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05/05/08

This week in Network World

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Microsoft faces challenges in expanding management strategy
Microsoft last week set it sites on becoming a dominant enterprise management vendor, but experts and users say first it will have to define the scope of its goals, improve the platform, and prove it can be the caretaker of non-Windows systems.

Interop spins technology as a way to save
Technologies that can improve corporate bottom lines dominated the buzz at Interop Las Vegas, promising efficiencies and returns on investment that may help stave off cuts to IT spending in a tough economy.

Feature article

Desktop of the future
Metro Health Hospital, a healthcare system serving 130,000 patients across Michigan, is already using what some consider the desktop of the future. The hospital has rolled out server-hosted virtual desktops to every employee no matter where they are or what client device they use.

Tech Update

Active vs. predictive site surveys: pros and cons
Despite all the advances in Wi-Fi, it is surprising how often the stumbling block for successful wireless deployment is the site survey.

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IBM, Google stirring up a cloud environment
Google and IBM are testing a cloud computing infrastructure that could become an important avenue for them to deliver software and services to consumer and business users.

IBM to build apps marketplace for SMBs
IBM is trying to rally support for an online applications marketplace for small and midsized businesses that it plans to launch later this year.

School district uses virtualization to 'kid-proof' 10,000 student PCs
Kent School District is using Microsoft’s virtualization platform to virtualize hundreds of PC programs on thousands of student PCs. The new approach reduces software conflicts, crashes and support problems, and meters software-license use more efficiently.

How one site dealt with SQL injection attack
U.K.-based car-marketing site Autoweb was one of many Web sites hit in the Internet wave of SQL injection attacks first noticed Friday April 25. AutoWeb was smashed up, but its CIO tells how the site was repaired and got running again.

HP researchers build intelligent memory
Researchers at HP have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained.

Cloudy picture for cloud computing
You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing - at least not yet.

Interop network goes all-out virtual
The world's largest temporary network, which powers Interop, sheds physical servers by going virtual.

Microsoft designing application virtualization on server
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft is working on application virtualization technology for the server that is designed to provide administrators the flexibility to quickly deploy infrastructure and even stream applications on-demand.