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Survivor's Guide to 2003 By Mike Lee Don't face the coming year alone. Our editors are here to help you identify the most important technologies and trends in seven categories. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Security By Mike Fratto Make a New Year's resolution to off-load everyday tasks as well as to spend time researching and implementing new security technologies. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Mobile and Wireless By Dave Molta Embedded wireless capabilities, enterprise digital assistants and smart antennas will emerge next year, but 2003 also will see some major barriers remain unbroken. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Network & Systems Management By Bruce Boardman Tactical products are running circles around their strategic rivals. Think of 2003 as the year the cheap, quick and dirty get a jump on the big, complex and expensive. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Storage & Server Technology By Steven J. Schuchart Jr. New DVD formats and high-capacity ATA-based devices--we show you the best places to keep all this information. A lot is in "store" for 2003. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Infrastructure By Peter Morrissey What's inside is what counts. Strengthen your backbone, smarten up your network and balance your traffic--but don't expect prices to come tumbling down just yet. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Business Applications By Lori MacVittie This year, the applications market has seen sweeping changes, with Web services finally making it into the mainstream. You can look forward to some intriguing developments in 2003, too. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide to Digital Convergence By Sean Doherty This will be the year to come to grips with network delay, jitter and packet loss, to implement network QoS and to apply content-delivery technologies. |
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2003 Survivor's Guide: The Business Case By David Joachim Some experts are souring on conventional ROI analysis because the numbers seem to come out of thin air. Here's what's coming next. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Xandros Propels Desktop Linux By Lori Macvittie With its Microsoft Explorer look and feel, Xandros' new operating system aims to prove Linux is ready for the desktop. |
| Symphone Organizes and Takes Calls By Saurabh Bhasin If your environment combines PDAs and WLANs or you are planning to deploy one that does, take a look at this voice-over-WLAN application. |
| Analyze This! The AirMagnet's Laptop Mobile WLAN Analyzer By Dilip Advani This laptop wireless analyzer is convenient, but no substitute for a true wireless protocol analyzer. |
| Departments |
| Letters "The old school network repair shop mentality will eventually become a relic." -- R. Beaufait |
| Last Mile This edition: Top 11 unlikely IT headlines for 2003; our holiday wish list; and a Network Computing shopping list. |
| Columns |
| The Inside Story: One for All By Jim Hutchinson "The word survival means so much more than picking the right technology and figuring out how to justify the cost." |
| Down to Business: Outsmarting the Trends By Rob Preston "Tech vendors must come to grips with the fact that their products no longer evoke wonderment." |
| Full Nelson: Technology Accountability By Fritz Nelson Does financial pressure during software license negotiations leave you wondering: What would Winona Ryder do? |
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