies involved in protecting data on backup tapes.
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b) Review: Tape Encryption Devices: Host-based vs. Appliance
By Marisa Mack
How will you be judged if one of your company's backup tapes falls into 
the
wrong hands? We examine the strengths and weaknesses of a host-based
tape encryption product and an inline appliance.
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c) TechQuiz: Data Encryption
These days, there are quite a few new trends in data encryption. Do you 
have
what it takes to safely secure your network's critical data? Take our 
latest
quiz to find out. If you can outsmart our editors, we'll throw your 
name into
the hat for a free NWC collectible.
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3) Emerging Enterprise How-Tos
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a) Planning Your SMB's 2006 IT Spending
By Amy Lipton
The editors of Network Computing and Information Week help you plan,
prepare and strategize the coming year's IT purchases for your small to
midsize business.
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b) Security
By Don MacVittie
Just because your business is small, doesn't mean you don't need 
big-time data
protection. Here's how to keep your most valuable asset safe.
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c) Desktop Management
By Michael J. DeMaria
If your company's PCs aren't working for your employees, check out our 
guide
to buying systems. We cover what SMBs need to know to spend technology
budgets wisely.
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4) Online Only!
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a) Special Coverage: IP4IT Conference
Join our editors for their recap of the IP.4.IT Conference, where IT
professionals learned to better understand the fast-moving world of 
IP-based
business applications, trends and opportunities.
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b) New! Network Computing Reports
Our new, easy-to-navigate resource center lets you download PDFs of NWC
features and comparative reviews--for free. Search, download and share 
our
reports in an easy-to-read format to help you and your team analyze and
make purchasing decisions for today's technology solutions.
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c) Protect Yourself Against Rogue Wireless Access Points
By Matthew Friedman (originally published on Networking Pipeline)
As wireless networks proliferate, so do rogue access points, set up by
employees or hackers intent on stealing data and customers. Here's how 
you
can protect yourself against these pests.
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d) Secured Wireless Offers Enterprises More Than Just Peace of Mind
By Jennifer Bosavage (originally published on Security Pipeline)
Two midsize retail operations discover a cost-efficient way to secure 
wireless
networking internally for greater efficiency and push it out of house 
as a
customer service offering.
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e) Internet Explorer 7: Features Revealed
By Barbara Krasnoff and Scot Finnie (originally published on 
InternetWeek)
In the latest preview of Windows Vista, IE 7 offers some significant 
new
additions. However, it's still a work in development.
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f) Microsoft Vista October CTP Pre-Beta 2
By Scot Finnie (originally published on Desktop Pipeline)
Another Community Technology Preview release of Vista adds features for
networking and the Control Panel, including a great new Mobility 
Control.
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5) Audio/Visual Department
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a) NWC Audio/Visual Dept.:
- CEO Minute: Interview with Juniper's Scott Kriens
In this video interview, Juniper's Scott Kriens discusses whether his 
company
can stand toe-to-toe with Cisco.
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- Video Interview: AT&T's Hossein Eslambolchi
The president of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services contends 
that
IP will consume everything.
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- Video Interview: Barracuda Networks' Dean Drako
The CEO of Barracuda Networks expects less competition in the anti-spam
market within the next two years. Find out why. Also, find out what he 
has to
say on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of anti-spam legislation.
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b) Time for The News Show
Ready for an irreverent inside look at the technology industry? Tune in 
to "The
News Show." Our special media presentation features breaking news, 
technical
reviews and trend analysis, along with gossip, opinions and an 
overheated rant
or two. The News Show is available at 12:00 PM EDT every weekday at:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/
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6) Reviews and How-Tos
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a) Sneak Preview: 3Com Switch 5500G-EI
By Sean Doherty
We put the new 3Com stackable switches to the test. Their manageability 
and
support for VLANs, RADIUS authentication, 802.1x access control and PoE 
add
up to a grand slam.
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b) Sneak Preview: Airwave Management Platform 4.0
By Dave Molta
AirWave AMP 4.0 eases the task of managing your multi-vendor wireless 
LAN.
