Review: Defense Starts Here By Michael J. DeMaria
Deep inside the perimeter, your desktops and laptops are vulnerable. We tested five desktop firewalls designed to protect your endpoints.
Feature: Come and Get It By Sean Doherty
Pick up the pace and stop messing around with separate message
sources for voicemail, e-mail and fax. A unified-messaging system
lets your users stay informed and in touch.
Review: Plugging the Communications Time Drain By Sean Doherty
That giant sucking sound you hear is your users wasting valuable
time channeling multiple e-mail, fax and voicemail streams. We
tested two unified-messaging systems, Cisco Unity and Interactive's
Communite. Read why Interactive's offering was our pick!
Workshops
Workshop: Making Layer 7 Work for You By Lori MacVittie
Content networking at Layer 7 is an integral part of a well-designed infrastructure. Learn how to avoid latency problems and make the best use of a Layer 7 device.
Buyer's Guide: Are Biometrics The Answer? By Mike Fratto
Biometric authentication looks sexy. But before you start scanning,
consider some of its negatives. We help you put a finger on the right choice!
Xdrive Plus Xdrive By Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
Xdrive takes the frustration out of file sharing with its competitive, secure, controllable and affordable file-sharing service.
A 'Shore' Thing By Lee Badman
Shore's SM-2601F Gigabit Link Protector makes sure your vital gigabit links stay up.
Multisystem Monitoring By Lori MacVittie
This monitoring software runs on multiple platforms, can use
SNMP and offers customized reports.
Departments
Career Coach
An army reservist ponders what will happen to his small business if he's called to active duty.
Last Mile
This edition: Top 11 unusual source code comments; words we should ban; and the Bar Monkey.
Letters
"Vendor participation [in reviews] is seen as a desire to improve, not to protect." --Mike Klinkowski
Quick Takes
We take sneak peeks at Foundry Networks 10-Gigabit Ethernet Module, Compuware Vantage 8.5, Information Builders WebFocus 5 and FatPipe MPVPN 3.0.
BuzzCut: Opening Up the Airwaves By Dave Molta
Despite some technical obstacles that currently let 2.4-GHz products boast better range than 5-GHz products, bandwidth is the name of the game in the long run.
BuzzCut: Systems Management, Red Hat Style By Bruce Boardman and Andy Woods
The Linux distributor's forthcoming management framework is intended to give enterprise IT shops another good reason to adopt Linux.
BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Don MacVittie
We bust the "vulnerability" in CVS, the source-code repository used by many open-source projects.
Industry Insights: Testing Matters By Mike Lee
"You ask vendors how to fix their broken software. Now ask them
how they limit the number of programming errors."
The IT Agenda: Move Beyond the Free Lunch By Jonathan Feldman
"Chargebacks can pay off big time once you implement a well-
thought-out system and work through the lingering kinks."
REPORTS
Analyize In-Line NAC strategies and products.
ANALYTICS Plan and design your enterprise blade server deployments
InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey 2008
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