• OnStor on Isilon
  OnStor is more open than Isilon's product. It is also a clustered NAS gateway whereas the Isilon product is a NAS cluster.
• Ruiz: Chip advances not held back by technology
  AMD's boss talks about power consumption, virtualisation and 100-core chips
• A patch off the old block
  We talk to Mark Shavlik, eponymous boss of Shavlik Technologies, about writing code for Microsoft, the evolution of patch management tools and their growth towards regulatory compliance.
• Power over Ethernet: Promise and problems
  PoE may appear to solve problems at the end-point of the LAN, but in many cases it is really just moving those problems elsewhere in the network, says APC's Rick Sawyer. He explains the risks, and suggests way to avoid or mitigate them.
• New management products from Tivoli
  IBM has announced that the IBM Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) is to ship 30 June, along with three Process Manager tools. The company's Al Zollar discusses what they mean for users.
• Why launch draft 802.11n products?
  Draft 802.11n wireless LAN products don't perform as well as existing MIMO products. We asked Netgear: why launch them?
• A patch in time saves nine
  Risk management should mean less patching for security and software, not more, argues Skybox's Edward Cooper.
• Juniper CEO Kriens touts open systems
  Networking is still too tribal, but virtualisation and open network operating systems are going to change that.
• Sun storage is about DATA management platforms
  Sun has good basic storage platforms but its focus is on data management not just storage product building.
• Network pros share thoughts on top issues
  Three top-level IT professionals share what's on their minds.
• 10Gig drives the need for TCP offload
  It's fine for inter-switch links, but running 10Gig Ethernet to servers is a whole different matter, demanding intelligence in the NIC, reckons NetXen's Vik Karvat.
• Tit for tat
  Everdream and Iron Mountain's DataDefense both have products and services to protect desktop PC and notebook data if the computer is lost or stolen. How do they compare?
• Turning up the heat on identity management
  HP's CTO for identity management explains why authentication and identity are such hot topics for anyone involved in building and managing networks, applications and systems.
• Freescale's UWB soap opera
  Martin Rofheart explains why his UWB is best, and Bluetooth is doomed - but it all begins to sound like a soap opera to us.
• Encrypt data as it goes to tape
  TD Ameritrade uses Decru products to encrypt server data as it's backed up to tape.
• EMC says ILM means tiered networks too
  EMC's CTO, Ken Steinhardt, talks about tiered storage networks and virtualising network tiers.
• McData layers it on
  An interview with Jeff Vogel, McData's SVP for corporate development and strategy
• How is wireless developing?
  What's hot in wireless - and how will the IT manager cope with it. Analyst Craig Mathias gives some answers.
• A view from the networking trenches
  A veteran network administrator offers his thoughts on how to persuade bosses, support users, protect data and plan ahead.

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