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Pod slurping revisited Abe Usher of Sharp Ideas joins the program again to talk about his updated tool - Slurp Audit - that illustrates how quickly an iPod or similar device can be used to pick clean a hard drive of business documents and data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mesh networks provide'Net access to Cedar Rapids buses This week, we talk with Motorola's Rick Rotondo, director of marketing for the mesh networks production group, about a new wireless network rollout in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that provides security, entertainment and Internet access to city buses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Multicore processors and server virtualization We're joined this week by Vernon Turner, IDC's group vice president and general manager for enterprise computing, to talk about the impact on enterprise data centers by multicore processors and server virtualization technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Challenges of a CIO Our guest this week brings an interesting perspective to our program. Ann Franks is the CIO of Lanier Worldwide, a subsidiary of Ricoh that makes document management products. Franks joins us to talk about her company's challenges at obtaining ISO 17799 security certification and about her dual role in supporting internal employees and helping with product specifications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BMC CTO Tom Bishop Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie interviews BMC's Tom Bishop about his new role as Chief Technology Officer and what's happening in the world of IT management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The SANS top 20 vulnerabilities Last week, SANS, in cooperation with a number organizations, released its annual Top 20 vulnerabilities list. Joining us to discuss what's new on the list and who is exploiting these vulnerabilities is Rohit Dhamankar, lead security architect for 3Com's TippingPoint division and the project manager for the SANS Top 20. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A user's view of the 3Com X505 Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth talks with Jeff Crawford, manager of networking and security for the East Grand Rapids, Michigan school district about 3Com's new all-in-one security box the TippingPoint X505 and the company in general. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Challenging Skype This week we catch up with Damaka to find out more about their voice over IP offering, how it differs from Skype and how the company plans to make money with a free service. Joining us is Damaka Senior Advisor Alastair Westgarth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Verity and enterprise search Verity has been in the business of enterprise search for quite some time. Recently the company launched version 6.0 of its K2 Enterprise product that targets special applications that require a lot heavy data lifting. Joining us to discuss the release and the enterprise search market in general is Nicole Eagan, chief marketing officer at Verity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HP's Mark Potts on SOA Senior Editor Denise Dubie talks with Mark Potts, CTO of Hewlett-Packard's Management Software Business about his role with the company and HP's view on the state of service oriented architecture (SOA) implementations in customer sites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bloggers beware Writing about your employer or goings on a work in a personal Weblog can have harsh consequences, just ask Mark Jen or Ellen Simonetti, fired from Google and Delta, respectively. Joining the program to discuss the employer/employee blogger relationship is Chris Cobey, senior counsel with the law firm Littler Mendelson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pointed in the right direction Last week we ventured in to Boston for IDC's Directions 2005 conference where we met up with Jean Bozman, research vice president for the enterprise computing group, to talk about Linux in the data center and Kevin Burden, program manager for mobile devices to look at the future of the phones and PDAs we carry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interop Day 1 We're live (sort of) from Las Vegas at the Interop trade show. We talk with Tandberg about the video portion of the Interop show network and share some frustrations about vague vendor demos and delayed downloads. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Career building Career building advice is always useful, particularly in an age when people change jobs every couple of years. This week's guest is Matt Moran, author of"The I.T. Career Builder's Toolkit"from Cisco Press, who joins to talk about what makes a well-rounded IT employee, one that potential employers will look favorably on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Measuring video quality One company looking to corner the market on automated quality measurement for IP communications is Psytechnics. The company already offers voice quality assessment tools and is now rolling out a similar product for IP-based video. Joining the program to talk about company's new video initiatives is Psytechnics CEO John Winchester. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recapping CES Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mac OS X 10.4 This week we turn our attention to the latest release of the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 or Tiger, which was released about a month ago. Joining the program is Gordon Haff, senior analyst at Illuminata in Nashua, NH. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tracking content at MLB.com Through its MLB.com site, Major League Baseball serves up both live streaming audio and video of every game, in addition to the news and stats for all 30 teams. Joining us to discuss how MLB.com manages all of its content is Justin Shaffer, vice president and chief architect for MLB Advanced Media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interop Day 2 Day 2 at Interop finds us on the show floor talking with three interesting vendors: WeatherBug (yes, the little weather application guys), Eli, and Panda Software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carly's departure Terry Shannon of Shannon Knows High Performance Computing joins the program to discuss the reasons behind Carly Fiorina's departure from HP and the state of the company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting started with ITIL ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library - is gaining steam in corporate IT shops in the United States. An import from the United Kingdom, ITIL is a set of rules for how to deliver IT services more efficiently. What does that all mean for you? We're joined by Mark Bradley, a network manager for a large financial services firm and one of the authors of"Implementing Service and Support Management Processes: A Practical Guide"from the Help Desk Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wainhouse's WebMetrics survey This week we're joined by Alan Greenberg, senior analyst and consultant at Wainhouse Research. Alan is with us to discuss Wainhouse's quarterly WebMetrics survey, which tracks Web conferencing usage and patterns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IT spending in 2005 Predictions for 2005 is the central theme for this week's print issue, so we're jumping on the bandwagon with a look at IT spending trends in the coming year. Joining us to discuss the topic is Andrew Bartels, vice president and research analyst at Forrester Research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Voice over IP gains traction This week's program looks at the adoption of voice over IP technology in the corporate world. Joining the program is Daryl Schoolar, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR, a market research company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Schoolar recently published new research that examines growth in the VoIP sector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IBM Global Services'SOA strategy Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie talks with Michael Liebow, vice president of Web Services and service-oriented architecture at IBM Global Services about SOA in general and how his company is promoting it for enterprise use. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting your rebate money Rebates can be the bane of one's existence when it comes to buying electronics, especially this time of year as people load up on holiday goodies for friends and family. But as James Gaskin, an author of 15 books and a Network World columnist, explains, getting your rebate is not always easy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Festoon connects GoogleTalk and Skype This week we talk with Max Montgomery, director of marketing for Santa Cruz Networks, about his company's multipoint video service for Skype and Google Talk called Festoon. We also find out why Santa Cruz is closing down its business-oriented Viditel service at the end of the month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brian Underdahl on building a home network Joining our program is Brian Underdahl, author of some 70 technology books including"Home Networking: A Visual Do-It-Yourself Guide"from Cisco Press, which tackles the very issues that challenge our non-technical acquaintances. Underdahl discusses some of the considerations one should think about when building a home network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Putting out fires, literally This week, we take a look at something very important to a data center: Fire suppression. Specifically, Tyco Fire & Security's Sapphire Suppression System, which uses a chemical that looks and feels like water, but does not damage electronic equipment. Joining us is Joe Ziemba, marketing director for the ANSUL division of Tyco Fire & Security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IBM's World Community Grid IBM is looking to harness the power of the millions of Internet connect PCs around the globe to work on important research projects as part of its new World Community Grid initiative. We talk with Robin Willner, IBM's director of corporate community relations, about the Grid, how users can get involved and what projects will be tackled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The GPL roadmap Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth talks with Peter Brown, the executive director of the free software foundation about the roadmap for General Public License, an open source licensing scheme for software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Search engines Can Google be knocked off by some of the smaller search engines on the block like Clusty, a9 or AllTheWeb? And what impact will Microsoft's impending search effort have on the market. Bill Tancer, vice president of research at Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service that tracks the habits of Web surfers, joins us to discuss the overall search market and where it is heading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LEGO as a hobby Allan Bedford, a software analyst from the Ontario, Canada, has turned his hobby of building models with LEGOs into a book, The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide. He joins us to talk about the hobby, how he goes about creating his models, and how anyone young or old can get started with LEGOs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Video distribution and RSS We're joined on the program by Robert Petty, CEO and co-founder of ROO, a company that serves video from multiple content providers through its rootv.com Web site. Petty is here to talk about the challenges of video distribution and how RSS is being used as a solution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind the scenes at PivX With Network World looking at seven Vulnerability Alerting Services in this week's issue, we take a look at how one of these companies operates behind the scenes. Joining the program is Thor Larholm, senior security researcher for PivX. