May 25, 2006 -- Market Analysis: Security Information Management
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Market Analysis: Security Information Management By Greg Shipley The amount of threat data to be managed is growing. Fortunately, a well-planned SIM strategy can help you make sense of the deluge. We analyze the often confusing and complex security information management market.

Review: Security Information Management Products By Greg Shipley Our Neohapsis Lab tested eight enterprise-class SIM suites capable of supporting at least a dozen log formats while moderating the amount of information security administrators must process. Although a veteran in the market earned our Editor's Choice, new arrivals are staking their claims.

Affordable IT: Leasing IT Equipment By Andrew Conry-Murray IT infrastructure costs can easily shrink or sink a budget. Leasing equipment might be your best bet. We show you the pros and the pitfalls.

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Centerfold: Winemaker Stores No E-Mail Beyond Its Time By Kelly Jackson Higgins Foster's Wine Estates America's new e-mail management system provides the company with archiving to improve storage and access as well as e-discovery to help comply with regulatory audits.

Crash Course: AJAX: A Quicker Way to Freshen Your Web Pages By Ben Dupont The emerging Asynchronous JavaScript and XML standard makes interactive Web pages seem more responsive by updating dynamic content without full-page refresh. We give you the ins and outs of AJAX, where to get it and when to use it -- or not.

Viola Networks' NetAlly 5.0.19A By Sean Doherty Voila Networks' NetAlly 5.0.19A software provides in-depth reports of network metrics such as latency, packet loss, jitter and throughput, which help you keep voice-over-IP performance at a high level.

Near-Time's Near-Time.net By Michael J. DeMaria Low-cost, cross-platform Web software lets small groups collaborate securely through blogs, wikis and group scheduling.

Last Mile: Mac Running Windows? Fuggedaboudit! By Andrew Conry-Murray and Tom LaSusa In this edition: The Top 11 reasons IT won't run Windows on Macs. Plus, car thieves go high-tech and 'This Old Case Mod.'

Quick Takes: Network Acceleration By Jennifer Zaino In this edition, we look at Expand Networks' full-featured 2U rack-mounted appliance. We also spotlight LogicBlaze's Fuse and BizAutomation's CRM+Business Management.

Easing Into NAC By Andrew Conry-Murray Two intriguing NAC architectures emerged at this month's Interop: peer-based enforcement and SSL VPNs on the LAN. Both let enterprises ease into a NAC solution without taking on the full cost or complexity of solutions requiring significant network upgrades or hardware purchases.

Adobe's Poor Assumptions By Lori MacVittie If Adobe wants Flash to become the de facto standard for displaying eye candy, the company must make certain its Web site can identify OSs correctly.

Will Vista's Bulk Weigh Down the WAN? By David Greenfield As Vista's delivery date keeps getting pushed back, enterprises should use that time to figure out how to distribute the 3-GB software package.

Have Your USB Cake and Eat It Too By Jennifer Zaino Msystems, which holds the patent on USB flash drives, wants to please everyone with a new product that provides centralized control for flash drives.

BuzzBlog: VoIP Spam: A Bad Call; Video Games = $$ By Andrew Conry-Murray Vonage recently sent e-mail containing an audio attachment to all its subscribers to drum up investors for its forthcoming IPO. Could it be considered spam? Also: Big bucks in the video game industry.

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