Review: Exchange Server Replacements By Ron Anderson
We tested third-party Exchange Server replacements that offer Outlook users full-featured mail, calendaring, group scheduling and task management.
Feature: RFI: Network & Systems Management Services By Bruce Boardman
For big business, outsourced network management is becoming the rage. But does it make sense for smaller businesses? It depends on your cost structure and your tolerance for relinquishing control.
Review: Network & Systems Management Services By Bruce Boardman
Most network-management providers won't offer aggressive service or huge cost savings to small and midsize businesses. But we pushed and prodded and finally got PerformanceIT to give our fictional food chain quite a deal.
Workshops
Workshop: Security Product Certification By Mike Fratto
Security certification can be the equivalent of in-depth testing without the legwork, but you need to know how to determine its value.
Interactive Buyer's Guide: 802.11b Access Points
To be included in our interactive charts, the wireless access point must conform to the IEEE 802.11b and/or 802.11a standards. See which ones do, and the multitude of features they offer.
Sneak Previews
NetScaler's Secure Application Switch By Lori MacVittie
Get the choice of four SC/1 copper GB interfaces or five copper GB interfaces--a big improvement in request-processing capabilities.
Online-Only: Heroix's eQ Management Suite 2.0 By Andy Woods
Designed as a one-stop server and application monitor, HMS has predefined solutions for measuring every little detail of an application or infrastructure device for a variety of platforms.
Novell's NetWare 6.5 By James E. Drews
Novell has packed in a ton of open-source and developer friendly enhancements.
Cisco's Aironet 1400 By Joel Conover
This wireless bridge is easy to set up and comes with a handy hardware bundle, but at steep price.
Departments
Centerfold: Unisys Wireless Golf Scoring System By Ron Anderson
Unisys' wireless Golf Scoring System went mobile at this year's U.S. Open. Here's how the company ensures the system's reliability, predictability and performance.
Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey
This Edition: What to do when hiring requires a "committee;" and convincing the boss to keep IT in-house.
Letters
"I agree that many online IT educational institutions suffer from a stigma, but it is not deserved." -Steve Delahunty
Quick Takes
Sun Microsystems' Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2; Altusen's LCD Console KVM Switch; Visual Numerics' JMSL Numerical Library 2.5 for Java Applications; and Symantec's ManHunt 3.0.
Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim
The Top 11 unsaid reasons Larry Ellison wants PeopleSoft; IT mysteries solved; and Caution: editor detected!
Columns
Down to Business: Why IT Matters By Robert Preston
What ultimately distinguishes an organization is how it manages technologies and aligns them with business goals.
BuzzCut: Public Key Without the Middleman By Robert G. Moskowitz
Products incorporating a new elliptic-curve cryptography method called Weil Pairings are now being released.
BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Michael J. DeMaria
Microsoft announces the end of the line for Internet Explorer on the Mac.
App Attitude: How Much Is That? By Lori MacVittie
The task of pricing out any software is daunting and leaves many IT staffers scratching their heads.
BuzzCut: IBM Does Morphogenic Computing By Don MacVittie
There are glimmers of hope that the company will produce tools to make your life easier and your systems more stable.
REPORTS
Analyize In-Line NAC strategies and products.
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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