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Cover Story
Analysis: Information Lifecycle Management By Howard Marks
We examine the business value of adopting ILM tools and practices to manage your data, and why vendors continue to take a scattershot approach to data retention. Can IT pull together a unified game plan? Plus, we review three file-classification products that can help you get a handle on data management.
Features
A Look at Microsoft Office Alternatives By Jonathan Feldman
Can your organization cut costs and maintain productivity with a Microsoft Office alternative? We offer a road map to making the switch to a free alternative.
Rich Internet Applications By Pete Payne
Rich Internet Applications form the basis for the next generation of the Web. We size up the
strengths and weaknesses of adopting RIAs, which can offer gains in productivity, agility, decision-making
and ease of support.
Data Center Design: Outsourcers' Notebook By Christopher T. Beers and Bill Fischer
Building a new data center is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We share lessons learned when we
participated in a 15-month project to design and build a 10,000-square foot data center. Here are the
technologies and design practices you need to know.
The NWC Interview: EMC's Mark Lewis By Robert Hertzberg
Mark Lewis, chief development officer at information-storage giant EMC, talks about his company's growth through acquisitions--a total of 23 companies in the past three years.
Reviews
Rollout: Sentillion vThere Virtualization Suite 2.0 By Bill Silvey
By putting a virtualized PC in a secure, isolated sandbox environment on a remote user's desktop, Sentillion's vThere 2.0 minimizes security risk and hardware overhead.
Rollout: Thinstall Virtualization Suite (TVS) 3.0 By James E Drews
Thinstall lets you take off-the-shelf products and internally developed applications and turn them into virtual apps with very little effort.
Rollout: AirWave Wireless Management Suite 5.0 By Lee Badman
AirWave's latest management suite supports multiple platforms and diverse technologies while providing value missing from native support tools.
Tech Tracker
Wireless USB By Jameson Blandford
Wireless USB aims to eliminate cables, letting wired PC peripherals and multimedia devices interconnect over blazingly fast ultrawideband technology. Two groups are racing to design the standard. Which one will win out?
Lemonade Mobile E-Mail Profile By Sean Ginevan
Lemonade provides a standards-based approach to mobilizing IMAP and SMTP e-mail clients. But with limited e-mail server and client support, it may be some time before Lemonade can make a sale.
Columns
Strategy Session: Automate Now! But What? By Art Wittmann
Automating policy enforcement is far more effective than attempting to enforce it manually. The impetus for implementing automation has already hit us. Now it's time to figure out what to do about it.
Cash and Burn: A Storage David Stalks Goliath By David Greenfield
In his new column, NWC editor David Greenfield explores the best and brightest start-ups making pings on our industry's radar. First up, a new Israeli company aiming to be the next EMC.
Legal Brief: Take Heed: FTC Enforcement in Guidance Case By Patrick Mueller
After the loss of thousands of customer records, Guidance Software has become the FTC's 14th data-security case. How does the FTC choose who to file suit against, and what do the case results mean?
BuzzCuts
Capacity Planning Goes Electric By Mike Fratto
It's still some time away, but electrical power may become the limiting factor in equipment purchases in the next couple of years.
Extrusion Protection to Plug Leaky Desktops By Andrew Conry-Murray
Once defined by gateway appliances that monitored for sensitive information slipping out of the enterprise, a new crop of extrusion-protection products puts agents directly on the desktop to plug potential leaks.
Extended Validation Certificates Certifiably Useless By Mike Fratto
EV certificates are being touted as a means to help users identify fraudulent sites and thwart phishing. But a study suggests they actually do very little to help fend off phishing attacks.
BuzzBites: CDC Spreads Infection of Computer Kind By Andrew Conry-Murray
On the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched new flu preparedness guidelines, intruders planted malware on the agency's podcasting Web site.
BuzzBites: When Google Sees Too Clearly By Andrew Conry-Murra
Find out which country asked Google to decrease the resolution of the search engine's satellite photo service in order to protect its sensitive locations.
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