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02/11/08

This week in Network World

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Here’s a different Microsoft/Yahoo story
How Microsoft's and Yahoo's e-mail security technologies stack up, complement each other.

Nortel, Microsoft chart unified communications progress
Even though they fleshed out their joint strategy on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” a year ago, Nortel and Microsoft have since shown that their unified communications partnership is no joke.

Tests/Buyer's Guides

Part III: Taming the Virtual Beast
Each of the products tested hits our list of ideals in some fashion, but none nail all of them. PlateSpin's PowerRecon and Virtugo's virtualSuite provide availability monitoring, moves-adds-changes tracking, and operational history tracking for forensics, as does nWorks for VMware.

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New Red Hat boss plots $1 billion plan
Competitors should keep a weary eye on newly minted Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, whose fresh face masks a certified executioner who has a plan to grow the open source leader into a billion-dollar juggernaut supplying data center infrastructure software.

Enterasys looking to buy into big-time
Enterasys is looking to make one or two acquisitions this year in an ambitious effort to increase revenue to $1 billion - it isn't close today - by expanding the company's presence in security and wireless.

IBM-Google partnership merges best features of Internet and corporate computing, IBM exec says
IBM’s Steve Mills talks about Big Blue’s cloud computing partnership with Google.

Dell/EMC storage partnership will be tested by EqualLogic deal
ell and EMC's storage partnership will be tested by Dell's acquisition of IP storage-area network vendor EqualLogic.

Free DNS: Too good to be true?
If there's no such thing as a free lunch, how can there be a free service that handles a network management function as critical as DNS? That's what corporate IT executives are wondering as they consider two vendors touting free DNS services that are supposedly ready for the enterprise.