Feature: Early Warning System By David Joachim
A data-mining application originally conceived to forecast staffing and supply needs now helps Children's Hospital Boston spot bioterrorism outbreaks.
Feature: Proxies Add a Protective Shield By Jeff Forristal
Web security proxies -- aka, Web application firewalls -- can detect and mitigate common attacks, but configuration is crucial. Kavado InterDo and Sanctum AppShield ran neck-and-neck, but AppShield captured the top spot -- for now.
Feature: Technology ROI: The Siemens Formula By Klaus Stegemann
Your company's reputation depends on the products and services you develop. Find out how Klaus Stegemann, executive vice president and CFO at Siemens, evaluates proposals that have the potential to take a piece out of the company's $5.4 billion research & development pie.
Feature: Special Series: The IT Agenda By Jonathan Feldman
Painfully aware of their customers' hypersensitivity to technology ROI discussions, vendors are hell-bent on convincing us their products are worth buying. But can TLAs (three-letter acronyms), buzzwords and indiscriminate spending benefit your organization? We think not, and we bet you concur.
Feature: Projects That Defy ROI By David Joachim
It's one thing for your bosses to insist on a business justification for IT projects that clearly cut costs or generate revenue. But what about those initiatives that do neither? We're alluding to technologies that wouldn't exist in a world in which nothing went wrong.
Workshops
Workshop: Making the Case For Both Disk and Tape By Steven Schuchart Jr.
If you're still reeling from an excruciatingly slow tape backup, consider this: Emerging disk-to-disk technology could change all that.
Sneak Preview: Venturing Into the Wireless Future By Jesse Lindeman
Anticipating the rush of 802.11g products expected this year, Buffalo Technologies introduced a draft-compliant 802.11g access point. We tested their AirStation g54 Broadband Router AP in our Syracuse University Real-World Labs(R) and found that with the standard still to be finalized, there's a big gap between expectation and reality.
Sneak Preview: One For All By Michael J. DeMaria
The Crossbeam X40 is a scalable, consolidated system with hot-swappable, redundant components that houses load-balancers, high-performance, high-availability firewalls, VPNs, antivirus products and IDSs (intrusion-detection systems) in a huge 17U chassis. And best of all, it's easy to configure and works as advertised.
Sneak Preview: Adomo Brings Your E-mail to Life By Don MacVittie
What if your remote users could send and receive e-mail over the telephone from anywhere, conducting business without a screen? Adomo makes it possible with its AdomoMCS for Exchange--an e-mail-to-voice gateway for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 2000.
Departments
Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey
Entry-Level job pays the bills, but how do you beat the boredom? Also, can an interviewer ask about your sick leave?
Last Mile
This edition: Top 11 signs your ISP has given you up to the RIAA as a dangerous KaZaA user; unfortunate product names; and our favorite skunk works.
Letters
"Legacy network-management solutions do not readily adapt to customer-specific processes." --Bill Ross
Centerfold: Tools For Being a Better Web Host By Kelly Jackson Higgins
What you don't know can hurt you, especially if you're a Web hosting provider trying to keep on top of your service-level agreements.
Quick Takes
We take sneak peeks at NetSupport Manager; SMC Networks Barricade; NetPro Secure ADLS; and Array Networks Array SP
Columns
Down to Business: Creating Business Value By Rob Preston
Without credibility, you're nothing. You'll be getting in the way of your company's ability to leverage technology to boost its bottom line.
FUDBusters: Cisco Buys Network Security Software Vendor Okena By Greg Shipley
At first glance you might see the Okena acquisition as Cisco breaking away from its device-centric view of the world, but look closely and you'll see it reflects Cisco's struggle to get its security act together.
BuzzCut: The Age of iSCSI By Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
The promise of true block-based storage on an IP network using current infrastructures has been long awaited. In the next year you'll see a bevy of new products followed by early adoptions and test systems.
BuzzCut: Novell Ships NetWare 6.5 Beta, Now Featuring Kitchen Sink By Ron Anderson
Novell's newest version of NetWare features improvements to iFolder, iPrint and iManage. It also adds Web services capabilities complements of its SilverStream Software acquisition.
Security Watch: The WLAN's Weakest Link By Robert Moskowitz
"After two years of rousing debate, the body responsible for the Wi-Fi standard is finally putting the finishing touches on its new security standard, IEEE 802.11i. Although this standard's Robust Security Network feature will deliver the level of security the wireless world is clamoring for, don't be fooled: Your wireless network won't be secure until your transition to RSN is complete."
BuzzCut: Microsoft Defies Human Nature With Built-in Bug Catcher By Lori MacVittie
Microsoft says it will equip its Visual Studio .Net with a plug-in from security software vendor Sanctum designed to catch common security vulnerabilities at development time. The fact that this news is lauded as a great move is indicative of many companies' failure to adequately enforce security and coding policies.
BuzzCut: IBM Redoes DB2 as Data Integrator By Sean Doherty
IBM continues to transform DB2 from a database-management system into a data-management system with the introduction of DB2 Information Integrator (II) 8.1
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