Network Computing Report #401
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Monday, May 9, 2005

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In This Issue:
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1) NetWorld+Interop Highlights
    - 2005 N+I Best of Interop Awards
    - Show Highlights
2) Reviews and How-Tos
    - Review: Lab Tested: Automated E-mail Archivers
    - Sneak Preview: Apparent Networks' AppareNet Voice Professional
    - Quick Takes: Security Management
    - Buyer's Guide: Buying an IP Phone
    - Interactive Buyer's Guide: IP Phones
    - Secure Enterprise: Unified Threat Management: The New Firewall?
    - Secure Enterprise: Test Run: Elemental Security's Elemental
       Compliance System 1.0
3) Reader Reverb
    - Top 11: Weird World of Wireless
    - Last Mile: Wonky Windows Names
4) Calling All Readers
    - TechQuiz: Message Archiving
    - IT Exam: ICT IM
    - Become an IP Expert
    - Compare IT: IP-PBXes
    - Tech Support Haiku Winner
5) The Daily Blog
    - Five (or So) Funniest Things I Heard at N+I
    - Fun at Interop
    - Near Real-Time From Interop
6) Opinion
    - BuzzCut: New Infrastructure Could Be Fruit of Juniper 
Acquisitions
    - BuzzCut: Software Vendor: Fix Thyself
    - Down to Business: Don't Give Up on Outsourcing
7) Your Monday IT Briefing
    - IBM Builds Integration Strategy
    - A Tinfoil Hat Is More Secure Than DRM
    - PalmOne Planning New Category of PDA
    - Eight Top Tips for Network Security
    - Python: Get a Grip on Linux
    - Chambers Touts Integrated Security
8) Coming Events
    - The Road Ahead: Living with Sarbanes-Oxley Forever
    - IP Communications: Strategies for Accelerating Your Success
    - Panelists Reveal Their Secrets on Lowering TCO for Application
       Monitoring
    - Building, Deploying and Securing Wireless LANs:
    - Neohapsis NeoCast: Trends in Regulation, Compliance and
       Enforcement
9) CMP MarketPlace

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on Monday,
May 16, 2005.


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1) NetWorld+Interop Highlights
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a) 2005 N+I Best of Interop Awards
By Ron Anderson
Our panel of writers and editors evaluated myriad information 
technology
products, then chose the best in each of seven categories: data
management and compliance, network infrastructure, network software and
services, performance, security, VoIP and collaboration, and wireless.
Check out this year's honorees as well as the Best Start-Up and the
Grand Prize Winner.
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b) Show Highlights
Whether or not you made it to N+I, we invite you to peruse our
collection of highlights from this year's show in Las Vegas. You'll 
find
show floor blog posts and analysis from Network Computing and Network
Magazine as well as the winners of the 2005 Network Computing
Well-Connected Awards.
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2) Reviews and How-Tos
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a) Review: Lab Tested: Automated E-mail Archivers
By Ron Anderson
A new class of products combines the technologies needed to bring some
sanity to e-mail archiving. We evaluated three top automated e-mail
archiver offerings from Zantaz, Waterford and EMC. Find out which one
overcame complexities and high prices to garner our Editor's Choice
award.
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b) Sneak Preview: Apparent Networks' AppareNet Voice Professional
By Bruce Boardman
We tested Apparent's AppareNet Voice Professional 2.6 end-to-end Layer 
3
network monitoring for VoIP and found the product gets at
network-performance problems that often go unnoticed.
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c) Quick Takes: Security Management
By Patricia Thomas
This edition looks at e-DMZ Security's Guardpost, EVault's InfoStage 5,
Dorian Software Creations' Event Analyst and Polycom's QSX.
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d) Buyer's Guide: Buying an IP Phone
By Sean Doherty
The price tag of a new VoIP system depends on the IP phone you choose.
And the phone quality directly relates to end-user acceptance of the
system. We show you how to "FLIP"--consider the form, location,
interoperability and performance of phones--and choose your devices.
