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July 6, 2006 -- SOA Management Suites    
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SOA Management Suites

By Lori MacVittie
If you're serious about your service-oriented architecture -- and you'd better be -- you must get your services under control. An SOA management suite can give you the power to enforce operational policies.

Review: SOA Management Suites
By Lori MacVittie
All but the smallest service-oriented architecture will eventually need dedicated management. We evaluated suites from Actional and SOA Software. Both were on the money.

Analysis: Enterprise Rights Management
By Trent Henry
IT pros have legitimate concerns about rights management, but its value to the enterprise is clear. We analyze the ERM market and tell you how to push through bad PR and user resistance to make the sale.

Product Analysis: Network Access Control
By Joel Conover
NAC providers such as Cisco, Microsoft and Trusted Computing Group are struggling to innovate and differentiate themselves in a tempestuous marketplace. We take an in-depth look at this evolving market and reveal whether brand recognition will beat out an open standard.

Workshops

Crash Course: 802.1X: The Great Authenticator
By Cornell W. Robinson III.
802.1x is a versatile protocol that provides network access control at the network edge and ensures that users are validated. We give you a detailed explanation of how 802.1x works and how its implementation can help you secure the most crucial portion of your network.

Sneak Previews

Palm's Treo 700P
By Sean Ginevan
The 700P will please Palm fans with its enhanced connectivity, but its limitations and cost for a large-scale deployment will give skeptics pause.

FaceTime's RTGuardian
By Peter Morrissey
RTGuardian detects Skype and other peer-to-peer communications applications that threaten your network security with unfiltered data.

Cenzic's Hailstorm
By Lori MacVittie
The updated vulnerability-assessment tool can scan AJAX-enabled sites and applications for a wide range of security weaknesses.

Departments

Last Mile: Padding the ol Resume
By Andrew Conry-Murray and Tom LaSusa
This edition laughs at the Top 11 worst IT resumes, the world's first computer and, if you're gonna scam on eBay, don't let mom find out!
Letters: Channel Change Clarification
By NWC Readers
Tom Zeller contends, "It's true that a set of APs using a particular channel appear as a single AP to the client. However, another set of APs in the same area can be configured to use a different channel."

Columns

The Art of IT: Tough Times at the Top
By Art Wittmann
Changes in the leadership of our industry's top companies are becoming the norm these days. Although installing a new CEO may satisfy directors and shareholders, it doesn't always address the root problem.

Reality IT: Taming the Wild Inbox
By Hunter Metatek
Faced with bloated inboxes, our team realized there are two ways to motivate reluctant users to purge thousands of old e-mails: sticks (threats) and carrots (incentives).

BuzzCuts

Goodbye Mister Gates
By Richard Hoffman
With Bill Gates' announcement of passing on the torch of day-to-day operations at Microsoft in July 2008, we pause to contemplate the future of the company without its founding father.

Fired Up for Web 2.0
By David Greenfield
The rise of Web-based collaboration tools means more companies will gain access to applications normally available only to the largest organizations. That's good news for smaller businesses.

F5 and Reactivity Get Cozy
By Lori MacVittie
If done right, both vendors and customers will benefit from this new partnership. XML will be parsed once instead of twice, and there will be only one intermediary setting up and tearing down TCP sessions instead of two.

The Downside of All-in-One Security
By Don MacVittie
There's a general assumption that Unified Threat Management products reduce management hassles by reducing the hardware in your security infrastructure. But you know what happens when you assume.

BuzzBites: Lord of the Leaks
By Andrew Conry-Murray
We know competition drives business, but organizations today are engaged in a perverse contest: to see who can lose the most confidential data.

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