This week in Network World

NOTE: This page shows all of the stories that appeared in print this week. However, some of them may also have appeared online before the print publication date and the text may not exactly match the print version. The date on each story is the date it appeared online.

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Shades of Blue reflected in HP's dramatic reshuffling
HP's plans to get out of the PC business, acquire software maker Autonomy and retreat from its webOS device investments will allow the tech giant to sharpen its focus on enterprise IT markets and capitalize on the software-centric strengths of CEO Leo Apotheker.

With SSL, who can you really trust?
SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can't be trusted?

Tests/Buyer's Guides

Palo Alto earns short list status
Palo Alto Networks has injected excitement and innovation into the firewall market with its "next-generation" appliances that combine traditional firewalls, threat mitigation technologies such as anti-malware and intrusion prevention, and the new magic dust of application identification.

Palo Alto PA-5060 is one fast firewall
Palo Alto's new firewall delivered performance 10 times faster than when we tested in 2008, and came close to its rated capacity of 20Gbps in firewall-only mode, according to our exclusive Clear Choice testing.