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March 2, 2006 -- Market Analysis: Disaster-Recovery Planning
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Features

Market Analysis: Disaster-Recovery Planning
By Don MacVittie
No organization that depends on technology and stored data can afford to be without a disaster-recovery strategy. We tell you how to get an initiative off the ground -- before it all goes up in smoke.

NWC Inc. RFI: Disaster-Recovery Service Providers
By Don MacVittie
We invited a trio of disaster-recovery providers to submit plans for backing up our fictional business. Each vendor has strengths, but one in particular won our Editor's Choice award for its inclusion of dedicated servers.

Review: Radio-Tested WLAN Clients
By Dave Molta and James Blandford
We tested Wi-Fi implementations in notebooks from market leaders Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba to assess how the interaction between different clients and access points affects system performance.

Unix Road Map
By Ben Dupont
We interviewed six vendors -- IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Apple, HP and Sun -- about their plans for Unix and uncovered some intriguing developments. Read this before you pick an operating system path.

Workshops

Crash Course: Get a Handle on Web Services Specs and Standards
By Lori MacVittie
As service-oriented architecture gains momentum, keeping up to date with Web services standards is key to success. Here's what you need to know.

Centerfold: Civil Engineering Firm "White Lists" Vulnerable Apps
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
It's a conservative and labor-intensive way to ward off zero-day attacks, but Patton Harris Rust & Associates decided to go with "white listing" applications each of its users can run. We profile PHR&A's security strategy and the lessons learned in deploying it.

Sneak Previews

Distributed Wireless Security Monitoring Systems
By Frank Bulk
Distributed wireless security monitoring systems help categorize and prioritize threats. We examine two offerings from AirDefense and AirTight Networks.

Raritan Computer's CommandCenter NOC
By Christopher T. Beers
With its flexible and robust alert-notification engine CommandCenter NOC automates the task of monitoring IT systems.

Avidian Technologies' Prophet Professional 3.0
By Peter Payne
Avidian's suite gives small and midsize businesses the features of a high-end customer relationship management application and the stability of a hosted setup.

Geek Chic

Matrox DualHead2Go
By Bill O'Brien
This palm-sized box can turn your laptop display into multiple clones for easier presentation viewing, let you use multiple screens for applications or give you panoramas as large as 2560 x 1024.

Comet 600 Remote Video
By Scott Koegler
Comet Video Technologies' Comet 600 pipes your video surveillance system to your cell phone.

Low-Cost Laser Printers
By Scott Koegler
These four lasers compete with inkjets on initial price and save you money on per-page cost. Find out which one edges out the others thanks to quick first-page print time and superior monochrome graphics output.

Sit, Stay, Speak!
By Jennifer Zaino
In this edition: Forget Furby, there's a new interactive Dino in town. Also, a biometric doorknob, a credit-card-sized flash drive and much more!

Departments

Last Mile: Meeting Adjourned!
By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa
In this edition: The Top 11 ways to shorten a dull IT staff meeting, biometric security procedures for kindergarten and a case-mod using a whiskey bottle.

Quick Takes: Patch Management
By Jennifer Zaino
This edition looks at WebEx Communications' on-demand service to help small businesses manage remote PC assets. We also spotlight WAN acceleration products from Orbital Data and more.

Columns

The Art of IT: Baby, I'm Back!
Art Wittmann
Network Computing's new editor in chief is no stranger -- Art Wittmann returns to the NWC family and shares his grand plans.

BuzzCuts

Simulating Hot and Cold Is Cool
By Don MacVittie
Fluent's CoolSim service lets you diagram your data center to show airflow and cooling.

'Lack of Resources' My Eye
By Bruce Boardman
Vendors' excuse is frustrating and dubious.

802.11n: Giant Leap for Wireless
By Dave Molta
The speedy WLAN standard promises to become a dominant one.

Requiem for Borland's IDE
By Lori MacVittie
Borland bows out of IDE to concentrate on application lifecycle management.

Buzz Bonus: See It All in 3D; That's a Worm, Mac
By Tim Wilson, Andrew Conry-Murray
Japanese scientists demonstrate mid-air 3D technology. Plus, Window users take pleasure as Mac users brace for worms.

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