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Cover Story
VMWare: The Virtualization Drag By Michael Caton
By consolidating applications onto a single system, VMware provides cost savings, flexibility and improved application management, but there are trade-offs. We took to the lab to identify and dertermine where virtualization performance hits and how to minimize them.
Features
The State of Business Intelligence By David Stodder
There's a transformational change going on in business intelligence. Next-generation BI
promises speedier, automated decision-making, thanks to affordable computing and storage
platforms and advances in business activity monitoring. We assess the changes in the market.
Analysis: Alternative WLAN Technologies By Frank Bulk
Can your WLAN handle imminent growth? If your wireless strategy needs an upgrade, there are alternative technologies worth considering. We examine innovative solutions that are challenging WLAN market vendors.
Interview: Siemens' Thomas Zimmermann By Andrew Conry-Murray
Siemens Enterprise Communications' Chief Operating Officer discusses unified
communications, standards and his personal take on Apple's iPhone.
Reviews
Rolling Review: Imperva's Secure Sphere By John H. Sawyer
A strong start to our database extrusion-detection/-prevention series, Imperva's Secure Sphere is quick to learn user behavior, and its numerous signatures let it handily block known attacks against both the database server and the underlying OS.
Rollout: AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer Pro By Frank Bulk
AirMagnet continues to add and expand features and functionality to Laptop Analyzer Pro, making it the de facto tool for wireless LAN troubleshooting and analysis.
Rollout: Verizon E-VPLS Service By Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
Targeted at the Fortune 100, E-VPLS Service gives large enterprises an alternative to leased lines for linking offices throughout the lower 48 states.
Rollout: Fluke Networks LinkRunner Pro By Phil Hippensteel
Compact, rugged and inexpensive, LinkRunner Pro is ideal for technicians looking to diagnose simple connectivity issues or gnarlier problems on the physical level.
Speermint Group Tackles SIP Peering Shortcomings By Matt Vlasach
With support from big players such as Avaya, Cisco and Siemens, this new spec paves
the way for standardized backbone connectivity and cheaper voice communications, leaving the
PSTN out of the equation.
MIT's iFind Service By Phil Hippensteel
The Wi-Fi-based iFind provides a novel way to let groups of people find one another, set
up meeting times or work together. Although ideal for a campus environment, iFind could have
plenty of commercial practicalities as well.
The Next Wave of Enterprise Smartphones By Dave Molta
Many IT pros have felt the pain of supporting the first wave of smartphones, but you're
going to need to learn how to live with these devices--and be prepared for another impending
wave.
The Truth About Storage Reliability By Howard Marks
A pair of studies on storage technology reveal some disturbing facts about disk drive
performance and reliability.
BuzzCuts
Can Microsoft Redefine Presence? By Andrew Conry-Murrayt
Microsoft's Office Communications Server aims to take the mystery out of business communication by weaving presence information into multiple applications. But are we talking improved communications or shades of "Big Brother"?
IEEE Gives BPL a Needed Jolt By W. David Gardner
The IEEE has announced the formation of a working group to develop requirements for a baseline BPL standard. Advocates say this will provide competition for cable and telecom companies.
Is OpenBSD a Little Too Open? By Jordan Wiens
Core Security Technologies has uncovered a vulnerability in the way many versions of OpenBSD handle IPv6 packets, exposing them to compromise from their local subnet and on IPv6 routed networks.
Who Picks Up the Cellular Tab? By Sean Ginevan
While almost all enterprises pay the bills for their employee's wired telephone services (even for personal calls), the same cannot be said for mobile phone statements.
Burgers the McWireless Way! By Tom LaSusa
Thanks to a partnership with Japanese wireless provider NTT DoCoMo, visitors to the Golden Arches in Japan will soon be able to pay for Big Macs and McNuggets with their cell phones.
Spam Scotland at Your Own Risk By Tom LaSusa
Fed up with the daily deluge of spam he received, Gordon Dick, of Edinburgh, Scotland, decided to sue one of his inbox invaders--and won.
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