Articles by Dan Muse 

Industry leaders say they will support the ICE methodology to deliver rich media connections across NATs and firewalls. Research firm issues Skype warning.

Up-front costs of VoIP migration are high—even with a hosted solution. Apptix has a remedy.

To give you a measure of control over video applications, Packeteer today announced a Flash plug-in built to help you accelerate only business-related video.

With the goal of automating network security, Trend Micro today announced its Worry-Free Security initiative. The security software vendor kicked off the program with the release of Client Server Security for SMB 3.0 and Client Server Messaging Security for SMB 3.0.

The network security appliance vendor announces new ways to protect yourself from viruses, spam, spyware and inappropriate Web sites.

The Foster City, Calif.-based company attempts to protect the corporate infrastructure from unauthorized instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications and activity.

The network configuration tool provider will partner with server-management specialist Opsware to offer an end-to-end view of network infrastructures. Voyence also announced its membership in the standards-based Data Center Markup Language Organization.

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