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Cover Story
Analysis: Automated Code Scanners By Justin Schuh
Vendors claim that adopting source-code security analyzers will fortify your business and protect your precious data. But should they be your only line of defense, or will they simply lull the IT staff while criminals still prowl?
Analysis: Holistic Application Performance Management By Michael Biddick
Targeting performance problems after they happen is no longer enough. New holistic application performance management products present exciting possibilities for more proactive performance monitoring. We help you make sense of the shifting APM landscape.
Analysis: Out-of-Band Management By Steven Hill
Resolving server problems over remote access is tough if the network is unavailable. A true out-of-band system can improve network uptime. We examine several setups.
Interview: Extreme Networks' Mark Canepa By Andrew Conry-Murray
The CEO of Extreme Networks talks about making life easy for IT with the company's new Universal Port software and about building a development community.
Review: Automated Code Scanners By Justin Schuh
With our developer hats on, we tested three source-code analyzers, evaluating language and platform support, usability and customization. Find out which one stood out from the others -- thanks to its broadest range of technology support across the board.
Rollout: BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.0 By Michael Fudge Jr.
Software helps protect enterprise PCs from unwanted software and malware by managing administrative rights for users.
Rollout: RIM BlackBerry 8800 By Michael Brandenburg
With voice-activated dialing and push-to-talk features, expandable memory and a GPS sensor, the latest edition of the mobile e-mail device earns its stripes as a phone.
Rollout: RSA FraudAction Anti-Trojan service By Andrew Conry Murray
RSA's service helps financial firms track threats and close off infection vectors and data-collection sites. Still, services such as FraudAction should be only part of the solution.
802.11r: Wireless LAN Fast Roaming By Dave Molta
A new fast roaming standard from the IEEE will facilitate secure mobility by reducing hand-off delay in WLANs during transitions between access points.
Virtual Directories Take Hold By Michael Caton
Virtual directories let organizations gather information from many data sources and present that information from one interface, securely. Best of all, open-source options are lowering the entry cost for small companies.
Columns
Strategy Session: Server Consolidation: Just Do It By Art Wittmann
Don't let the war drums and naysayers questioning the security of virtualization put you off from considering a server-consolidation project.
Cash and Burn: Of Standards and 'Marketecture' By David Greenfield
Without the collaboration of competing vendors, UXcomm's SOMA looks less like a solution to managing the virtualized data center and more like a shameless attempt at short-lived media attention.
BuzzCuts
Are Network Engineers Really Ready for VoIP? By Mike Fratto
Results from a recent survey indicte that U.S. network engineers are worried that enterprise networks are not up to the task of handling VoIP traffic--and neither are they.
RIM Adds Glitz to BlackBerrys By Sean Ginevan
The ubiquitous handheld device is getting more consumer-oriented features. How soon before your users start asking for them?
Is Web 2.0 Inherently Insecure? By Jordan Wiens
Many Web 2.0 apps pass data as a JavaScript object or as code that can be evaluated in JavaScript. This approach leaves users vulnerable, in particular, to cross-site request forgery attacks.
Backup Without Wires By Frank Bulk
Cisco's new high-speed WAN interface cards let routers connect to carrier 3G networks using EV-DO or HSDPA.
'Cheesy' Webcam's a Traffic Driver By Tom LaSusa
Cheese lovers have been logging onto a British Webcam in droves to watch a hunk of cheddar ripen.
A Totally Sweet Cell Phone By Tom LaSusa
iPods, cell phones and other small, mobile devices could soon be powered by sugar-fueled batteries.
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