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IAM Suites Offer Protected Connections | Roll Out the Red Carpet By Jeffery H. Rubin If you want partners and customers to have customized access to business data while keeping other content off limits, identity- and access-management suites may be the solution. |
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Review: IAM Suites | I Manage, Therefore IAM By Jeffery H. Rubin and Ravind Budhiraja We tested five identity- and access-management suites. Our Editor's Choice won for its comprehensive feature set and outstanding management interface. |
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Review: EAI Keeps Integration Simple By Don MacVittie We tested four enterprise application integration products geared to small and midsize businesses. Find out which offering provided simplicity without sacrificing features. |
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Prepare your Network for VoIP By Peter Morrissey Discover how a few key design and connection changes prior to installing your first IP phone can result in a smooth-talking VoIP system. |
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Workshop: Setting Up an Intrusion Detection System By Curtis Franklin Jr. An IDS helps analyze and respond to attacks from both inside and outside the network. Learn how to set one up for optimal protection. |
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Buyer's Guide: Online Conferencing Services By Michael J. DeMaria Poll participants during a live meeting as well as share documents and slides, all for less than conventional telephone costs. We'll tell you which features are most critical. View our Interactive Buyer's Guide For Online Conferencing Systems |
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Juniper Networks' NetScreen ISG 2000 | Holes in the Wall By Greg Shipley This firewall is built for performance, but suite-integration challenges remain. |
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MondoSoft's BehaviorTracking | Behavior Tracking Goes Deep By Sean Doherty Search engine performance is analyzed to the nth degree with this search-analytics tool. |
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Aventail's EX-1500SSL VPN Appliances | Aventail Upgrades VPN By Mike Fratto Do the updates to management, logging and cache-cleaning add up to improvements for this VPN device? |
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Last Mile Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson This edition: Top IT Skills You Should Never Use at Home; Caveat Patentor; and Your 404, Our 404. |
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Quick Takes By NWC Editors This edition: Xaffire xFire 3.0; Empirix e-Test Suite 7.0; EmergeCore Networks IT-500; and more. |
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Letters By NWC Readers Reader Terry Wellman laments: We should be clamoring for high-speed Internet access. But the United States ranks only seventh in broadband penetration. |
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Down to Business: Fortifying Your IT Ranks | Act Now or Pay Later By Rob Preston Identify top, critical people on your IT team and spend money on them. When the market improves, do you really want them to start looking for better opportunities? |
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Reality IT: The Harsh Reality of Disaster Recovery | Our Own Worst Enemy By Hunter Metatek When a trigger-happy CFO crashes the backup systems, one IT team learns some tough lessons about proper disaster-recovery planning -- or lack thereof. |
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BuzzCut: Enterprise IM Won't Miss AOL, Yahoo By Michael J. DeMaria The two companies have announced they will discontinue their enterprise IM products. With so many other options, does it even matter? |
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BuzzCut: Don't Get Caught in Biz Process Mgm't Wave By Bruce Boardman Business folks don't need IT to tell them how to make more money. They do need IT to run processes and systems efficiently and reliably so they don't have to. |
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BuzzCut: Cisco, AMD and Intel Make Life Hard on Attackers By Curtis Franklin Jr. The companies have provided a compelling road map for security. It's not going to be an easy road to tread, however. |
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BuzzCut: Nortel Delivers on SIP Interoperability By Peter Morrissey Despite limitations, Nortel and its partners are serious about making Session Initiation Protocol work. |
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FUDBusters: Oracle's Enterprise App Competitor -- Microsoft? By Tim Wilson Oracle claims the Redmond giant is its main adversary in the enterprise app market. Microsoft says, "Nay, Nay." Who's fooling whom? |
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