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Features
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.
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.
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®

Workshops
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.
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.
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.

Departments
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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