Review: IT Portfolio Managers By Lori MacVittie
If your data is suspect, you may have trouble managing your IT department like a business. But if you've accurately recorded each project's use of time and resources, IT portfolio-management products can help you focus your department and tie each investment to the company's goals.
Review: Antivirus Products By Jim Ryan
Once a new exploit hits the streets, a single misstep can sink your network. We took six antivirus suites for a whirl. Trend Micro had the best moves.
Review: Desktop-Management Suites: How Suite it Is By Michael J. DeMaria
A comprehensive desktop-management system can take the anxiety out of that dreaded task. We tested seven offerings. While Altiris earned our Editor's Choice, LANDesk received our Best Value award.
Workshops
Workshop: SOAP Alternatives By Frank Teti
SOAP isn't always the cleanest integration model for your applications. An XML application architecture without SOAP requires few objects and can be implemented easily inside a Java application or servlet.
Buyer's Guide: Thin Client Devices By Sean Doherty
Is your enterprise ready for a lean machine? If your users work predominantly on tasks that do not require intense processing, server-based computing should be on your wish list.
Forward Solutions' Migo By Lori MacVittie
If you travel between two or more offices within your organization and hate carrying your laptop around, the Migo device lets you transport any part of your desktop between machines without installing drivers or software.
IBM's e325 Server By Steven Hill
Dozens of 1U servers do an acceptable job, and it's getting hard to tell the players apart without a scorecard. But IBM's eServer 325 is based on the new AMD Opteron chip, which means 64-bit speed and performance in a dual-processor SMP configuration for less than $6,000.
Keynote Systems' Streaming Perspective 3.0 By Sean Doherty
Keynote's Streaming Perspective 3.0 service offers real-time monitoring of streaming media and reports on the delivery quality.
Departments
Career Coach Edited by Lorna Garey
This Edition: Which Security Certifications will help you get ahead?
Letters
"Our lab equipment doubles as hot-spare equipment, which reduces downtime in the event of an equipment failure." --Morris Bennett Altman
Quick Takes
This Edition: Event log gathering; an all-in-one managed server; real-time data capturing; and Gigabit Ethernet smart high-density modules.
Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim
This edition: Unintended uses for USB media drives; an anagram genius; and good is backward.
Columns
Storage Alchemy: Don't Count Tape Out Just Yet By Steven J. Shuchart Jr.
Disk isn't a panacea. While disk sales may take a bite out of the tape market, tape technology is still alive and kicking.
Down to Business: Novell's Time has Come By Rob Preston
"Why expect Novell to succeed with Linux? For starters, it's at the cusp of the uptake curve, not a year or three behind it."
BuzzCut: Akamai's Got Your Network By Bruce Boardman
Leveraging Akamai's widely deployed network presence without a lot of heavy lifting on the front end is smart.
BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Lori MacVittie
This Edition: Sun offers SunONE Application Server at no charge to developers.
BuzzCut: Security For Hire By Kevin Novak
Microsoft offers reward money for computer virus investigators. But is it a smokescreen for its own security issues?
BuzzCut: HP Consolidates the Desktop By Steven J. Shuchart, Jr.
HP will begin selling blade client machines to consolidate end-user computing power into a closet.
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InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey 2008
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