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Cover Story
Taking Advantage of Wide-Area Wireless By Peter Rysavy
Your users are demanding mobile broadband to help them perform their jobs more efficiently, but the complexity of deployment leaves most IT managers confused. Here's how to take advantage of rapidly evolving and
improving wide-area wireless. • Review: 3G Notebooks   ||  
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Features
Application
Virtualization: Streamlining Distribution By James E. Drews
Application virtualization can help you avoid DLL conflicts and ease application distribution to Windows clients. We look at three products--each with varying approaches--that provide a way to virtualize
applications. On Location: Airline Management Soars with Application Acceleration By Jim Carr
An application front-end appliance helps SkyVantage, a Web-based airline reservation and management system, deliver '5 nines' uptime for its airline customers while holding down data center costs.
The NWC
Interview: Arthur W. Coviello Jr., CEO, RSA Security By Robert Hertzberg
Arthur W. Coviello Jr. is Chief Executive Officer at RSA Security, which specializes in protecting online identities and digital assets. In this interview, Coviello discusses Internet crime, privacy protection, terrorism and
EMC's impending billion-dollar acquisition of RSA. Strategic Security: Identity
Theft Protection By Don MacVittie
Identify theft is a nightmare for companies and consumers alike. But, ultimately, the responsibility to protect against it falls solely on IT. Here's how to protect your data, your employees and your business.
also: • Can Encryption
Exemption Save Your Job? By Patrick R. Mueller Expert Series: Security By Art Wittmann
In this Expert Series we focus on technologies that help secure some of the softest points for data loss in the enterprise.
Reviews
Review: SMB IP PBXs By Peter Morrissey
Although Voice over IP provides undeniable benefits, it comes with security and performance problems. Would it be worth the investment for our fictional 'widget' maker, NWC Inc., to spend big bucks on an IP PBX?
We evaluated four systems to find out. Microsoft Exchange 2007 Beta 2
By Mike DeMaria
With a revamped architecture and a new management interface, Exchange Server 2007 will offer reliable, high-performance e-mail and collaboration. Improvements in the Web version of Outlook and the addition of
unified messaging features will create convenient user access. Flashline Registry 5.2 By Lori MacVittie
Registry 5.2's new engine, tight integration and excellent asset-usage tracking put it ahead of the competition. Ekahau's Site Survey 2.2 By Lee Badman
Wireless shouldn't be a guessing game, and Site Survey 2.2 provides a multitude of answers for wireless site surveys and support.
Tech Tracker
XBRL By Edward Hand
Around the globe, businesses and regulatory agencies are embracing the Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, as the standard for business reporting. Discover how adopting this single language will help
your business produce more accurate reports with ease. Wide-Area Ethernet Services Advancing with Reliability Guarantees By Mike Fratto
Certifications showing carrier compliance with MEF Ethernet services requirements demonstrate service providers' commitment and adherence to Carrier Ethernet. In addition, this development should help drive down
provisioning costs.
Columns
Strategy Session:
Our Magazine's New Look By Art Wittmann
We've redesigned Network Computing magazine to better help you use technology to meet the needs of your business. Air Time: A Wireless
Education By Dave Molta
Laptops and multipurpose cell phones are rapidly becoming the norm among students on campus. To support all these wireless devices and technology, however, schools must start offering serious network
infrastructures rather than a few random hotspots.
BuzzCuts
Are We Headed for an IT
Shortage? By Robert Hertzberg
Despite indications that the tech industry is rebounding and jobs will be plentiful, fewer students are majoring in computer science and engineering. Altiris Tries
Free-to-Own Software Virtualization By Bruce Boardman
Altiris recently released the API for its Software Virtualization Solution client, which virtualizes applications on the desktop to simplify provisioning and deprovisioning. IBM, HP Bulking Up
EMS By Bruce Boardman
Was IBM's recent purchase of asset management vendor MRO an attempt to leapfrog HP's acquisition of Mercury Interactive? XSS Vulnerabilities Abound By Andrew-Conry Murray
Recent attacks against high-profile Web sites show that developers still don't have a handle on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities--but the bad guys do. Buzz Briefs: Now You See Me...;
Jet Engines Cool Servers By Andrew-Conry Murray
A theoretical physicist has announced that invisibility may actually be possible; HP engineers build servers cooled by modified versions of jet engines used to propel radio-controlled airplanes.
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