Networking news from FierceCIO

A New York University professor believes that CIOs worried about security are often shortsighted when only concerned about intrusion detection and prevention from the outside. Instead, said Nasir... Read more...

A total of eighteen companies have banded together to create the next multi-gigabit wireless standard. Calling themselves the Gigabit Wireless Alliance (WiGig), the group includes the likes of... Read more...

There are many products on the market to help enterprise IT pros manage IP addresses. Some options are costly and many vary in their ability to efficiently track core network services. Companies,... Read more...

IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division did a scan of some 2 million computers in the last 24 hours and came up with a startling figure: The Conficker worm was spotted on some 4 percent of the... Read more...

IPv6 is a failure so far in its efforts to expand the Internet before it runs out of IP addresses by 2012. A new study from the web monitoring company Pingdom showed that only 4 percent of the... Read more...

Perhaps it should be obvious if you are in trouble at work and are about to get laid off. But some folks are always surprised, and somehow in the dark. Ladders.com has five red flags, or warning... Read more...

NetworkWorld.com says that savvy IT executives need to connect to the latest innovations on the Internet if they want to keep up with their 20-something employees and improve business performance.... Read more...

Cisco Systems Inc. launched a multi-pronged effort this week to make its products better suited for handling the ever-increasing amount of video traffic."Video is becoming the dominant traffic on... Read more...

Google, this week, announced a new policy on retention of data, promising to anonymize IP addresses on its server Relevant Products/Services logs after nine months. This will slash the... Read more...

It is a widely held belief that the golf course is a great place for networking, relationship building and career advancement, but CIO Magazine's "Golf Networking Survey" has found that not everyone... Read more...