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e) Interactive Buyer's Guide: IP Phones
We highlight the top features of today's IP phones designed for a
VoIP-enabled Ethernet network, including audio codecs supported, 
display
characteristics and QoS schemes supported, to help with your product
selection.
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f) Secure Enterprise: Unified Threat Management: The New Firewall?
By Mike Fratto
We put five UTM firewalls through extensive tests to see if they could
detect blended threats and maintain high performance. Although we were
mostly underwhelmed with the results, our Tester's Choice stood out 
from
the rest, having caught all our 'attacks' the first time around.
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g) Secure Enterprise: Test Run: Elemental Security's Elemental
Compliance System 1.0
By JoAnne VanAuken
Elemental Security's Elemental Compliance System (ECS) v1.0 offers a
take-charge approach to identifying and eliminating non-compliant
appliances on the network.
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3) Reader Reverb
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a) Top 11: Weird World of Wireless
This week, we're looking for the "Top 11 worst places to have wireless
access." Make us chuckle--or even cringe--and we may put your entry in
the magazine and/or online. Here are a couple ideas to get you going.
* In your home office, while you're doing your taxes.
* In the room where you're having an extramarital affair.
* In the bathtub, while you're shaving your back.
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b) Last Mile: Wonky Windows Names
By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa
In this edition we chuckle at the Top 11 worst codenames for the next
version of Microsoft Windows, virtual Net disasters and a scrolling
marquee belt buckle.
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4) Calling All Readers
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a) TechQuiz: Message Archiving
E-mail archiving enables enterprise users to manage e-mail storage 
based
on policies and content analysis, comply with legal retention
requirements, and discover and retrieve messages based on search
criteria. Take our latest quiz to test your knowledge of today's
enterprise-level e-mail archiving systems. If you can outsmart our
editors, we'll throw your name into the hat for a free NWC collectible.
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b) IT Exam: ICT IM
In the past few years, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Service
Management processes have generated a lot of discussion. ITIL-based
service support and service delivery implementations are dramatically
increasing the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of IT
organizations throughout the world. One of the foundations for service
management is ICT (Information and Communication Technology) IM
(Infrastructure Management). Take this quiz to test your knowledge of
ICT IM.
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c) Become an IP Expert
If you're trying to determine when to launch an IP communications pilot
project, this collection of our latest, greatest articles on the 
subject
is your starting point. You'll find information on the newest VoIP
standards, technologies and products as well as guidance in evaluating
your existing data network to see if it's robust enough to handle VoIP.
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d) Compare IT: IP-PBXes
Call centers can make greater use of network infrastructure and reduce
costs by collapsing voice and data onto a common IP network with an
IP-PBX solution. Compare and get quotes for top IP-PBX solutions from
AltiGen, Avaya, Shoreline and Siemens.
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e) Tech Support Haiku Winner
Thanks to those of you who submitted IT technical support haikus. Check
out this week's best entry and submit your poem today for a chance at
our editors' honors.
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5) The Daily Blog
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a) Five (or So) Funniest Things I Heard at N+I
By Don MacVittie
Okay, so N+I isn't a storage show. With SNW and SD sandwiching it in,
there weren't a lot of storage vendors there, other than the ones we
invited to the Well-Connected Awards ceremony. Thus, I only got a few
good tidbits out of the show to share with you here. Most of these fall
into the "overheard" category.
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b) Fun at Interop
By Lori MacVittie
If you weren't at the show you missed a few things that, while not
necessarily technology focused, were pretty cool--or just plain 
strange.
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c) Near Real-Time From Interop
By Lori MacVittie
Well, that was an interesting show... Aside from judging Best of 
Interop
and spending an evening partying with our Well-Connected Award winners,
I found time to squeeze in some briefings and walk the floor.
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Read more entries from The Daily Blog.
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a) BuzzCut: New Infrastructure Could Be Fruit of Juniper Acquisitions
By Curtis Franklin Jr.
With its acquisition of Peribit and Redline Networks in one week,
Juniper is putting an application face to network infrastructure--and
perhaps challenging Cisco in the process.
