Network Performance Daily Links 2006-10-18


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eWeek: Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
"Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected IBMserverroom.jpgcomputer starts scanning the network, looking for vulnerable hosts. In a cubicle across the hall, Patrick Jordan's unpatched test machine is hit by the worm, prompting a chuckle from the veteran spyware researcher..."

BusinessWeek: Big Media Gets a Second Life
"The game's audience, swiftly approaching 1 million, is growing at about 38% month over month, according to its creator, Linden Lab. The outfit expects to add 200,000 to 250,000 new players...'Everyone's been searching for the killer broadband offering, and this is it.'"

tecosystems: IBM Defines a New Application Category
"Wikipedia doesn't seem to know just when the term "application server" was coined nor who coined it, but if "information server" becomes popular, it's a safe bet that IBM will get the lion's share of the credit. That, to my eye, is the big news out of IBM's Information On Demand conference."

IBM: IBM Information Server
"IBM Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform from IBM that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. It enables organizations to integrate disparate data and deliver trusted information wherever and whenever needed, in line and in context, to specific people, applications, and processes."

Nemertes Research: Want to safeguard your data? Give it to strangers!
"Online storage seems to be the answer, but how do you trust a third party with your data? Well... you don't: You give them an encrypted copy that only you can read."

Data Center Central: Combining Storage Virtualization and ILM
"A couple of key questions surfaced this week regarding storage virtualization and its ability to adequately track and monitor data being shuttled between a growing multitude of sources and destinations."

365questions.org: The Art of 404 pages
"Toto, I have the feeling we're not in Kansas any more."  -- Funny, weird and ribald error pages.

silicon.com: We love WLAN, say consumers
"Business demand for centralised WLAN architecture technology in particular continued to grow, with revenues jumping 48 per cent, whereas revenue for decentralised architecture products fell 16 per cent."

All about Linux: Xen - A GPLed Virtualisation Technology for Linux
"Linux had always lacked a Open Source virtualisation technology in the same league as Solaris containers or commercial product like Vmware. That was until Xen came into the picture. Xen is an opensource virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems."




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