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Cover Story
Analysis: Physical/Logical Security Convergence By Jeff Forristal
Physical and logical security staffs, both tasked with protecting enterprise assets, are seeing increased technology and budgetary overlaps. Now, technological shifts, budgetary realities and a major government initiative are adding further impetus for convergence of these two factions. We examine the potential benefits to your organization.
Features
Analysis: Enterprise WANs By Jeffrey Young
The Internet will eventually render conventional WANs obsolete. We assess alternative technologies, many based on MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), that will let IT link remote locations quickly and
inexpensively.
Medical Equipment Maker Stays Healthy With Storage Array By Jim Carr
This international home-care device maker wanted a business-continuity system to ensure that its ERP system wouldn't halt production. In addition, the company needed to address its growing storage needs.
The solution: a 69-terabyte storage array to maintain healthy operations.
Interview With Blue Lane Technologies' Jeff Palmer By Andrew Conry-Murray
Blue Lane's President & CEO explains the company's appliances, which sit inline on the network and emulate security patches on real-time traffic to protect servers until the patch is installed.
Reviews
Linux Provisioning Systems to the Rescue By Jeff Ballard
Linux provisioning tools ease deployment chores by consolidating controls for OS and application installation, policy enforcement and patching. We examine the pros--and the pitfalls--of systems from Mandriva, Novell and Xandros, plus a homegrown solution from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Rollout: Men & Mice's Men & Mice 5.5 By Todd Ouimet
This enterprise IP address management solution provides nonintrusive centralized management of DNS, DHCP and IP configuration, automates common processes, and delegates responsibility for given subnets and routine tasks.
Rollout: Fluke Networks' NetTool Series II Pro By Phil Hippensteel
Though clearly designed to excel in an all-Cisco environment, this device provides an easy-to-use method for gathering nearly all the key measurements and parameters from your VoIP installation.
Rollout: iPass' Mobile Connectivity Services By Sean Ginevan
With a new Device Lockdown service, iPass offers improved security and policy enforcement for remote-access management.
Tech Tracker
SIP Trunks Find a Niche By Matt Vlasach
Although not the first VoIP trunking technology available to small and midsize companies, SIP trunking may be the first to have a widespread impact on phone communications for these enterprises.
Rootkit Detection By Andrew-Conry Murray
They make up only a tiny percentage of malware, but rootkits help spyware and trojans avoid detection and removal. Find out how the security community is responding to rootkits and what new steps have been taken to prevent their installation.
Columns
Strategy Session: Let the Good Times Roll By Art Wittmann
Our industry evolves incredibly quickly, and that presents a unique challenge that only Network Computing consistently meets.
Air Time: Tech Market Research By Dave Molta
Industry market projections often do far more harm than good, creating a false sense of reality and stimulating investment in bad ideas.
BuzzCuts
Will Enterprise Desktops Go Virtual? By Charles Babcock
In what could be touted as the rollback of the client-server revolution, Hewlett-Packard is aligning with VMware to give enterprises the option of re-centralizing.
New Player Joins the SaaS Team By Andrew Conry-Murray
New company Workday is a further validation of the Software as a Service model, which promises speedier deployments and lower implementation costs by delivering applications using a Web browser.
Unsanctioned Apps Wreak Havoc By Andrew Conry-Murray
Unsanctioned apps are a persistent thorn in IT's side and must be
addressed by a variety of methods, including user instruction and enforcement of
corporate policies.
BuzzBites: FTC Spanks Adware Vendor; Ink Costs More Than Blood? By Andrew Conry-Murray
Zango coughs up $3 million for downloading software to PCs that was tough to remove. Also, blood may be thicker than water, but it appears ink is more expensive than blood.
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