NetFlash: See what the Buzz is about 10/01/04 In this issue:
* The Buzz Issue * PeopleSoft's CEO Conway gets the boot * Nortel details plans to lay off 3,250 employees * StorageTek buys storage mgmt. company * Hitachi, NEC launch networking equipment joint venture * Network World Fusion Radio: VoIP * Today on Layer 8 * This week's top 5 stories * Links related to NetFlash * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Lucent Align Your IT Resources and Deliver Results Fast IDC reports that Lucent VitalSuite(r) Performance Management Software helps many businesses centrally monitor, manage and deliver advanced services rapidly while generating outstanding financial benefits-an average ROI as high as 719% and 133 day payback. 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We take in-depth looks at the hottest technologies - the fastest wireless options being considered today, the leaps Linux is making at the desktop, so-called "grid" storage and others. Special feature: the buzzword lexicon, which provides questions you should ask vendors when shopping around for some of these new technologies. The Buzz Issue <http://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/?net> PeopleSoft's CEO Conway gets the boot Craig Conway was really between a rock and a hard place. As PeopleSoft CEO, he had to contend with Oracle's hostile takeover bid while simultaneously keeping revenue and profits up. Unfortunately, income dropped 70% from one year to the next, and Conway was shown the door. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1001peoplceoc.html?net> Nortel details plans to lay off 3,250 employees Nortel.will lay off approximately 1,400 employees in the U.S. and about 950 in Canada, with those employees to be notified by the end of June 2005, the network equipment vendor said in a regulatory filing Thursday that fleshed out earlier announcements of the coming layoffs. <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0930nortedetai.html?net> StorageTek buys storage mgmt. company StorageTek Thursday announced that it has acquired storage management vendor Storability. Storability's Global Storage Manager software will be added to StorageTek's information lifecycle management software. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0930stek.html?net> Hitachi, NEC launch networking equipment joint venture Alaxala Networks, the backbone-network router and switch joint venture announced by Hitachi and NEC earlier this year, began operations on Friday, it said in a statement. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1001hitacnecl.html?net> Network World Fusion Radio: The hidden costs of VoIP Bandwidth is not the only thing you have to be concerned with when rolling out VoIP. Is your network closet and cabling up to snuff? Gary Audin of Delphi joins the program to discuss the physical costs associated with VoIP. <http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0930radio.html?net> Today on Layer 8, where there's no debating the need for odd news: RFID proponents don't want to be tracked; VoIP price war ahead?; area codes don't mean as much as they used to; and U.S. phishing losses hit $500 million; 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. Bank of America to deploy 180,000 IP phones with Cisco, EDS <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928bankam.html?net> 2. Hackers use porn to target Microsoft JPEG hole <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928hackeusep.html?net> 3. Security in a world without borders <http://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/092704perimeter.html?net> 4. IPv6 expert sees adoption growing... slowly <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html?net> 5. Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sensors.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. Contact him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ 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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