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| October 1, 2005 -- Market Analysis: Unified Messaging | |
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Market Analysis: Unified Messaging By Sean Doherty Thanks to maturing standards and improved features, not to mention SIP support, improved connectivity and reduced costs, there’s finally a reason to rally behind unified messaging. We explore the market and the technologies. |
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Review: Unified Messaging Systems By Sean Doherty We tested three SIP-compliant UM systems. Each product performed well, but our Editor's Pick won thanks to its intuitive system and powerful toolset. |
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NWC's Syracuse Labs Get a Makeover By Ron Anderson Our Syracuse University Real-World Labs recently moved into new digs. Join Lab Director Ron Anderson as he takes you on a tour of the state-of-the-art facility. |
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Centerfold: Guitar Center's Dual WANs Keep Traffic in Tune By Kelly Jackson Higgins The music equipment retailer, which runs its point-of-sale and inventory traffic on a vintage frame relay WAN, has added a pilot IP VPN with hopes of phasing out the frame relay WAN altogether. |
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Digital Signatures Are Key to E-Mail Security By Curtis Franklin, Jr. Digital signatures based on third-party certificates secure your e-mail by verifying a sender's identity and the contents' authenticity. Here's how to set up the system. |
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Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 8 By Sean Doherty With most of the features for a fraction of the price, StarOffice 8 promises improvements on its already efficient office suite with Windows-like functionality. |
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WatchGuard Technologies' Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway By John H. Sawyer Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway appliance keeps your remote users safely connected through both private and public VPN modes. |
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Axis Communications' Axis 210 Network Camera By Michael J. DeMaria Axis touts the camera as an effective, motion-sensitive surveillance tool, offering a bidirectional audio option on top of video. But how effective is it, really? |
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Last Mile: Bill's School Daze Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa This edition presents the Top 11 things Bill Gates would do if he went back to college today, the world's fastest printer and the ultimate in office space. |
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Quick Takes: Web Server Performance Testing By Patricia Thomas This edition looks at Parasoft's SOA Test 4.1, OCI Technologies' Move My Printers 3, Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise and more. |
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Letters: The Big Picture By NWC Readers Dante Papini gripes, "My department constantly battles with managers who want the world but won't accept any risk." |
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Down to Business: It's All About the Connections By Rob Preston The momentum of enterprise information delivery may be moving from complex applications like ERP and CRM to Web portals. |
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The IT Agenda: Katrina's Harsh Lessons By Jonathan Feldman Hurricane Katrina leaves us a nation with families torn apart and billions of dollars in damage. It also leaves us with unwelcome but essential lessons.. |
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CRM Competition Ain't Dead Yet By Lori MacVittie Despite Siebel's acquisition by Oracle, there's good reason to believe that alternatives to Salesforce.com are around the corner. |
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Cisco Takes Aim at Smaller Businesses By Peter Morrissey Cisco is showing some understanding of the needs of small businesses and the channel partners that support them. |
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Service Desk's Battle for Market Share By Bruce Boardman Recently, FrontRange found a way to spin Gartner's numbers to make it the leading vendor in the service desk market. |
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Airgo Breaks 100 Mbps Wireless Barrier By Dave Molta Airgo's new technology sets a new standard for WLAN performance, but don't pull out your wired Ethernet LAN yet. |
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FUDBusters: Offshore IT Outsourcing Doesn't Match the Hype By Tim Wilson A new survey indicates a rapid growth in the use of IT offshore outsourcing services by U.S. companies. But our reader surveys don't support the prediction. |
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