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June 8, 2006 -- The All IP Enterprise    
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The All IP Enterprise

By Andrew Conry-Murray
We examine infrastructure, wireless and IP already owns enterprise data networks, but like any good dynasty, it's not resting on its laurels. It's now set to take on the infrastructures of telephony systems, data centers and storage networks. Are you ready to pledge allegiance to the IP empire?

10GigE: Fast, Pricey and Coming to a Data Center Near You
By Don MacVittie
Pundits have kicked around the future of 10-Gbps Ethernet in the data center for some time. Although there's no consensus on the route deployment will take, one fact is clear: At some point, you'll purchase 10GigE gear.

IP PBXs Come Into Their Own
By Brian Riggs
As sales of enterprise IP telephony systems increase, sales of conventional PBX systems are dropping. The migration to an IP telephony platform is only a matter of time for all enterprises, regardless of size or industry segment.

iSCSI Takes on Fibre Channel for the All-IP Enterprise
By Steven Hill
Big and fast enterprise storage is pretty much the exclusive turf of Fibre Channel SAN networks, and the FC platform isn't about to surrender ground without a fight.

Prioritizing VoIP Traffic: Can You Hear Me Now?
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Protect your voice over IP investment by implementing VLAN and QoS standards to ensure calls come through loud and clear.

Review: Storage Resource Management Suites
By Howard Marks
Storage resource management applications help you keep personal files, redundant data and other space hogs off the network. Of the six suites we tested, our Editor's Choice won for its ease in configuration, support of a broad range of platforms and its excellent analytic capabilities.

Strategic Security

Risk Assessment
By Chad Karosec
You can't build effective security policies without involving non-IT business stakeholders. Here's how to get them to help you assess and address those threats.

How to Survive Data Breach Laws
By Patrick R. Mueller
The personal data stored by your organization will always be subject to some risk. Blissful ignorance is no longer an appropriate strategy. The question then becomes, "how much protection...and at what cost?"

Workshops

Crash Course: Wireless Site Surveys
By Cornell W. Robinson III
Before setting up your wireless LAN, you must map it out. But as WLANs become more complex, so do those pesky wireless site surveys. We give you a rundown of the types of tools available to make that job a lot easier than the old pen-and-paper method.

Sneak Previews

Composite Software's Composite Information Service with Composite Application Views
By Lori MacVittie
Composite's software lets both business users and developers access rational data hidden in application databases such as those from SAP or Salesforce.com. You can even join data from different systems to get a complete view of your information.

Genius' SalesGenius
By Lori MacVittie
The power of presence and Web analytics are combined in a single nonintrusive service that provides real-time analysis of marketing campaign effectiveness.

Departments


Last Mile: Disaster Recovery of 'Titanic' Proportions
By Andrew Conry-Murray and Tom LaSusa
In this edition we shudder at the Top 11 worst disaster recovery plans, a computer that's a real 'bomb' and being addicted to the Net.


Quick Takes: Unix and Linux Security Administration
By Jennifer Zaino
This edition looks at Symark PowerKeeper -- a Unix and Linux security and administration product. We also spotlight Wily Technology's Introscope 7.0, Ontrack's Powercontrols 4.1 and Lumigent Technologies' Audit DB 5.0.

Columns

The Art of IT: The Virtual Battleground
By Art Wittmann
There's a good deal of confusion about the pros, cons and even the definitions of processor virtualization and operating system virtualization. And companies such as Microsoft -- currently touting its Virtual Road Map -- haven't made the path all that much clearer.

Reality IT: Flying High -- and Low -- With IT Legal Eagles
By Hunter Metatek
Although lawyers are dedicated to protecting our IT interests, they can also be a hindrance -- sometimes even responsible for scaring off vendors with promising IT solutions.

BuzzCuts

Data Security: Not If, But When
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Sensitive data is vanishing in every way imaginable. The lesson is screamingly obvious: Organizations that haven't invested in some sort of data protection better start now.
VA Admins -- Hold Your Fire!
By Don MacVittie
Instead of immediately firing the analyst who lost personal data on 26.5 million veterans, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs might want to examine -- and start enforcing -- its own security policies.

Palm OS Is Still a Contender
By Richard Hoffman
Recent signs indicate this smartphone operating system is still a viable option for deployments requiring a high data rate and all the bells and whistles.

RightNow Finds Mr. Right
By Lori MacVittie
Customer resource management vendor RightNow announced its intention to acquire Salesnet for its workflow-automation capabilities and -- in a surprising show of honesty -- its customer base.

BuzzBites: Mars and Venus on the Internet
By Andrew Conry-Murray
A new survey says only 30 percent of men will contact IT if their computer is infected with spyware, compared with 64 percent of women.

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