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Cover Story

Analysis: Network Access Control
By Mike Fratto
The network access control market has more players and plot twists than a crime novel. We follow the saga as Cisco and Microsoft partner to control the market, while the Trusted Computing Group struggles for mind share.

Features

SaaS: A Viable Alternative for IT
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Though often regarded with suspicion, Software as a Service offers numerous benefits, including freed-up IT resources and fast, inexpensive deployment. We show you how proper vetting can help avoid SaaS pitfalls.

Content-Addressable Storage
By Steven J. Shuchart Jr.
Content-addressable storage provides a solid foundation for data archiving, and major storage vendors are rolling out product offerings. We discuss the drivers for implementing CAS as well as what the technology can and cannot do.

The NWC Interview: Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff
By Robert Hertzberg
The CEO of Salesforce.com talks about software as a service and why Microsoft isn't the fearless competition it used to be.

Strategic Info Management Supplement:

Wide Area File Services
By Jon William Toigo
WAFS sound like a good idea. But before you invest, separate fantasy from reality.

iSCSI Vs. Fibre Channel
By Howard Marks
Underdog iSSCI is looking to finally enter the SAN 'Heavyweight Division.' Can it stand up to Fibre Channel's stranglehold on the big-enterprise SAN market, or is iSCSI headed for a knockout?

Reviews

Rollout: RIM's BlackBerry Connect
By Sean Ginevan
RIM succeeds in offering a "BlackBerry Lite" experience--extending mobile e-mail software to Palm OS devices.

Rollout: EqualLogic's PS3000 Series
By Steven Hill
The faster storage processors and serial attached SCSI disks of EqualLogic's new series of iSCSI arrays provide the performance needed to support transactional applications such as busy databases with steep IO requirements.

Rollout: Altiris' ESS
By John H. Sawyer
Altiris beefs up its management framework, providing protection for computers that access insecure wireless networks and removable storage devices.

Tech Tracker

SMASH
By Christopher T. Beers and Bill Fischer
Use of this DMTF protocol in a heterogeneous server environment offers a simplified method of managing hardware. But SMASH faces an uphill battle in its climb toward acceptance.

Columns

Reality IT: The Auditor: Friend and Foe
By Hunter Metatek
Internal and external audits are about as welcome as dental surgery, but surviving them isn't impossible--and you might even learn a couple of things along the way.

BuzzCuts

Truth vs. 'Truthiness' in Vendor Claims
By Frank Bulk
When vendors promise the world about product performance or capacity, the truth tends to be a little more down to earth than sky high. Just take Barracuda Networks' Model 300, for example.

Open-Source-Based Businesses Square Off
By Andrew Conry-Murray
With the launch of its open-source routing appliance, start-up Vyatta is showing David-eqsue tenacity against 'Goliath' Cisco Systems.

Carriers Circle Their Wagons Around 4G
By Sean Ginevan
Sprint, T-Mobile, Vodafone and several other heavyweights have formed the Next Generation Mobile Networks initiative to define features they would like in 4G networks.

Locking Up SOA Governance
By Lori MacVittie
HP and WebMethod's recent acquisitions of companies that make service-oriented architecture governance products could be bad news for the enterprise.

BuzzBites: Dirty, Dirty Mouse; Predicting the Internet's Future
By Andrew Conry-Murray
A new self-cleaning mouse rids itself of germs and bacteria. Coming to the Internet by 2020: virtual world addicts and anti-Internet terrorists.

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