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Review: Defense Starts Here By Michael J. DeMaria Deep inside the perimeter, your desktops and laptops are vulnerable. We tested five desktop firewalls designed to protect your endpoints. |
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Feature: Come and Get It By Sean Doherty Pick up the pace and stop messing around with separate message sources for voicemail, e-mail and fax. A unified-messaging system lets your users stay informed and in touch. |
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Review: Plugging the Communications Time Drain By Sean Doherty That giant sucking sound you hear is your users wasting valuable time channeling multiple e-mail, fax and voicemail streams. We tested two unified-messaging systems, Cisco Unity and Interactive's Communite. Read why Interactive's offering was our pick! |
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Workshop: Making Layer 7 Work for You By Lori MacVittie Content networking at Layer 7 is an integral part of a well-designed infrastructure. Learn how to avoid latency problems and make the best use of a Layer 7 device. |
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Buyer's Guide: Are Biometrics The Answer? By Mike Fratto Biometric authentication looks sexy. But before you start scanning, consider some of its negatives. We help you put a finger on the right choice! View the Interactive Buyer's Guide |
| Sneak Previews |
| Xdrive Plus Xdrive By Steven J. Schuchart Jr. Xdrive takes the frustration out of file sharing with its competitive, secure, controllable and affordable file-sharing service. |
| A 'Shore' Thing By Lee Badman Shore's SM-2601F Gigabit Link Protector makes sure your vital gigabit links stay up. |
| Multisystem Monitoring By Lori MacVittie This monitoring software runs on multiple platforms, can use SNMP and offers customized reports. |
| Departments |
| Career Coach An army reservist ponders what will happen to his small business if he's called to active duty. |
| Last Mile This edition: Top 11 unusual source code comments; words we should ban; and the Bar Monkey. |
| Letters "Vendor participation [in reviews] is seen as a desire to improve, not to protect." --Mike Klinkowski |
| Quick Takes We take sneak peeks at Foundry Networks 10-Gigabit Ethernet Module, Compuware Vantage 8.5, Information Builders WebFocus 5 and FatPipe MPVPN 3.0. |
| Columns |
| Down to Business: Linux is Here to Stay By Rob Preston "Linux will gain ground because the big system vendors--IBM, HP, Dell and even Sun--are behind it." |
| BuzzCut: Opening Up the Airwaves By Dave Molta Despite some technical obstacles that currently let 2.4-GHz products boast better range than 5-GHz products, bandwidth is the name of the game in the long run. |
| BuzzCut: Systems Management, Red Hat Style By Bruce Boardman and Andy Woods The Linux distributor's forthcoming management framework is intended to give enterprise IT shops another good reason to adopt Linux. |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Don MacVittie We bust the "vulnerability" in CVS, the source-code repository used by many open-source projects. |
| BuzzCut: SQL Sapphire: It's Not Only Microsoft's Fault By Mike Fratto and Don MacVittie You really have to stop blaming Microsoft for every little ill that comes your way. |
| BuzzCut: ID Management: Technology Isn't Enough By Ron Anderson Without organizational buy-in, you're doomed from the start -- no matter what the technology. |
| Industry Insights: Testing Matters By Mike Lee "You ask vendors how to fix their broken software. Now ask them how they limit the number of programming errors." |
| The IT Agenda: Move Beyond the Free Lunch By Jonathan Feldman "Chargebacks can pay off big time once you implement a well- thought-out system and work through the lingering kinks." |
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