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Video search with Blinkx Search engine giant Google made a big splash last week with its new beta Video Search tool, allowing users to cull through transcripts of video from a handful of television stations and networks. Joining the program to discuss the video search is Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder and CTO of Blinkx, which has developed its own video search technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Black Hat wrangling Network World Test Alliance member Rodney Thayer joins the program from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas to discuss the legal wrangling of researcher Michael Lynn. A former ISS staffer, Lynn exposed a previously unknown exploit for Cisco IOS, the core operating system for many of its popular routers, and landed himself in hot water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Apple makes switch What does Apple's announced move of dropping IBM PowerPC chips in favor Intel processors mean for the company and its enthusiasts? We talk with Tim Deal, senior analyst at Technology Business Research to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anti-spam techniques We speak with author and anti-spam developer Jonathan Zdziarski about his DSPAM application and Bayesian filtering techniques. Zdziarski also has a book coming out this week called"Ending Spam"published by No Starch Press. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Endpoint security product testing This week's edition of Network World contains a comprehensive test of the endpoint security products. Network World Lab Alliance members Mandy Andress and Rodney Thayer put each entrant through the paces to find out which did the best job of protecting your enterprise. Thayer joins us to discuss how the testingwas conducted and share some surprises they found along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Broadband without wires How does a fixed wireless ISP differ from a traditional wire-based service provider? To find out, we talk with Graham Barnes, CEO of NextWeb, a wireless ISP service provider in California. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The SBC/AT&T ripple Allan Tumolillo, COO of Probe Financial Associates, joins the program to discuss the SBC acquisition of AT&T, what it could mean for the rest of the big telecom companies, and how it could impact enterprise customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Moonlighting musicians John Roulat is an IT vice president at a large multinational firm by day and a progressive musician by night with a band called Forever Einstein. What makes the band interesting is its virtual approach to recording. We talk with Roulat about the music making process and play a few tracks from Forever Einstein's album"Racket Science". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Windows worms, flaws plague users With multiple worms released last week to exploit the recently patched Windows Plug and Play (PnP) flaw and a new details on an Internet Explorer vulnerability that's not patched, users and administrators have a lot on their plates. We're joined by Johannes Ullrich of the Internet Storm Center and Eric Yoshizuru of Panda Software to discuss the latest security threats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITIL realities This week, Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie chats with Michele Hudnall, director of service management at software vendor Managed Objects, about the realities of ITIL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Get ready for IPv6 With the proliferation of Internet-connected devices continuing, we're quickly running out of usable address space for all things networked. IPv6, a new addressing scheme that's been around for a while might finally be taking hold, providing much needed relief to an overburdened'Net. Joining us to discuss IPv6, its benefits and challenges is Karl Siil, chief architect at Lumeta, a provider of network intelligence tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A look at Skype Skype's free calling Internet-based calling application is a hot commodity. The company claims 31 million people are using Skype to make free calls to one another and 160,000 new people are coming on board each day. Joining to discuss the phenomenon is Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's CEO and co-founder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What is pod slurping? To demonstrate the ease of"pod slurping"- the ability to copy corporate information to an iPod's hard drive - Abe Usher created an application that can suck Word, PDF, Excel and other office documents off an office PC in minutes. Usher, founder of Sharp Ideas, joins us to discuss his application and what companies can do to combat the potential iPod security risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Successful business blogging With comScore reporting that 50 million Americans read blog and that those readers tend to be wealthier and more likely to shop online, we chat with Matt Moran, author of the"The IT Career Builder's Toolkit,"about what makes a good business blog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The mobile threat Are cell phones the next big target for attackers and viruses? With news of a new mobile worm coming out nearly every week, security managers should start to worry about the potential threat. We're joined by Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager of Symantec Security Response to discuss what the current threats are and how to protect yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |