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Feature: On Location with Life Time Fitness -- How Offshore Outsourcing Failed Us By Wesley Bertch The director of software systems at Life Time Fitness shares the company's experiences--and struggles--when it attempted to outsource work to a top Indian firm. |
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Feature: WS-Security Gateways By Lori MacVittie The promise of Web services is mighty tempting, but beware of the technology's security vulnerabilities. WS-Security gateways can help ensure your data's safety. |
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Review: WS-Security Gateway Vendors By Lori MacVittie and Jeff Forristal Is your Layer 7 firewall letting in treacherous XML traffic? All six of the WS-Security gateways we tested can help thwart invaders, but Forum Systems' Sentry stood tall for our Editor's Choice. |
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Workshop: Delivering Content to Handhelds By Sean Doherty Without enterprise content, a handheld device is just a flashy gadget. We'll show you how to deliver information and applications that turn PDAs and mobile phones into true business tools. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: Web MiddleWare If you haven't faced a purchasing decision on middleware products yet, it's only a matter of time. Use our interactive charts to compare offerings and make the right decision for your IT needs. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Extended Systems' OneBridge Mobile Groupware By Sean Ginevan This software lets the most widely used devices connect to your network and provides real-time synchronization with some enterprise PIM servers. |
| Clearsight Networks' Gigabit Analyzer By Lee Badman This tool answers the challenges of decoding high-speed, high-capacity networks--all with user-friendly ease. |
| Cisco's CallManager Express and Unity Express By Joel Conover Designed for the autonomous branch office, Cisco's latest adds an IP telephony key system and voicemail support to its 2600XM, 2691 and 3700 series routers. |
| Departments |
| Centerfold: Southern Co.: A Smarter Storage Strategy By Kelley Jackson Higgins After an accounting server failed during a month-end close--resulting in 30 hours of data recovery--archiving has quickly became the utility company's new mantra. |
| Quick Takes This Edition: NetBotz CCTV Adapter Pod; NextPage NXT 4; Akiva WebMeeting Appliance 3.0; and nCipher netHSM. |
| Letters "William of Occam said that if you have two equally effective solutions, the simpler of the two is better." ~ Chuck Wasere |
| Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This Edition: Top 11 lame excuses given by the Blaster Worm suspect; Geek signatures; Who's Online? |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This Edition: The blackout of 2003 has one IT professional pondering future disaster recovery--and preparation. Also, implementing an HR management system. |
| Columns |
| Industry Insights: External Validation By Mike Lee We consider every one of you--our peers--to be a valuable adviser. We're open to hearing your ideas and concerns. |
| Buzzcut: Tracking Desktop Spies By Robert G. Moskowitz Desktop spying; it happens. But the tables turn when spies slip into the enterprise via malicious Web pages, as is the case with LoveSpy. |
| Buzzcut: FUDBusters Bradley F. Shimmin Google acquires personalization vendor Kaltix. |
| Developing Trends: One Tool Doesn't Cut It By Don MacVittie Those who know more than one language can deliver solutions that address business needs more quickly. |
| Buzzcut: Migration Pain in the Real World By Lori MacVittie Faced with a lack of support from some of the application infrastructure vendors we chose for our fictional company, NWC Inc., which we use to test enterprise apps against simulated traffic and transaction data, we've decided to make some changes. |
| Buzzcut: Microsoft Embraces BIOS Vendor Phoenix By Steven J. Schuchart Jr The reality of the agreement will mean fewer choices for customers and more control for Microsoft. |
| BuzzCut: The Trade-Offs of On-Demand Computing By Don MacVittie The press seems to be missing the point about IBM's Virtual Server Service, which gives customers on-demand server space. |
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