Top 25 Technology Drivers

Network managers are caught in a Sisyphean struggle, pushing their network-performance boulder uphill, only to have to start over when an unforeseen problem occurs. The Remote Monitoring and Simple Network Management Protocol management tools they use probably detected the signs of the problems, but they were buried under reams of data. Jeff Erwin's intent is to make the boulder smaller, first with Protools, which he sold to Netwo rk General Corp., and now again with Kaspia. He is set to deliver a system this fall to reduce the labor-intensive tasks surrounding network-performance management. Give Kaspia Monitoring System an IP address, and it will find all network devices, build a network-health profile, learn the network performance and deliver HTML reports to a Web browser. n Millennium Forecast: The Internet and Web will mature with better throughput and bandwidth, so that the true commercial applications can appear. n Millennium Disturbance: The federal government and court systems apply standards to the Internet that aren't applied elsewhere. Car: Chevy Suburban