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Enterprise Information Integration | Data Without Borders
By Lori MacVittie
EII provides a single point of access to a diversity of data sources in real time. Find out how this kind of global perspective can make your company a force to be reckoned with.
Review: EII Suites | Don't Fear the Data
By Lori MacVittie
Despite cost and complexity, EII's rewards can be great. Of the seven suites we tested, our top pick demonstrated easy configuration, caching capabilities and exceptional data integration.
Review: Enterprise IMs | Instant Gratification
By Michael J. DeMaria
Despite cost and complexity, EII's rewards can be great. Of the seven suites we tested, our top pick demonstrated easy configuration, caching capabilities and exceptional data integration.
SPAM Playbook: SPAM Filtering Tools
By Eric A. Hall
There's more than one way to stop junk e-mail. We evaluate several of the latest spam-filtering mechanisms which prevent most undesired messages from ever reaching your end users.

Workshops
Web Log Analysis | Analyzing Pays Off!
By Jeffrey H. Rubin
The details of your site's activity can help your organization make better business decisions. Here's how to make the best use of your Web logs.
Centerfold: Raymond James Financial | IT Team puts Trust in Layered Security
By Kelley Jackson Higgins
A short outage can mean million-dollar losses for a major financial services company. See how Raymond James Financial's IT staff built a multilayered security fortress to protect both network and VPN.

Sneak Previews
Adobe's Form Manager 6.0 | Paper Obsolescence
By Lori MacVittie
Form Manager helps organize the deluge of forms your organization produces.
Unify's NXJ 10.5 | Sweet Package for Biz Apps
By Peter Payne
This complete modeling, development, deployment and management package simplifies business process building. But is it worth the cost?
Cyclades' AlterPath KVM/net16 | Raising the Remote-Control Bar
By Christopher T. Beers
This appliance gives admins secure access to the keyboards, video and mice of remote servers.

Departments
Last Mile
Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
This edition: Top 11 signs your co-worker is on the Google IPO "friends list"; IT truisms and witness the FileMatrix.
Quick Takes
By NWC Editors
This edition looks at Pactolus Communications Software's SIPware Broadband Telephony, IQinVision's IQeye101, NetSuite's Small Business and SecureWave's Sanctuary Device Control.
Letters
By NWC Readers
Reader Walter Gold feels that people need to understand the opportunity cost associated with choosing one vendor over another.
Columns
Down to Business: Communicating Business Returns Clearly | Spell It Out
By Rob Preston
Communicating the business returns you make possible is almost as important as managing the systems that deliver them.
Industry Insights: Safe Databases Are Key to Security | What's the Database Coming to?
By Mike Lee
Your database and network design may help prevent critical vulnerabilities from being exploited.
The IT Agenda: Desktop Lockdown Limits | Education, Not Limitation
By Jonathan Feldman
If you took away your best employees' freedom, would they still be your best employees?
BuzzCut: Oracle's "Dare" Backfires | Not So "Unbreakable"
By Richard Hoffman
Computer Associates and IBM are relinquishing major products to the open-source community. Which company Larry Ellison challenged hackers to break his company's software--and they did. Should users consider choices other than Oracle?
BuzzCut: FC Slowdown Not Caused By iSCSI | Where Does the Blame Lie?
By Don MacVittie
Before letting iSCSI take the credit for the recent dip in the Fibre Channel market, take a look at other factors.
BuzzCut: Can Wi-Fi MANs Fly? | Business Hurdles Might Ground Flight
By Dave Molta
Large cities may get Wi-Fi networks in the air, but how long will they stay up?
BuzzCut: Skype Hype? | Killer App, or App-solutely Nothing?
By Sean Doherty
Will this latest VoIP communication method catch on?
FUDBusters: Steve Ballmer Warns Users on Linux | MS CEO FUDs the Penguin
By Tim Wilson
Ballmer alerted potential Linux users of its cost, security and legal standing. Is he sure he's not talking about Windows?

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