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Message Archiving Is a Must
By Ron Anderson
Everyone from Uncle Sam to your company execs want your organization's e-mail stores secure, yet accessible--and for any 'smoking guns' to vanish. Is a coherent e-mail archiving strategy in your future?
Lab Tested: Automated E-mail Archivers
By Ron Anderson
When it comes to saving your company's vital electronic records, automation is the way. Our Editor's Choice's rich feature set offers that and a decent price tag.
Review: Affordable IT: Low-End Switches
By Joe Hernick and Dean Ellerton
We tested seven switches priced below $750 and were pleased with how much our dollar bought. Our top pick gets props for its sweet lifetime warranty, flexible uplink options and an excellent management interface.
2005 N+I Best of Interop Awards
By Ron Anderson
Our panel of writers and editors evaluated myriad information technology products, then chose the best in seven categories. Check out this year's honorees as well as the Best Start-Up and the Grand Prize Winner.

Workshops
Conducting Vulnerability Assessments
By Jordan Weins
Performing network penetration tests will pinpoint weak spots. Learn how to do your own network VA testing.
Buyer's Guide: Buying an IP Phone
By Sean Doherty
Before you purchase a voice over IP phone system, you need to consider the form, location, interoperability and performance--or FLIP--of the phone. We'll help get your purchasing plans started.

Sneak Previews
Vivisimo's Velocity 4.2
By Sean Doherty
Organize results from multiple sources to provide a single list of indexed results for any search without using taxonomies.
Apparent Networks' AppareNet Voice Professional
By Bruce Boardman
Voice Professional provides end-to-end Layer 3 VoIP network monitoring. But watch out for that clunky reporting interface.

Departments
Last Mile
Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa
In this edition we chuckle at the Top 11 worst codenames for the next version of Microsoft Windows, virtual Net disasters and a scrolling marquee belt buckle.
Quick Takes
Edited By Patricia Thomas
This edition looks at e-DMZ Security's Guardpost, EVault's InfoStage 5, Dorian Software Creations' Event Analyst and Polycom's QSX.
Letters
By NWC Readers
Charley Musselman proudly states, "Firefox may have the sexier name, but I'm staying with Mozilla!"
Columns
Down to Business: Don't Give Up on Outsourcing
By Rob Preston
Sure, customers complain about outsourcing's costs and complexity, but companies have been falling into and out of love with the practice for more than a decade.
Reality IT: Group Therapy Can Cure Mergermania
By Hunter Metatek
Mergers can be messy, particularly on the different IT departments. But with careful planning and sensitivity to personnel issues, harmony--not horror--can reign.
Air Time: Politics Takes on Technology
By Dave Molta
Legislation that prevents municipalities from deploying advanced network technologies is bad public policy.
BuzzCuts
New Infrastructure Could Be Fruit of Juniper Acquisitions
By Curtis Franklin Jr.
Application acceleration: App front ends are now part of the enterprise architecture decision.
Novell Buys Tally Systems to Improve Asset Management
By Tim Wilson
Trend Micro's new antivirus update crashed thousands of PCs, demonstrating the need for testing.
NASA Could Launch SATA Trend
By Don MacVittie
Despite a heavy storage requirement, the space agency selects a lower cost technology.
VoIP Regulations Kick IN
By Michael J. DeMaria
FCC proposes the first regulations on VoIP services, requiring a 911 capability.
FUDBusters: Let's Cut the Protectionism Instead
By Rob Preston
The U.S. federal government is limiting temporary visas, and it's hurting high-tech.

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