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Cover Story
Analysis: Enterprise Key Management By Jordan Wiens and Steven Hill
If you don't manage encryption--and the keys that it generates--wisely, data will eventually be lost or compromised. We discuss how to keep keys manageable and safe now, and discuss what to look for in an enterprise key management system
Analysis: Mobile Instant Messaging By Peter Rysavy
Mobile IM can be a powerful productivity tool, but IT groups are prone to dismiss it as a consumer-focused novelty. Here's why you should keep this technology on your radar.
Analysis: Carrier Ethernet By Mike Fratto
Carrier Ethernet promises higher data rates, more flexible provisioning and lower cost than
conventional WAN technologies, but coverage is spotty. We spoke with Qwest and surveyed our
readers about the state of the market.
Interview: Altiris' Greg Butterfield By Andrew Conry-Murray
The Group President of the Altiris' Business Unit of Symantec talks about the
promises--and perils--of being acquired.
Reviews
Analysis: Mobile Device Management By Sean Ginevan
Can't afford the problems inherent in unmanaged handhelds? A strategic mobility initiative must
include device management to keep your users in sync. We evaluate the four leading
architectures.
Review: Enterprise Key Management Software By Steven Hill
Encryption is hot, and its buzzword status only grows with each revelation of sensitive corporate information gone missing. Are vendor's products keeping pace with their products? We analyze key management offerings from NeoScale, Decru, nCipher, RSA and Sun Microsystems
Rollout: Lockdown Networks Enforcer 4.2.7 By Mike Fratto
Lockdown integrates syslog events but stumbles on several key features, such as event suppression and management.
Rollout: DiVitas Networks Mobile Convergence Appliance and Client By Frank Bulk
DiVitas' mobile-to-mobile convergence solution is hamstrung by handset issues, short battery life and cellular data service that's not pervasively 3G. In short, it's not enterprise ready.
Windows Stack Changes Boost Network Performance By Mike Fratto
Enhancements to Longhorn and Vista--such as receive-side window autotuning and Compound TCP speed data transfer--look to make more efficient use of network resources.
The BPEL4People Spec Extention By Erik R. Pieczkowski
A proposed optional extension to BPEL 2.0, BPEL4People promises to address a big gap in the spec by standardizing human tasks in a BPEL process. But can it gain acceptance among vendors?
Air Time: Neutrality On the Wireless Internet By Dave Molta
IT pros have long enjoyed the benefits of standards-based network device interoperability and the innovation, competition and low prices it spawns. But in today's mobile broadband market, it's like the early days of telephony: Pick a service provider and live with its devices.
Information Strategist: Rightsizing Data Protection By Jon William Toigo
Substituting a high-availability architecture for conventional disaster recovery seems to be the latest thing, but it's just one approach in a spectrum of potential strategies and is by no means one-size-fits-all.
BuzzCuts
IBM, Dell Servers Go Green By dum
Responding to enterprises looking to lower power consumption, the two server giants have begun to offer more environmentally friendly servers.
What Palm Sees in Linux By Sean Ginevan
Palm announces plans to produce a Linux-based mobile OS later this year. But doesn't this seem like a case of 'too little--too late'?
The Digg Effect: The Truth About Windows BIOS By Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
Microsoft haters were ready with pitchforks and torches over a rumor that the Phoenix BIOS was locking users out of any other OS other than Vista. Notice however we said 'rumor'?
SOA Market Shapes Up By Andy Dornan
Progress on long-developing SOA standards and consolidation among SOA vendors would seem to confirm the obvious: Service-oriented architectures are becoming more real every day.
"But, Daddy, Suzy has an iPhone!" By Tom LaSusa
A new survey indicates that one in four teenagers would willingly pony up $500 for an iPhone.
Rocky Mountain Wi-Fi? By Tom LaSusa
A British mountain climber plans to scale to the peak of Mount Everest--then whip out his cell phone.
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