We tested it at our Syracuse University Real-World Labs.
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c) Centerfold: Olympic IT Team Seeks Gold Security Standard
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
The IT security team for the 2006 Winter Olympics learned from the 
previous
Games that they need to filter and correlate their network alarms with 
more
specificity--and that the insider threat is greater than they imagined.
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d) Storage Pipeline: Data Compression
By Jon William Toigo
Today's digital data explosion is the stuff of legend. A new breed of 
vendor is
trying to write the next chapter, starring sophisticated compression.
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7) Reader Reverb
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a) Last Mile: An IT Thanksgiving
By Tim Wilson, Tom LaSusa
In this edition, we gobble up the Top 11 ways to automate your 
Thanksgiving
celebration. Plus, crazy questions computer shoppers ask and the Jack 
PC.
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b) Top 11: IT Technologies on Gilligan's Deserted Island
There's still time to submit your entries for our Top 11 IT 
technologies
Gilligan could have used on his deserted island. Make us roll over with
laughter and we may print your funnies in the magazine and/or online.
Here are a few ideas to get you chuckling:
*A densely packed blade server to help Mary Anne with the cooking.
*An MP3 player and speakers to accompany Ginger's dance numbers.
*An IBM supercomputer to support the Professor's whacky theories.
*A cell phone and GPS locator to help them get off the dang island!

Submit your entries here:
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c) The Go-To Geek!
Are you the "Go-To Geek" for your friends and family? Then Contributing 
Editor
Jonathan Feldman needs your help! Are you hosting lots of friends, 
family and
not-for-profit Web sites on your personal static IP? Still running, 
patching
and maintaining a Web server at the house? (And giving up your precious
personal bandwidth in the bargain?) How do you answer the question, 
"you're
in IT, can you help me out with just a small Web site?" How can you 
help
without creating an immense support burden for yourself? In a nutshell, 
how do
you help your friends and family outsource stuff that otherwise might 
be a ball
and chain for you? Whether you've got info to help your fellow geek out 
or just
want to share your war stories, send us your thoughts.
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d) Rechristen the Internet
Shouldn't the Internet be named something cool, like "Land of the 
Links"? Send
us your suggestions to rename the Internet. The funniest entry will be
immortalized in a future issue.
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e) NWC Channels
Get a daily dose of industry news, commentaries, analysis and reviews 
from our
editors and industry experts focusing on key technology areas such as 
security,
business strategy, convergence and more.
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8) Calling All Readers
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a) Network Computing Presents the Building, Deploying and Securing 
Training
Series
Network Computing is offering two specialized training courses on 
Wireless
LANs and Voice over IP. These hands-on, multi-day courses will offer an
immersive learning experience designed for network administrators and
engineers. For more information on these courses, including course 
dates,
locations and detailed course outlines, go to:
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b) Contact Center Performance Management Survey: Raising the Maturity 
Level
of Customer Contact Centers
Most research today focuses on profiling the size, distribution and 
call
handling capabilities of call centers. In comparison, the Ventana 
Research
Contact Center Performance Management (CCPM) research practice focuses
exclusively on improving the business performance of contact centers. 
This
research study will quantify the maturity of contact centers and what 
makes a
successful mix of people, processes and technology. Through the results 
of this
research, organizations will be able to access the maturity of their 
contact
centers against industry benchmarks and best practices.

Please take the survey at:
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c) TechWeb's 2nd Annual Blog-X Awards
Recognize your favorite tech blogs! You determine the nominees and you
choose the winner in TechWeb's 2nd Annual Blog-X Awards, as X-cellence 
is in
the Eye of the Beholder! Please nominate your favorite tech-blog today. 
And be
sure to return when it's time to vote for the winner! Nominate your 
favorite
tech-blog now!
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9) The Daily Blog
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a) A Look at OATH
By Curtis Franklin
I've heard it said that you can tell our industry loves standards 
because there
are so many of them. I recently had a chance to sit down and talk with 
several
representatives to OATH, the Initiative for Open Authentication. These 
folks
are clear that they're not trying to become a standards body, but they 
are
active in promoting standards that will allow authentication components 
from
many different vendors to work together.
