Review: Scanning the Airwaves By Dave Molta & Dilip Advani
Handheld wireless LAN analyzers put monitoring and troubleshooting data about your WLAN directly into the hands of your field technicians. We examined four products and bestowed top honors on AirMagnet's device.
Feature: On Location: Air Power By David Joachim
At McCarran International Airport, information is as important to airport operations as terminals and runways. And Randall Walker, who runs the Las Vegas airport, makes sure IT has the resources to keep the place running smoothly.
Feature: On Location: First-Class IT Service By Jonathan Feldman
Maintaining top-notch customer and tenant service is high on the agenda at McCarran International Airport. Any IT system that has such a profound effect on so many customers--2,710,352 passengers passed through the Las Vegas airport in February 2003 alone--had better be reliable.
Workshops
Workshop: It's Time to Take a Look at SIP By Peter Morrissey
Session Initiation Protocol is here, and it works. We examine how this versatile signaling protocol can help you set up collaborative multimedia conferencing and voice-enabled e-commerce.
Buyer's Guide: Invest in a Cable Tester By Lee Badman
Unchecked problems at the physical layer can resonate all the way up to your applications. But today's slick, standards-based cable testers ferret out bad wiring.
Interactive Buyer's Guide: Cable Testers
Whether you're looking for traffic patterns or want to debug a protocol miscue or simply monitor a troublesome link, use our buyer's guide to help compare cable testers across 25 features and criteria.
Sneak Previews
Cover Your Assets ... Remotely By Michael Brandenburg
Procom's ProMobile pairs a PDA-size USB 2.0 external hard drive with a flexible backup application, providing portable automated backup for your data.
Absolute Power By Lee Badman
Electrical power may not be glamorous, but it's crucial to any network. Cyclades Corp.'s new AlterPath PM8 IPDU (intelligent power-distribution unit) will manage your electrical power for you, and help you build an overall data-center fault-management strategy.
Giving Spreadsheets Extra Juice By Lori MacVittie
With the imminent release of Microsoft Office 11, vendors of related products are jockeying for position. Juice Software's client-server suite--though expensive--builds on Excel, turning it into a real-time, collaborative environment.
Departments
Last Mile Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Dave Joachim
This Edition: Top 11 reasons Microsoft exhibits at open-source trade shows; mistaken indemnity; and crystal-ball clear.
Letters
"Most organizations will not realize the benefits IT can provide until they adjust their business practices." --Tom Clifford
Quick Takes
We take peeks at NetVision Integrated Security Policy Management 4.0, KnowledgeBase Solutions KnowledgeBase.net 3.0, Interwoven OpenDeploy 5.6 and Sarvega XESOS Studio.
Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey
This week: seeking a management role and a LAN administrator ponders if a master's degree might help.
Columns
BuzzCut: 2003 Server Mystery By Lori MacVittie
Microsoft is encouraging customers to migrate to Windows Server 2003, but it's not clear why they should. And Microsoft isn't helping them build a business case to do so.
BuzzCut: BFUDBuster By Ron Anderson
Microsoft has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court's ruling that requires the company to include Sun's Java with Windows XP.
Industry Insights: Retirement Planning By Mike Lee
"You have to continually evaluate new products so you know the options should you need to make a change."
BuzzCut: Sun Scraps Its Own Linux By Don MacVittie
Sun Microsystems says it will stop developing its own Linux distribution for x86 and will instead support other vendors' distributions. If you're a Sun customer and/or are interested in Linux, this is good news. http://www.nwc.com/1407/1407buzz2.html
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Though raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and job security’s shrinking, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's 2009 IT Salary Survey. Available FREE for a limited time.
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