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Cover Story
The 2007 NWC Reader Survey By Andrew Conry-Murray
IT is frustrated by the internal strife and snake-oil salesmanship of technology vendors. In this year's reader poll, we invited IT managers to vent about the tech challenges they face every day and how they wish vendors would address these problems. Read the unvarnished truth about what your peers are thinking.
Virtually Extend Your Data Center By Howard Marks
Face it: We're going to continue to store data at remote offices. In the past, we've relied on a single process--the nightly backup to tape--to protect against data loss. But is there a better strategy? We say yes.
Has Storage Resource Management Fizzled? By Jon William Toigo
Despite new efforts to deliver an open storage resource management standard workable across vendor products, including arrays, switches, tape libraries and optical jukeboxes, analysts peg SRM penetration
at just 5 percent to 20 percent of its target audience. We explore the factors behind its apparent unpopularity.
Reviews
Full-Disk Encryption Suites By Tom Wabiszczewicz
One stolen laptop loaded with sensitive information could sink your business. To avoid disaster, a comprehensive security strategy must include a way to prevent data leakage from your mobile devices. We tested three full-disk encryption suites that offer powerful administration and management features.
Rollout: Nokia's E62 Smartphone By Michael Brandenburg
Designed to be Nokia's flagship for the enterprise, the E62 has the ability to work with a multitude of messaging platforms but lacks WLAN support.
Rollout: eEye's Blink Professional 2.5 By John H. Sawyer
This well-designed, robust host intrusion-protection solution uses a layered protection approach to stop attacks at the network and client levels.
Rollout: Avocent's SonicAdmin By Sean Ginevan
This app lets administrators manage their Windows servers remotely using a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile smartphone or PDA.
Tech Tracker
The Net Neutrality Debate Continues By Edward Hand
The Net Neutrality movement seeks government safeguards to ensure that broadband providers treat all lawful traffic across their networks identically. But to achieve Net Neutrality, a coalition of consumers and
business must be created.
Flesh-and-Blood Biometrics By Don MacVittie
With technological innovations such as venous palm scanning, the time may be coming when biometrics actually meets user expectations. Fujitsu hopes to lead the way with its palm-reading system.
Columns
Strategy Session: Vendor Growth Vs. Satisfied Customers By Art Wittmann
Vendors are focused on growing their companies, while your goal is to make IT operations run as efficiently as possible. This often leads to products that either don't live up to the hype or do things you really don't need or want.
Beyond Typical Business Intelligence By Dr. Norman J. Jacknis
True alignment between IT and the business means both units together define the best direction for the organization to pursue--and IT shouldn't be afraid to take the lead.
BuzzCuts
Can Microsoft Lead on Data Privacy? By Patrick Mueller
The Redmond giant recently released groundbreaking guidelines aimed at helping software and service developers address privacy concerns.
VCs Chasing Consumer Tech By Andrew Conry-Murray
Venture capital investors poured $6.89 billion into the technology market in the first half of 2006. Yet investments in enterprise technology remain flat.
Extreme Heads for Middle Ground By Mike Fratto
Extreme Networks is courting the midsize market by offering on-site assessment services.
Sprint Rolls the Dice on EV-DO By Sean Ginevan
With multibillion-dollar investments in both EV-DO and WiMAX, Sprint is banking heavily on mobile data to drive company profits and regain market share from Cingular and Verizon Wireless.
BuzzBites: Detect This; Selling iCrack By Andrew Conry-Murray
Call centers are relying on speech-analysis and emotion-detection software. Plus, the software expert who broke Apple's iTunes copy-protection software plans to make a little scratch.
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