RSS
|
|
| |
| May 15, 2003 | |
|
Sort
by >> Features Workshops Sneak Previews Departments Columns |
|
|
|
|
| Features |
|
Review: iSCSI Adapters By Steven J. Schuchart Jr. Storage vendors are taking the plunge into iSCSI, but CPU utilization is a big concern. Adaptec's 7211C adapter floats to the top for its consistent performance and competitive price. |
|
Feature: Wireless Hotspots Heat Up By Dave Molta Several years ago, we recognized that a commoditized market for Wi-Fi, driven largely by mass consumer adoption of home networking, would drive the broader enterprise market. Given the technology's limited coverage, however, it's hard to imagine how anyone will turn wide-area Wi-Fi into a profitable business endeavor. |
|
Review: Wireless HotSpots By Peter Rysavy Our fictitious company, McDonald and Seifert Engineering (MSE), issued an RFI to hotspot service providers AT&T Wireless, Boingo Wireless, Deep Blue Wireless, Gric Communications, Hotspotzz, iPass, Surf and Sip, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Wayport. After perusing the RFIs, we selected aggregator Boingo Wireless as our Editor's Choice. |
|
Feature: NetWorld+Interop Best of Show Awards By Ron Anderson NetWorld+Interop offers wares to fill your every networking need ... even those you never knew you had. This year, 124 vendors submitted 172 products for consideration in 10 categories. Check out the best of the best as well as all the rest. |
| Workshops |
|
Workshop: The New Face of Authentication By Dilip Advani There's a certifiably better way to block intruders from your network: IEEE 802.1x, a low-overhead authentication standard that's catching on fast, especially for wireless LANs. |
|
Buyer's Guide: Linux Distributions By Lori MacVittie We examine such key Linux distribution factors as hardware, software and technical support, management and training. Follow a process of elimination to select the vendor that best satisfies your needs. |
|
Interactive Buyer's Guide: Linux Distributions Whether you're looking to update a desktop, laptop or server with GNU/Linux, our cross-feature comparative database can help you select the best product. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Gold Wire Technology's Formulator 200 By Bruce Boardman Formulator 200 can help you manage and protect infrastructure device configurations across a multivendor network. |
| WinInstall LE 2003 By Christopher T. Beers It's time to streamline application installation at your site, which means taking the time to create a Microsoft Windows Installer. Instead of setting aside an entire day for this task, take a look at no-cost WinInstall LE (Light Edition) 2003. |
| ITWorx NetCelera By Sean Doherty NetCelera expands the capacity of low-bandwidth links by compressing the data volume and multiplexing it over the WAN. In short, the appliance lets you do more with less bandwidth. |
| Departments |
| Letters "A lack of financial skills among IT staff is not the root of the problem." --Ingmar Leliveld |
| Last Mile Edited By Brad Shimmin and Dave Joachim In this edition: The Top 11 reasons Al Gore joined the board of Apple Computer; 'W' is for windows and worms; and the user from hell. |
| Quick Takes We take a look at: Hewlett-Packard's HP LaserJet 1300 and 2300 Series; IntelliReach's MessageArchive 2.0; Pedestal Software's SecurityExpressions 3.0; and SnapGear's PCI630. |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This edition: Moving to a new state--one IT professional needs tips on securing a new job. Plus, what happened to overtime? |
| Columns |
| What Lies Beneath: A Spare is Just a Spare By Peter Morrissey "Before you introduce a redundancy scheme, you must understand exactly how the product works." |
| BuzzCut: Security Vendors Pack in Features By Michael J. DeMaria A natural technological evolution or simply a marketing gimmick? |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Darrin Woods WorldCom files a plan to reorganize and change its brand name to MCI. Is it too little, too late? |
| Down to Business: How To Contain Spam By Rob Preston "Spam can be managed without breaking the bank or creating yet another legal morass." |
| Industry Insight: Wearing Two Hats By Mike Lee "Capitalism loves a good innovator. I've got my propeller hat at hand, so let's look at the innovation phenomenon from a technologist's point of view." |
| BuzzCut: CDNs Vendors Hope To Cache In By Don MacVittie Although the initial market for content-delivery networks has dried up, CDN vendors haven't stood still. Their products now include many features that appeal to the enterprise market. |
| BuzzCut: CyberGuard Rolls Out All-in-One Security Manager By Mike Fratto It's a daunting task for any vendor to manage its own offerings effectively, let alone another vendor's products. But CyberGuard Corp. promises to let security administrators do just that with its iGlobal Command Center. |
| BuzzCut: WLANs Make Connections at N+I
By Dave Molta Networld+Interop has morphed into a Vegas-style megashow, highlighting whatever network-oriented technology the organizers believe will fill the convention halls. This year it was the wireless LAN. |
 |
| • Past Issue Archive |
Best of the Web
Data deduplication: Declawing the clones
Data deduplication is emerging as a critically important new arrow in the storage administrator's quiver to answer hard questions about the increasing problem in storage growth costs.
Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows
One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system.
WAN Optimization Whitelists and Blacklists
Optimization is a fantastic way of saving money and creating really happy customers at the same time, but it doesn't work flawlessly for all applications.
WAN Optimization as a Managed Service: It's Not About the Cost
This insight examines how organizations outsourcing their WAN optimization initiatives to a third-party go about achieving their goals for application performance, reducing operational costs, and streamlining enterprise infrastructure.
Sponsored Links
