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Feature: Disaster Recovery Planning By Jon William Toigo If your disaster recovery setup isn't up to speed, you're playing a high-stakes game with your organization's critical business and financial data. We explore the DR strategies that can tilt the odds in your favor. |
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Review: Disaster Recovery Services By Jon William Toigo Although five vendors vied to help our fictional retailer, Darwin Groceries, fortify its disaster recovery strategy, Fujitsu Softek was the one we dropped into our shopping cart. |
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Review: Network-Based VPN Services By Darrin Woods An IP VPN can provide higher bandwidth at lower costs than a Frame Relay network. We evaluated services from four worthy competitors. Newcomer Virtela offered the best value, with its combination of security, ease of migration and comprehensive SLA. |
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Feature: On Location: McCarran International Airport By David Joachim We fly back into Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport as it breaks new ground with the deployment of an RFID baggage-handling system. |
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Workshop: WLAN Design By Jesse Lindeman Building a wireless LAN is no easy job. For starters, you must assess your infrastructure's RF environment and map out access point placement to help ensure good performance. Don't be intimidated; we'll help get you started. |
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Buyer's Guide: Handheld Storage By Steven J. Schuchart, Jr. New handheld storage devices offer increased capacity, but IT faces new compatibility, cost and business suitability challenges. Read up before you buy. | View our Interactive Buyer's Guide on Handheld Storage |
| Sneak Previews |
| CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine 2.5 By Lee Badman The latest version rounds up rogue APs to keep your wireless network secure. |
| Nortel Networks Alteon Application Switch 2424-SSL By Lori MacVittie Switch delivers twice the performance of other load-balancing solutions. |
| Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition By Steven Hill A powerful centralized management tool was added to the drive-cloning software. |
| Departments |
| Career Coach Edited by Lorna Garey This Edition: How can I ask for more money without putting my job in jeopardy? |
| Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim Top 11 Favorite inventions of 2003; Geek Tattoos; and Nintendo Online Emulator. |
| Quick Takes By NWC Editors Application management solutions; network documentation; Active Directory administration. |
| Letters By NWC Readers NWC reader Ron Fisher asks: "What open-source alternatives remain, now that some are becoming almost as costly as Microsoft's products?" |
| Columns |
| Down to Business: Get Used to Offshore Outsourcing By Rob Preston It's impossible to erect walls around the U.S. labor force short of dismantling the global economy we helped build. |
| Developing Trends: App Dev Nip Tuck By Don MacVittie You'll gain respect by proposing innovative apps that can increase the company's efficiency and save money. |
| RealityIT: Diplomacy and the Data Center By Hunter Metatek When I wasn't supervising our data center's move, I was hauling servers, assembling racks, and connecting power cords and cables. |
| BuzzCut: IBM Sits Out of the Java Tools Alliance By Lori MacVittie Sun and BEA have joined other Java software vendors to align Java tool strategies. Why not IBM? |
| BuzzCut: Federal Law Won't Stop Spam. It's Up To You By Ron Anderson Make a New Year's resolution to continue strengthening your spam defenses. |
| BuzzCut: Smarter WLAN Antennae By Dave Molta Signal-processing advancements let systems more intelligently control and decipher complex radio signals. |
| BuzzCut: Digging Up Buried Secrets By Robert Moskowitz Few stop to consider what could happen if important players in the IT department lose passwords. |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters: Apple upgrades its Enterprise line By Michael J. DeMaria Are Macs viable for the corporate data center? |
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