Review: Instant Messaging Software By Michael J. DeMaria
We tested seven IM products that are installed locally to keep users' passwords safe on your network. They also provide chat rooms, conferencing, screen sharing, video, broadcasting and other collaboration capabilities.
Feature: Vulnerability Management By Greg Shipley
The heart of any security effort is to become less vulnerable. As with many information-security challenges, the solution lies partly with technology, partly with tactics and partly with strategy.
Review: Vulnerability-Assessment Tools By Kevin Novak
Network-based vulnerability-assessment scanners play a critical role in the risk identification process by enabling their operators to spot security deficiencies before the bad guys do.
Workshops
Workshop: Long-Term Data Storage By Steven J. Schuchart Jr
We've bid a not-so-fond farewell to microfiche, but storing data today presents a new set of challenges. Here are our tips on how to write and enforce a long-term storage policy with legal and company goals in mind.
Interactive Buyer's Guide: Tape Autoloaders
As enterprise data increases, storage requirements increase. Fortunately, tape autoloaders are available to meet virtually any demand. We'll help you select the best solution with our cross-feature comparative database.
Sneak Previews
Network Associates' McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0 By Christopher T. Beers
Here's music to the ears of network admins: ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0 manages security products from multiple vendors, enforces security policies and produces detailed reports from a central console.
Fluke's OptiView WAN Analyzer By Lee Badman
To round out the picture of real-time network diagnostics, Fluke Networks is offering customer-friendly WAN analysis in the form of its new OptiView WAN Analyzer product line.
Redline Networks' T|X 2650 Web Acceleration Device By Lori MacVittie
The T|X 2650 Web I/O Accelerator provides compression, load-balancing and reverse-proxy functionality to breathe new life into legacy hardware, saving you the cost of purchasing newer, expensive machines.
Departments
Quick Takes
We look at eHelp Corp.'s RoboHelp X4; Eset Software's NOD32 2.0; Netsec's Specter 7.0; and Eiffel Software's EnVision 1.1.
Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey
This Edition: Do online college degrees carry the same weight as traditional ones? Also, getting management to agree on hiring an IT trainer.
Letters
"No customer should trust any 'utility' with anything beyond the most trivial in-house tasks." --Ronald H. Tatum
Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim
This edition: Top 11 Signs your Summer Intern is insane; The BOFH; Our Favorite 404 Page.
Columns
Down to Business: Showers Still Likely By Robert Preston
Don't count on any single economic indicator, vendor prognostication, trend or stat to point the way to dry land.
Legal Eagle: Patent Impending By Sean Doherty
How do the standards bodies get rid of the thorn known as hiding relevant patent information during the standardization process?
BuzzCut: Smart WLAN Cells By Dave Molta
Propagate, a start-up based in Acton, MA, has developed software that allows for the implementation of what is called self-organizing wireless LANs.
BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Lori MacVittie
We speculate on the impact of Microsoft's unofficial announcement that it will terminate Internet Explorer as a standalone application.
BuzzCut: Microsoft Sweetens Sour Licensing Scheme By Sean Doherty
Engineers may still believe that technology sells products, but businessmen and lawyers will tell you otherwise. You need to put the technology in a product, license it and couple it with a service.
BuzzCut: Warning: Linux Desktops Ahead By Don MacVittie
With Ximian's introduction of Ximian Desktop 2 (XD2), get ready for the heterogeneous network--again.
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ANALYTICS Plan and design your enterprise blade server deployments
2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
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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