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October 26, 2006    
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Network Computing Magazine Cover, October 26, 2006

Cover Story

Analysis: Web 2.0 Technologies
By Lori MacVittie
Web 2.0 technologies offer great promise, but they're still immature and guaranteed to dramatically change your infrastructure in terms of monitoring, management, security and network load. We explore the current state of the market and what conditions must exist to move forward.
Features

The NWC Interview: Adaptive Path's Jesse James Garrett
By Robert Hertzberg
He gave us the acronym "Ajax." Now, the president of Adaptive Path talks about Ajax's suitability to speed Web applications...and what it still has to prove.
• Podcast: Inteview with James Garrett, the president of Adaptive Path (right click to download)

Hosted Desktop Management
ByMichael J. DeMaria
A hosted desktop management suite automates routine IT tasks, so users benefit from improved tech support. But these suites aren't cheap. The winner of our RFI offered the best combination of license monitoring, encryption, platform support, backup capabilities and price.

Special Report: Autonomic Computing
By Michael Biddick
Five years ago, IBM's Paul Horn articulated a new way of thinking about Information Technology. In this second article of our business innovation series, we examine how far the technology of autonomic computing has come--and where it's headed.

Strategic Security Supplement:

Strategic Security: Developing a Secure E-Mail Strategy
By Christopher Beers
Message encryption, along with other measures, should be a critical part of your overall security strategy. But poor planning could leave your organization compliant and yet still unprotected. Here's how to choose the right combination of encryption and protection technologies to suit your needs.

Strategic Security: The Encryption Conundrum
By Patrick Mueller
The key to mitigating risks is identifying your e-mail priorities. But neither the information security manager nor even the CIO can properly undertake this task alone.

Reviews

Rollout: Splunk's Splunk Server 2.1 Beta
By David DeCoster
Splunk aims to make IT's job easier by quickly searching for keywords in all log files and digging deep to find patterns across the entire system, not just within one file. UPDATED November 8, 2006

Rollout: CP Secure's Content Security Gateway 2500
By Howard Marks
CP Secure scans traffic and blocks viruses, spyware, malware and spam before it gets to the desktop at a rate of 480 Mbps.

Rollout: iTKO's Lisa 3.5
By Lori MacVittie
Lisa gets to the heart of service-oriented architecture problems by offering complete system collaborative, repeatable regression and load testing using a distributed environment.

Tech Tracker

NAC Standards: Groups Marking Territory
By Mike Fratto
The plans of Microsoft and Cisco to integrate their respective network-access-control architecture frameworks are a positive sign. They don't, however, make all integration problems related to NAC go away; hence the need for vendor-neutral NAC standards.

Spoken Word Search Analyzes Audio Content
By Mike DeMaria
Innumerable audio files available on the Web make searching based on keywords or metadata tricky. But spoken-word search technology is making it easier for enterprises to find the right audio content online.

Columns

Strategy Session: The Perils of Simplicity (and the Value of Testing)
By Art Wittmann
Face it: You can analyze any technology to any degree you like, and you'll still be surprised when implementation issues arise.

BuzzCuts

T-Mobile Up and Down With 3G
By Frank Bulk
The cellular service provider is hoping that the proposed rollout of a nationwide 3G network will make up ground lost over the past two years.

New Anti-Phishing Tool Puts Monkey-Wrench Into the Practice
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Monkeyspaw can automatically submit phishing suspects to the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination Squad, which attempts to take down the offending sites.

WLANs Still Insecure
By Sean Ginevan
As wireless networks expand in the enterprise, war drivers who chart the locations of vulnerable Wi-Fi networks are using new ways to disseminate their findings. These tactics make it easier to target unprotected enterprises.

Teaming Up for Leak Prevention
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Major vendors like Websense and Symantec are partnering with start-ups in the emerging information leak prevention market to spice up their products and tap into compliance dollars.

BuzzBites: Old McDonald Had a Robot. Plus, Hack the Vote
By Andrew Conry-Murray
Automation also can be found at the dairy farm. We aren't rid of those hanging chads just yet.

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