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August 31, 2006    
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Network Computing Magazine Cover, August 31, 2006

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.
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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.
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     • 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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