NetFlash: What's your name again? 10/15/04 In this issue:
* What's your name again? * Google debuts desktop search app * Ipswitch goes pro * HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says * Today on Layer 8 * This week's top 5 stories * Links related to NetFlash * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. 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But if you're a network service provider, the name might scare customers. That's why the company changed its name to the friendlier "GoRemote." This week's Wider Net looks at the process of changing names at GRIC and other companies that didn't quite get it right the first time. What's your name again? <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104widernetnames.html?net> Google debuts desktop search app Google's software takes search technology to the next level: your desktop. It's free and we show you where to get it. Now what I really need is a search engine for my house, to help me when I misplace something - which is all too often. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014google.html?net> Ipswitch goes pro Ipswitch this week detailed how it has upgraded its network monitoring software with a new user interface, encryption features and more storage capacity. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014ipswitch.html?net> HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says More than two years after completing its buyout of rival Compaq, HP has not done enough to take full advantage of the acquisition, according to HP's chairman and CEO. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1015hpcould.html?net> Today on Layer 8, where it's all fun and games until somebody loses an iPod: Survey says U.S. air traffic control network is vulnerable; Google sends HR to India; L.A. cop sued over bootlegs; and enterprise nets are "more exposed than ever"; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news. <http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net> This week's top 5 stories so far: 1. Kerry crowd drowns out Bush backers at IT show <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104vortex.html?net> 2. SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1012etresco.html?net> 3. Google debuts desktop search app <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014google.html?net> 4. Video users saying hello IP, goodbye ISDN <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104specialfocus.html?net> 5. IBM supersizes storage arrays <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104ibmstorage.html?net> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jeff Caruso Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. 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