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| Special Coverage: 2003 Well-Connected Awards |
Feature: The 9th Annual Well-Connected Awards This year's Well-Connected Award winners span 35 categories in seven core markets. Find out which ones made the grade, as well as which product got our overall product of the year award.
• Our complete list of category winners • The 2003 Well-Connected Awards (Streaming Video) • The Best of our Well-Connected Awards' "Uncommericals" (requires RealPlayer) |
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Review: Arming Your Top Security Guns By Patrick Mueller Cenzic's Hailstorm Protocol Modeler isn't for everyone, but if you can swing the cost and you know an RFC violation from a SQL disclosure vulnerability, it's the tool for you. |
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Feature: Don't Panic. Plan By Mike Fratto When you connect to the Internet, or to any external network, there are dangers. But if you pinpoint the sources and types of exposure, you can manage your risk. |
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Workshop: Clearing Database Network Clogs By Don MacVittie Databases are more likely than ever to cause network congestion. We examine how to fine-tune the ways your client application queries the database so you can break up those bottlenecks. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: LAN Protocol Analyzers Today's LAN protocol analyzers are capable of negotiating a host of protocols and providing a multitude of monitoring/ recording features. Whether you're looking to generate packet storms, monitor Server Message Block transactions or simply decode IP packets, we'll help you navigate the available offerings. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Always On WLAN Monitoring By Saurabh Bhasin Guard 3.0 offers an around-the-clock wireless monitoring system that identifies security risks and attacks, provides real-time network audits and monitors the overall health of the wireless LAN. |
| The Little HP Server that Can By Michael Brandenburg I kicked the tires on Hewlett-Packard's latest eight-way server and discovered a Corvette engine in a Neon chassis. The ProLiant DL740 has the horsepower to drive large applications like those from SAP or PeopleSoft and does so in a compact 4U form. |
| A Better Windows Watcher By Lori MacVittie For small and midsize enterprises that need a thorough network-analysis tool, NetRAT (Network Resource Analysis Tool) offers insight into the entire network, but is most proficient at delving into Windows machines. |
| Departments |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This edition: The skinny on noncompete agreements; and the dangers of comparing salaries with co-workers. |
| Last Mile Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This edition: Top 11 reasons to let AOL filter your e-mail for spam; what has your brand consultant been smoking?; and Vax bar. |
| Letters "What's really missing from tech support and product documentation is the empirical knowledge of the user." --James W. Turner |
| Quick Takes We take peeks at St. Bernard UpdateExpert 6.0, Winternals Recovery Manager and Iona Mobile Orchestrator. |
| Columns |
| Full Nelson: Speak Our Language By Fritz Nelson "It's about selling an image; product be damned. Sort out the details later." |
| Down to Business: Bring on the Innovators By Rob Preston "Even as profit margins narrow, innovators will pile in. Evidently, there's always room for more." |
| BuzzCut: Microsoft Redefines 'Sharing' By Don MacVittie Redmond hopes their "Shared Source" initiative shows they're becoming more "open" and that you don't need open source. Unfortunately, it doesn't. |
| BuzzCut: IBM's Office Alternative Not For Users By Lori MacVittie IBM has designs on entering the already crowded office-suite market. But Big Blue won't do so on Microsoft's terms. |
| BuzzCut: Surf Control Stamps Out IM By Mike DeMaria Their Instant Message Filter for controlling instant messaging and peer-to-peer traffic has caught the eye of the press, but not in a good way. |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Mike Fratto Should IT shops hire security personnel with criminal records? |
| BuzzCut: Toward Responsible Mail Servers By Ron Anderson Microsoft updated its APIs to help antivirus and antispam vendors better integrate their wares into the message flow of Exchange 2003. But should mail-server vendors abdicate responsibility for the proliferation of viruses and spam to third parties? |
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