NetFlash: Google and NASA plan R&D partnership

NetFlash: Google and NASA plan R&D partnership
09/29/05

In this issue:

* Google and NASA plan R&D partnership
* NGN: Skeptics view IMS as way for carriers to control users
* Cisco rolls out datacenter architecture
* Microsoft releases backup, recovery software
* Radio: Locking down USB ports
* Today on Layer 8
* Links related to NetFlash
* Featured reader resource
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NETFLASH: BREAKING NEWS FROM NETWORKWORLD.COM

By Jeff Caruso

When I first read this headline, my first thought was, why not?
Why not, indeed? Google seems on track to take over the world,
so it only makes sense that it would look ahead to carving up
the galaxy with NASA. Heck, Vint Cerf is a Google man now, and
he's been talking - in public, no less, and with a straight face
- about an interplanetary Internet for years. But it turns out
you don't have to look as far as outer space; there is something
terrestrial that NASA has and that Google desperately needs.
Google and NASA plan R&D partnership
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7870>

NGN: Skeptics view IMS as way for carriers to control users

The IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS, sounds innocuous enough.
It's a way for carriers to realize the dream of converged voice,
video and data over wired or wireless IP networks. Or is it a
mechanism for carriers to control their customers and what they
access?
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7871>

Cisco rolls out data center architecture

Cisco Wednesday released a computer networking and
virtualization architecture it calls VFrame. The architecture
combines a set of InfiniBand-based server fabric switches with
the VFrame virtualization software suite.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7872>

Microsoft releases backup, recovery software

Microsoft Tuesday released Data Protection Manager, backup and
recovery software and the newest member of the company's System
Center family of management tools.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7873>

Radio: Locking down USB ports

This week we talk with Vladimir Chernavsky, CEO of Smartline,
about his company's DeviceLock software that can limit the
usability of USB ports on a Windows machine, helping keep
information from walking out the door on portable storage
devices. Listen in:
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7874>

Today on Layer 8, now scratch-free:

MIT intros $100 laptop for kids; RFID used to tag Katrina dead;
Apple admits nano flaws - kinda; and British TV drama lets
viewers choose the plot via texting; all this today and more at
your home for not-just-networking news.
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The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. How to solve Windows system crashes in minutes
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7614>
2. IPTV will trip up Bells, analysts say
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7875>
3. McAfee, Omniquad top anti-spyware test
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash6921>
4. Skype: Hazardous to network health?
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7779>
5. The rise of the IT architect
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash7042>

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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:jcaruso@nww.com>
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consolidation and highlights key points of consideration in
vendor selection.
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