Feature: Disaster Recovery Planning By Jon William Toigo
If your disaster recovery setup isn't up to speed, you're playing a
high-stakes game with your organization's critical business and
financial data. We explore the DR strategies that can tilt the odds in
your favor.
Review: Disaster Recovery Services By Jon William Toigo
Although five vendors vied to help our fictional retailer, Darwin
Groceries, fortify its disaster recovery strategy, Fujitsu Softek was
the one we dropped into our shopping cart.
Review: Network-Based VPN Services By Darrin Woods
An IP VPN can provide higher bandwidth at lower costs than a Frame Relay network. We evaluated services from four worthy competitors. Newcomer Virtela offered the best value, with its combination of security, ease of migration and comprehensive SLA.
Feature: On Location: McCarran International Airport By David Joachim
We fly back into Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport as it breaks new ground with the deployment of an RFID baggage-handling system.
Workshops
Workshop: WLAN Design By Jesse Lindeman
Building a wireless LAN is no easy job. For starters, you must assess your infrastructure's RF environment and map out access point placement to help ensure good performance. Don't be intimidated; we'll help get you started.
Career Coach Edited by Lorna Garey
This Edition: How can I ask for more money without putting my job in jeopardy?
Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim
Top 11 Favorite inventions of 2003; Geek Tattoos; and Nintendo Online
Emulator.
Quick Takes By NWC Editors
Application management solutions; network documentation; Active Directory administration.
Letters By NWC Readers
NWC reader Ron Fisher asks: "What open-source alternatives remain, now that some are becoming almost as costly as Microsoft's products?"
Developing Trends: App Dev Nip Tuck By Don MacVittie
You'll gain respect by proposing innovative apps that can increase the company's efficiency and save money.
RealityIT: Diplomacy and the Data Center By Hunter Metatek
When I wasn't supervising our data center's move, I was hauling servers,
assembling racks, and connecting power cords and cables.
BuzzCut: Smarter WLAN Antennae By Dave Molta
Signal-processing advancements let systems more intelligently control and decipher complex radio signals.
BuzzCut: Digging Up Buried Secrets By Robert Moskowitz
Few stop to consider what could happen if important players in the IT department lose passwords.
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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