Techworld.com: Managing wireless as if it were wired
"Voice over Wi-Fi is among a handful of emerging applications that industry watchers say is helping to propel wireless from a conference-room convenience to a more pervasive, mission-critical technology for today's business environments. As that happens, enterprises are becoming more aware of the challenges of managing wireless components."

WAN optimization from Juniper gets faster
"According to Mike Banic, senior director of product marketing at Juniper, the WXC 590 platform eases data center consolidation, Web enablement of applications, data replication and backup, implementation of high-availability architectures and regulatory compliance."

ZDNet: Cisco: Good enough to be worth faking?
"If something is of value somebody will rip it off: but while the IT industry is used to dealing with bogus software, it may not be as alert to fake routers and switches. Cisco is finding that being the biggest network equipment supplier in the world makes it a natural target for those who want to make a quick buck from selling fake kit."

Howfunky.com: Cisco NAC and CAS
"Cisco seems to really be ahead of almost everyone else in the NAC space in terms of having a product that is easy to implement, is robust and can do all aspects of what you would expect from a NAC Appliance. I think the hardest thing about this market is the lack of a common definition of NAC and what it really mean, but that is to be expected from a new technology. At this time, points go to Cisco for a complete and quick to deploy solution. I think Microsoft will have some advantage once the install base of Vista becomes significant (2009?) and they are able to have a complete story around AD, IPSec, Federated Domains and running everying on IPv6. Doing something like NAP become much easier once all those items are in place."

The IT Skeptic: ITIL is culturally biased by its narrow and closed contributor base
"ITIL is written by “service suppliers, training companies and academia in Britain, Canada and the USA” who know IT operations and cater to corporate business. That is a narrow authorship base for a framework that sets out to document IT Service Management. No authors from Asia. No authors from government, health, engineering, non-profits, or small business. And zero mechanisms for the disenfranchised to contribute. So how does anyone know it is universal best practice, and is it best for those other users?"