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January 22nd, 2004    
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Features
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.
Buyer's Guide: Handheld Storage
By Steven J. Schuchart, Jr.
New handheld storage devices offer increased capacity, but IT faces new compatibility, cost and business suitability challenges. Read up before you buy. | View our Interactive Buyer's Guide on Handheld Storage

Sneak Previews
CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine 2.5
By Lee Badman
The latest version rounds up rogue APs to keep your wireless network secure.
Nortel Networks Alteon Application Switch 2424-SSL
By Lori MacVittie
Switch delivers twice the performance of other load-balancing solutions.
Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition
By Steven Hill
A powerful centralized management tool was added to the drive-cloning software.

Departments
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?"
Columns
Down to Business: Get Used to Offshore Outsourcing
By Rob Preston
It's impossible to erect walls around the U.S. labor force short of dismantling the global economy we helped build.
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: IBM Sits Out of the Java Tools Alliance
By Lori MacVittie
Sun and BEA have joined other Java software vendors to align Java tool strategies. Why not IBM?
BuzzCut: Federal Law Won't Stop Spam. It's Up To You
By Ron Anderson
Make a New Year's resolution to continue strengthening your spam defenses.
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.
BuzzCut: FUDBusters: Apple upgrades its Enterprise line
By Michael J. DeMaria
Are Macs viable for the corporate data center?

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