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.
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ANALYTICS Plan and design your enterprise blade server deployments
2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
Though raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and job security’s shrinking, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's 2009 IT Salary Survey. Available FREE for a limited time.
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