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b) A Match Made in Heaven?
By Don MacVittie
The crew over at Byte and Switch are running an article on a possible 
merger
between SonicWall and Lasso Logic. I'm vaguely familiar with both 
companies,
and I figure this might be a good move. Both service smaller offices 
and their
markets are slightly different. Could be very interesting.
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Read more entries from The Daily Blog.
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10) Opinion
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a) Down to Business: Don't Fear Commoditization
By Rob Preston
The commoditization of tech products will let IT pros focus on what 
their
employers value most: competitive advantage and profits.
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b) BuzzCut: Microsoft, Cisco Take Aim at NAT
By Peter Morrissey
Microsoft and Cisco have thrown their weight behind the ICE standard, 
which
promises a method of completing VoIP calls in Network Address 
Translation
environments.
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c) BuzzCut: Consortium to Protect Linux Vendors, Users From Patent 
Lawsuits
By Richard Hoffman
Several large vendors are waiving their patent claims to keep Linux 
open, and
they have formed a consortium to encourage other vendors to do the 
same.
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d) FUDBusters: E-Mail: More Time-Waster Than Timesaver
By Tim Wilson
A new long-term study indicates that U.S. workers are losing more than 
a day
each week just trying to manage their overloaded e-mailboxes.
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11) Your Monday IT Briefing
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Here are some of the must-read news stories we're following this week.

a) First Look: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1
By Rick Scott, Desktop Pipeline
Microsoft's radical new redesign of its applications suite has some 
neat new
features, but it could have users up in arms.
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b) Review: PC-cillin Internet Security 2006
By Rebecca Rohan, Security Pipeline
Trend Micro's new anti-malware suite offers solid protection without 
scaring
uneasy users.
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c) Ten 10 Tips for Network Security
By Phil Britt, Courtesy of Security Pipeline
No matter how secure you think you are, your network is never safe 
enough.
Experts offer up their top tips and insight on locking down your 
network.
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d) Applying Security to Web Servers
By Andy Dornan, IT Architect
The famous Top 10 list of security bugs isn't enough. True security 
means
looking deeper into OWASP and WASC.
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e) Integration: The New Key to Competitive Excellence
By the Intelligent Enterprise Editors
This eBook is a compilation of articles on data integration that have
previously appeared in Intelligent Enterprise, bound together for easy 
reading
and interaction.
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For additional research, check out our online encyclopedia providing 
Web-based
definitions of IT terms.
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You can find links to these and other breaking news stories organized 
by
technology via our handy NetNews Service.
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12) Coming Events
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a) Privacy and Compliance Regulations: Is Your Business Liable?
--A Network Computing Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
This TechWebCast will discuss the underlying principals and liabilities 
of
government compliancy regulations, crucial best practices and how
third-generation holistic e-mail security can protect your 
organization. This
eSeminar is recommended for CIOs, directors and managers of IT faced 
with
the challenge of securing their message network.
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b) Setting the Standard: A Formal Definition of the Enterprise Service 
Bus
--An Intelligent Enterprise Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Thursday, December 1, 2005
9:00 AM PT /11:00 AM CT / 12:00 PM ET
While the enterprise service bus (ESB) has been called out as "core" to
deploying SOA, the debate continues on what an ESB is and exactly how 
its
architecture provides rapid response to business demands. In this
TechWebCast, Sonic Software will present a formal definition of ESB 
using
industry standard notation and share--through a number of customer
examples--why it should be at the core of your SOA.
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c) Sarbanes Oxley and the Role of IT Asset Management
--An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Thursday, December 8, 2005
9:00 AM PT /11:00 AM CT / 12:00 PM ET
Although some major milestones have been met, there is still a long way 
to go
on the road to achieving Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, especially within 
the IT
organization. Join Peregrine and Protiviti for a TechWebcast where you 
will
learn from leading industry experts in the area of IT Asset Management 
and
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
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