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b) BuzzCut: Software Vendor: Fix Thyself
By Tim Wilson
Trend Micro in April pushed out a faulty antivirus software update that
sucked up all the processor cycles in Windows XP SP2 machines and 
caused
many of them to fail. The antivirus software vendor should make
restitution for such a fundamental and egregious error.
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c) Down to Business: Don't Give Up on Outsourcing
By Rob Preston
Sure, customers complain about outsourcing's costs and complexity, but
companies have been falling into and out of love with the practice for
more than a decade.
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7) Your Monday IT Briefing
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Here are some of the must-read news stories we're following this week.

a) IBM Builds Integration Strategy
The goal of IBM's acquisition of Ascential is to extend its integration
strategy and to complement IBM DB2.
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b) A Tinfoil Hat Is More Secure Than DRM
Some technologies die off when customers reject them. DRM (Digital
Rights Management) is different. Vendors seem determined to foist it
upon us, whether we want it or not.
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c) PalmOne Planning New Category of PDA
Following an accidental posting about its upcoming LifeDrive Mobile
Manager, PalmOne has confirmed it's working on a new type of PDA, which
features a hard drive and improved file-management features.
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d) Eight Top Tips for Network Security
Protecting your network is about more than installing the right 
hardware
and software. We asked the security pros how to do it, and they offer
their eight top tips for network security.
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e) Python: Get a Grip on Linux
This low-key, open-source scripting language is earning a reputation as
a powerful tool for Linux configuration, automation and management
tasks.
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f) Chambers Touts Integrated Security
After years of telling customers that it was necessary to integrate
security into their network infrastructures, Cisco CEO John Chambers
could finally bark about a product that does just that.
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For additional research, check out our online encyclopedia providing
Web-based definitions of IT terms.
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You can find links to these and other breaking news stories organized 
by
technology via our handy NetNews Service.
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8) Coming Events
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a) The Road Ahead: Living with Sarbanes-Oxley Forever
--An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST
Good, bad or ugly, by now you've survived your first audit under
Sarbanes-Oxley. And you probably have a few remediation projects left 
to
do in addition to new ones constantly being added by your favorite
auditor. It's time to create a year-round compliance process. Get
valuable insight from our expert panel on how companies performed in
year one and how to turn projects into processes with automation.
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b) IP Communications: Strategies for Accelerating Your Success
--A Network Computing Expert Series TechWebCast
Thursday, May 19, 2005
11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST
Join Network Computing for this special TechWebCast hosted by Cisco.
Listen to leading experts discuss the business benefits and best
practices of IP communications. Today, businesses of all sizes are
increasingly reaping the benefits of converged telephony and data
services that are easy to manage, flexible and cost effective with
solutions that are right-sized for their businesses. Advanced telephony
capabilities such as unified messaging, voicemail, intercom and
auto-attendant are creating a clear competitive advantage.
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c) Panelists Reveal Their Secrets on Lowering TCO for Application
Monitoring
--An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST
Join Mercury, with special guest speakers from various industries, as 
we
look at case studies from these organizations and how they were able to
reduce the costs associated with monitoring their applications while
still ensuring the best user experience. Learn how to reduce costs and
how to ensure the best user experience.
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d) Building, Deploying and Securing Wireless LANs: A Hands-On 3-Day
Immersion Learning Program for Network Professionals and Engineers
--Presented by Network Computing and the Enterprise Architecture Group
About 20 percent of IT budgets are now dedicated to wireless products
and services. About half of midsize and large enterprises are using
wireless data today and another 30 percent are planning/evaluating
future use. Most current wireless users plan to substantially increase
their usage in the future as well. Are you ready? Register now, space 
is
limited. Call (410) 531-0559 or visit:
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e) Neohapsis NeoCast: Trends in Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement
Thursday, May 26, 2005
9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST
In this event led by Dave Stampley, compliance specialist and general
counsel at Neohapsis, Dave will walk participants through ways to avoid
common compliance pitfalls as well as highlight emerging regulatory
developments.
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