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  1. Malware Survey - similiar topic by mrhandstand · · Score: 1 · on The State Of Grayware On the PC
    http://bt.ins.com/ just released a survey about how companies view and respond to the malware threat

    WARNING PDF go http://bt.ins.com/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2665 to view

    I also did an interview @ DarkReading.com http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151382&WT.svl=news1_1 about the survey.

    DISCLAIMER: I work for BT, but the survey is pretty unbiased IMHO.

  2. Malware Survey - similiar topic by mrhandstand · · Score: 1 · on The State Of Grayware On the PC
    http://bt.ins.com/ just released a survey about how companies view and respond to the malware threat

    WARNING PDF go http://bt.ins.com/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2665 to view

    I also did an interview @ DarkReading.com http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=151382&WT.svl=news1_1 about the survey.

    DISCLAIMER: I work for BT, but the survey is pretty unbiased IMHO.

  3. Take a look at BT Diamond IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Managing Lots of IP Addresses?

    BT Diamond IP came from the people who originally came up with QIP, it is extremely feature rich and you can buy it as an appliance.

    http://bt.ins.com/software/

  4. same boat by aichainz · · Score: 5, Informative · on IP Addressing Space Management Applications?

    I've reviewed the following:

    Bluecat Networks Proteus/Adonis http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/
    Incognito IP/Name/DNS Commander http://www.incognito.com/
    INS IPControl http://www.ins.com/
    Carnegie Mellon's NetReg http://www.net.cmu.edu/netreg
    Lucent VitalQIP http://qip.lucent.com/
    Solarwinds IPAM Pro http://www.solarwinds.net/
    Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com/
    Infoblox http://www.infoblox.com/
    IPPlan http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipplan
    MetaInfo http://www.metainfo.com/

    In hopes of replacing our current in-house developed solution.

    I'll be honest, they are for the most part simply 'ok'. I wasn't super-impressed with any of them, and the bottom half of the list were definitely not ready for ISP/ASP/MSP-level use. I've listed them in descending order of my preference. All the useable ones are super-expensive, on the order of 'ok you can afford to pay a decent php/mysql coder to code you something from the ground up', or you can take this out-of-the-box thing, and shoe-horn it into your existing network. Which will in most cases take some weeks of programming anyway...

    I had some of what I thought were pretty simple requirements...

    - unix/linux based
    - no single point of failure (clustering)
    - handle forward and reverse dns
    - api's (mostly to allow us to present a customer access to their zones)
    - web-based gui with tiered user-levels
    - pref software-based install rather than appliance, due to the shoe-horn prediction i mentioned above

    Those are the highlights off the top of my head. I was surprised how few actually had all those features.

    After months of doing webcasts, reading white-papers etc we've come to the conclusion that it's going to be developed in-house from the ground up, using bsd/apache/postgres/php/bind and some soap.

    After reviewing these, I'm actually dying to know what large enterprises are using. I'm hoping there's some magic bullet IPAM solution that I missed on google. Please someone tell me about it!

    Anyway, hope this helps you in your quest.

  5. Organizing your DNS? by Tim+Rooney · · Score: 1 · on Organizing Your DNS?

    I work for International Network Services (INS) so I'll throw our hat in the ring with our IPAM product, IPControl. IPControl provides many features to manage IP address space, DNS, and DHCP in one integrated web interface. We offer software or appliance platforms, and IPControl can manage your existing Windows, ISC, or BIND DHCP and DNS services. The web GUI provides a simpler interface for configuring complex DHCP/DNS server parameters, from DHCP failover to DNS views, to TSIG keys and much more.