Review: NAS Devices By Steven Schuchart Jr.
First-class NAS devices, with their specialized operating systems that can be optimized for specific storage needs, are now just as affordable as conventional direct-attached storage.
Feature: SIP/VoIP By Peter Morrissey
Having this voice protocol in your corner brings easier integration, more choices, lower costs and the innovation muscle that only a ubiquitous standard can provide.
Review: SIP Phones By Peter Morrissey
Every SIP phone we tested could be declared a winner, but the SoundPoint IP 600 earned our Editor's Choice title.
Online only: NWC Project
Learn how Don MacVittie prepared for this issue's cover package on SIP and SIP Phones.
Workshops
Centerfold: If You Rebuild It, They Will Come By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Major League Baseball reached its own milestone this season. Its newly reconstructed MLB.com Web site stayed online during the busiest opening day in the site's history, fielding queries from 10 million fans in one day.
WorkShop: The 10 Deadly Sins of Wireless By Dave Molta
We've tested hundreds of wireless products in our labs and have talked to plenty of IT managers who've taken the plunge with wireless LANs. Here's our list of 10 Deadly Sins to avoid when going wireless.
Interactive Buyer's Guide: Desktop Encryption
Protect your network's data from intruders and remain in control of your private information. Our interactive charts reveal the many desktop encryption software options available today.
Sneak Previews
Sneak Preview: EmergeCore Networks' IT-100 By Don MacVittie
EmergeCore Networks' IT-100, a small all-in-one network services server, is ideal for administering home-based users or small remote sites.
Quick Takes
This edition: D-Link Systems' D-Link DFB-H7 QuickMedia USB 2.0/FireWire 7-Port Combo; Computer Systems Odessa's ConceptDraw Professional 1.8.5; Clear Methods' Steam Platform 3.10; and Somix Technologies' OStivity 3.0.
Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey
This edition: Getting a real edge before an interview and in-office romances.
Letters
"Linux should, and one day shall, out of the box be easy to administer and use."
~Jim Blake
Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim
Top 11 Reasons to perform a 'Case Mod' on your corporate mail server, D is for Dog, Spray the Waves.
Columns
Down to Business: Don't Be Chilled by Linux Lawsuits By Rob Preston
Having failed to pry a legal settlement or buyout offer from IBM, SCO Group is now going after a second batch of deep-pocketed prospects: corporate Linux users
Buzzcut: Sun Props Up Gnome By Don MacVittie
Sun has said it will add Gnome to its list of desktops distributed with Solaris. This is good news on many fronts.
BuzzCut: WiFi: Exaggerated Flaws By Dave Molta
Researchers in France created a stir when they found an anomaly within the 802.11b standard capable of dragging down wireless LAN performance considerably.
REPORTS
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ANALYTICS Plan and design your enterprise blade server deployments
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