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February 2, 2006 -- Market Analysis: Continuous Data Protection
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Features

Market Analysis: Continuous Data Protection
By Howard Marks
Restoring from days- and even hours-old backup won't get your company back in the game. Continuous data protection is the IT equivalent of no harm, no foul. We explain what constitutes CDP and examine the true capabilities and limitations of today's offerings.

Product Analysis: Continuous Data Protection Products
By Howard Marks
We tested eight products that promise to keep business data safe from server crashes. Find out which offering was awarded our Editor's Choice for its comprehensiveness, manageability and price.

Review: Streaming Media Servers
By Michael J. DeMaria
Apple, Macromedia, Microsoft and RealNetworks all accepted our comparison challenge. The results were remarkably close. Find out why entries from Apple and Microsoft just edged out the other two.

Affordable IT: IDS Deconstructed
By Jordan Wiens
Find out how much protection to expect from an intrusion detection system by building your own--for free!

Browsers: Beyond IE and Firefox
By Jeremy Baumgartner
They may have the most eyes, but Microsoft and Mozilla's offerings aren't the only browsers people use. They may be lesser known (and in at least one case, all-but-forgotten), but they have features that still set them apart from the big players.

Review: The Ultimate PC for 2006
By Bill O'Brien
Why buy a ho-hum off-the-rack computer when you can cherry-pick components to create a truly superior PC? Find out which products made the grade as we put together this year's screamer.

Workshops

Centerfold: Fiber Lets City Go Multimedia
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Santa Monica's private CWDM fiber network has paved the way for new traffic-management and videoconferencing apps as well as free public Wi-Fi. Find out how this city is leveraging its fiber infrastructure and tackling roadblocks.

Crash Course: The ABCs of WPA2 Security
By Frank Bulk
Our WPA2 primer tells you how to use this standard to secure your network and how it handles encryption and access control. It also addresses why it's safer than previous standards.

Sneak Previews

Cisco's Aironet 1500
By Lee Badman
Cisco's entry into the metro wireless LAN arena has a lot to like, but there are some strings attached.

BMC's Virtualizer
By Sean Doherty
Virtualizer is first-to-market with software specifically designed to provision virtual machines automatically.

Zimbra's Collaboration Suite
By Michael J. DeMaria
This open-source solution makes for easy deployment and simple, if not complete, administration.

Corel's WordPerfect Office X3
By Ron Miller
The latest edition of Corel's office suite, WordPerfect Office X3, adds an e-mail application and PDF functionality to its existing group of applications.

Geek Chic

Monarch's Gamer PC
By Bill O'Brien
Monarch Computer Systems' Nemesis Custom Gaming PC packs a wallop with the brand-new dual-core Athlon 64 FX60.

Palm's Treo 700w
By James Turner
Palm's first foray into the smartphone "dark side" delivers the power and functionality of a Windows Mobile device with much of the simplicity and ease of use you normally find only with Palm OS gadgets.

Mplat's Flashphone F2K
By Michael Brandenburg
Who says you can't take it with you? The $40 Flashphone F2K from Mplat Technology lets you plug into random PCs and make and receive free Skype VoIP calls.

The Gigabit Goes On
By Jennifer Zaino
In this edition, the iPod meets new competition from Toshiba's Gigabit S Series. Plus, the Imation Flash Wristband, a Motorola phone that steers remote-control toy cars and more.

Departments

Last Mile: Ready for Some Football?
Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa
In this edition we look at the Top 11 dumbest things to do at your CIO's SuperBowl party; the Nissan Urge prototype car, which has an Xbox on the driver's side; and robotic fish.

Quick Takes: Google Mini
By Jennifer Zaino
This edition looks at search appliances from Google as well as products from Cyber-Ark, Symbol and Sypherlink.

Letters: Affordable Collaboration
By NWC Readers
Web conferencing tools, W. Henry Johns notes, are great as long as you can keep the usage-based costs down. Johns has a solution.

Columns

Down to Business: Keep Your Eyes Open
By Rob Preston
Whether you think the center of tech innovation will move to developing countries such as India or you think India is just a low-cost up-and-comer, let's all agree on one thing: It's not going away.

Air Time: The Challenges of Scalability
By Dave Molta
Scalability is the most enduring IT problem, resurfacing in every discussion about new technology.

BuzzCuts

Build Your Own NAS, Part 1
By Don MacVittie
Network Area Storage continues to be a fast growing market, so we ponder how hard it could be to build our own NAS device. It's not a simple task.

Dispatches From India
By Ron Anderson
We join a group of IT professionals in India as they meet with remote infrastructure-management firms such as HCL to examine offshore outsourcing opportunities.

Acquisition Could Pull OEM Plug
By Lori MacVittie
Mercury Interactive's purchase of registry/repository provider Systinet bears potential impact on other SOA-based ISV product lines.

The Doctor Won't See You Now
By Tim Wilson
Why does Microsoft get to decide that some vulnerabilities are "no big deal" and don't need to be addressed for 18 months or more? Shouldn't all vulns be given immediate attention?

Sun's Founders Recall the Early Days
By Tim Wilson
In their first public appearance together in years, the four founders of Sun Microsystems remembered some interesting moments of the past, and expressed hope for the future.

Buzz Bonus: The Blade Server Movement
By Tim Wilson
The Blade Server movement is a go, according to the numbers. Plus, the executive editor of the Washington Post bans blog comments.

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