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Feature: E-Mail Without Wires By Dave Molta After finding a wireless hotspot provider, our fictional company turned its sights on a wireless e-mail service. See which of the six RFI respondents best met its wireless communication needs. |
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Feature: Security Policy Monitoring Systems--Got Discipline? By Mike Fratto Although there's no magic bullet that will make your organization compliant with HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or ISO 17799, you can interpret applicable portions of the regulations into policies that can then be enforced and monitored. Our motto: Speak softly and carry a big yardstick. |
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Review: Security Policy Monitoring Apps--The Policy Enforcers By Mike Fratto Security policies are the blueprint that show how everything comes together, and policy-monitoring applications keep the engine humming. To help you clear up the confusion surrounding these products, we tested seven security policy monitors in our Syracuse University Real-World Labs® |
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Workshop: Desktop Management Enlightenment By James E. Drews With key features such as policy-based management of user accounts, ZENworks can help you manage and keep an accurate inventory of your diverse desktops, operating systems and applications. |
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Centerfold: National Weather Service: Building a Better Forecast Model
By Kelley Jackson Higgins The National Weather Service's new graphical forecasting system and relational database are making it easier to predict the weather. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: Remote Access & Authentication Servers We compare and contrast remote-access servers across 19 features, including hardware components, support for one or more modem connections and the ability to negotiate common dial-up protocols. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Network Physics NP/BizFlow-1000 By Andy Woods The NP/BizFlow-1000 high-speed Internet traffic manager monitors up to 400 Mbps of traffic and does TCP/UDP flow tracking. But watch out for the price. |
| Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 By Jim Ryan To coax customers to leap ahead to Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is trying to convince them that the migration isn't an expense, but rather an investment that can improve their bottom lines by reducing network-management expenses by 20 percent or more. |
| Nortel Network's Contivity 5000 Secure IP Services Gateway By Mike Fratto We tested the Contivity 5000's new hardware and software in the Syracuse University Real-World Labs(R) and, quite frankly, other VPN products have some catching up to do. |
| Online-Only: eEye Digital Security's Enterprise Web Protection By Jeff Forristal EWP integrates eEye's SecureIIS product with its REM Events Server and REM Events Manager components. Enterprise Web Protection provides a framework to manage SecureIIS security events in trouble-ticket fashion. |
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| Quick Takes We look at AlterPoint's DeviceAuthority 1.1, Castle Rock Computing's SNMPc Workgroup and Enterprise 6.0, F5 Networks' iControl Services Manager and Neon Software's LANsurveyor 7.1. |
| Letters Edited By Lorna Garey "We need to hold our vendors' feet to the fire and tell them we want longer upgrade cycles and better software." --Name withheld by request |
| Last Mile Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This edition: Top 11 signs your server room needs a spring cleaning; Networld+Interop Notes; and Daypop Refrigerator Poetry. |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This edition: His wife is pregnant, but his employer won't let him take leave. Can the FMLA help? Also: Convincing the boss that telecommuting is justified. |
| Columns |
| BuzzCut: Virtual Server Not Really Ready for Prime Time By Ron Anderson Microsoft released its first beta of Virtual Server amid hype asserting that the product should be considered for deployment in your production environments. |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Lori MacVittie Gartner's latest report on the J2EE application server market says IBM has pulled ahead of BEA Systems. |
| Down to Business: Freshness-Dated IT Service Model By Rob Preston Where the IT utility model holds more immediate promise is in metering hardware capacity. |
| Mr. Management: Slow Train to Config Management By Bruce Boardman The SNMP Configuration Working Group has nearly completed its work to leverage SNMP as a configuration mechanism. |
| BuzzCut: Fear-Mongering in Las Vegas By Dave Molta In an effort to sell its WLAN security products, AirDefense highlighted what it considered lax security at the recent NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas. |
| BuzzCut: Chasing the On-Demand Data Center By Bruce Boardman With Hewlett-Packard's recently launched Adaptive Enterprise initiative, the company is attempting to leverage its merger with Compaq to create integrated, highly flexible IT solutions. The trouble is, not every company is on a level with HP/Compaq. |
| BuzzCut: Paging Dr. Watson ... By Lori MacVittie Microsoft recently talked up an online version of its Dr. Watson error-reporting tool, targeting corporate developers looking to solve problems with both custom and Microsoft products. This is interesting, but it's old technology news. |
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