Network Computing Report #368
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Monday, September 13, 2004

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In This Issue:
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1)  Enterprise Information Integration
       - Data Without Borders
       - EII Suites Review
       - TechQuiz: Enterprise Information Integration
2)  Reader Reverb
       - IT Minute: Cisco on Security
       - NWC Project: Wireless Gear
       - CEO Minute: Active Reasoning
       - The IT Logo Game Winners
       - Top 11
       - Last Mile: Google IPO
3)  Calling All Readers
       - Geeks Illustrated: We Want You!
       - Quick Poll: Oracle Cleared to Aggressively Court PeopleSoft
       - Talk with Network Computing
       - Intelligent Enterprise Editor's Choice Awards Call For
          Nominations
4)  Reviewed
       - Sneak Preview: Adobe's Form Manager 6.0
       - Spam Playbook
       - Sneak Preview: Unify's NXJ 10.5
       - Secure Enterprise: The Payoff: Metrics Matter
       - Secure Enterprise: Special Report: Get Smart With Smart Cards
       - Secure Enterprise: Body of Evidence: Network Forensic Tools
       - Interactive Buyer's Guide: IT Graduate Programs
5)  NWC Channels
       - Storage Channel: Storage Vision Quest
       - Security Channel: Vulnerability Roundup
6)  Your Monday IT Briefing
       - Linux Stakes Out Consumer Electronic Devices Market
       - 64-Bit Systems Head for the Enterprise Network
       - The Right Stuff
       - Spam! Lovely Spam!
       - The Land Beyond Transactions
7)  Opinion
       - BuzzCut: Oracle's "Dare" Backfires
       - BuzzCut: FC Slowdown Not Caused by iSCSI
       - Down to Business: Communicating Business Returns Clearly
       - Industry Insights: Safe Databases Are Key to Security
8)  Coming Events
       - Information Technology for Performance Management
       - Stories From the Front Lines: An End-User Project Profile
          AIIM Content Management Solutions Seminar
       - Integration and Information Management
9)  CMP MarketPlace
10) Subscription Information

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on Monday,
September 20, 2004!


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1) Enterprise Information Integration
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a) Data Without Borders
By Lori MacVittie
Most enterprises keep order information in one system, customer data in
another and inventory numbers in a third. To give users one view of all
this data, you'd need a system that connects all three sources and 
knits
the data together. Yeah, we got that. It's called enterprise 
information
integration, and its promise is tantalizing. The downsides are,
predictably, complexity and cost. But considering the resources now
spent on federating data, we think it's worth investigating.
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b) EII Suites Review
By Lori MacVittie
Of the seven suites we tested, our top pick demonstrated easy
configuration, caching capabilities and exceptional data integration.
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c) TechQuiz: Enterprise Information Integration
Try your hand at our latest quiz on Enterprise Information Integration
technologies and products. If you can outsmart our editors, we'll throw
your name into the hat for a free NWC collectible pen/stylus.
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2) Reader Reverb
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a) IT Minute: Cisco on Security
Tune in to hear Senior Technology Editor Curtis Franklin's recent
interview with Richard Palmer, Cisco's VP/GM of the VPN and Security
business unit for an inside look at how Cisco approaches security. Find
out how the company hopes to secure the Net now and five years from 
now.
Plus, learn why security policies will cover everything from people on
down to sectors on a hard drive.
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b) NWC Project: Wireless Gear
We want to thank everyone who submitted descriptions of how they're
using their wireless gear in the real world. For your enjoyment, we've
compiled the best entries into a reader travelogue.
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c) CEO Minute: Active Reasoning
Tune in to hear Brad Shimmin talk with Active Reasoning's CEO Marv Tseu
on compliance and operational security. Find out just who is 
responsible
for compliance within a company and why legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley
has forever altered the way IT performance changes management.
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d) The IT Logo Game Winners
We want to thank everyone who submitted entries for our recent IT Logo
letter matrix game. The competition was fierce and, apparently, the 
test
equally as fierce. But we have our winner. Plus, you can still take our
quiz and see how you rate right away.
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f) Top 11:  Electronic Voting Machines
This week, we're on the lookout for the "Top 11 post election uses for
electronic voting machines." Make us chuckle in an embarrassing way, 
and
we'll publish your submission in print and online. Here are a couple of
ideas to get you started.
--New Lemon-Coke Slurpee Machines at the 7-11.
--IT user request unbiased evaluation unit.
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g) Last Mile: Google IPO
By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
This edition: Top 11 signs your co-worker is on the Google IPO "friends
list" plus IT truisms and witness the FileMatrix.
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3) Calling All Readers
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a) Geeks Illustrated: We Want You!
We're putting together a special holiday edition of Network Computing
called Geeks Illustrated and, as you might imagine, it's going to focus
on you. So let your inner geek come out and play, and tell us what 
you'd
like for this holiday season, techno-wise. We'll publish your profile
and wish list in our special issue.
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Plus, we invite you to share your favorite horror stories of providing
tech support to family and friends. Feel free to change names to 
protect
the "innocent." We'll post your stories in our special Geeks 
Illustrated
issue.
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b) Quick Poll: Oracle Cleared to Aggressively Court PeopleSoft
Well, it seems the courts may just clear the way for Oracle to take 
over
PeopleSoft after all. Will the bearded warrior be allowed to overrun 
the
finance software market? Vote and see how your opinion stacks up 
against
that of your peers.
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c) Talk with Network Computing
We'd like to talk with you, our dear readers, not via a cold e-poll but
over the telephone to understand how we can build the next-generation 
of
networkcomputing.com. In exchange for your time, we'll send you a
collectible chrome pen/PDA stylus emblazoned with the Network Computing
logo.
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d) Intelligent Enterprise Editor's Choice Awards Call For Nominations
Now's your chance to tell us which companies stood out in 2004 and why
you think they deserve recognition. Make a nomination, and then look 
for
our January 2005 issue to see how your choice stacked up against the
competition in 2004.
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4) Reviews and How-Tos
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a) Sneak Preview: Adobe's Form Manager 6.0
By Lori MacVittie
Form Manager helps organize the deluge of forms your organization
produces.
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b) Spam Playbook
Is unsolicited e-mail clogging your network? Contributing Editor Eric
Hall describes the latest spam-filtering mechanisms you can use to help
block spam from reaching your end users.
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c) Sneak Preview: Unify's NXJ 10.5
By Peter Payne
This complete modeling, development, deployment and management package
simplifies business process building. But is it worth the cost?
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d) Secure Enterprise: The Payoff: Metrics Matter
If end users see you only during a crisis, they'll learn to fear you.
Prove your worth with hard data.
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e) Secure Enterprise: Special Report: Get Smart With Smart Cards
Smart cards can strengthen physical and online access controls and
reduce administrative costs. Here's how to get the most out of them.
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f) Secure Enterprise: Body of Evidence: Network Forensic Tools
Network forensic tools can help crack computer-borne crimes. We tested
two appliances and a software suite. Find out if they'll leave you
feeling like a CSI agent or like the bumbling Clouseau.
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g) Interactive Buyer's Guide: IT Graduate Programs
Looking for an IT graduate program? We've compiled a list of
professional-oriented information technology graduate programs that
prepare students for career advancement in either front-line technical
positions or management-related areas to help with your selection.
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5) NWC Channels
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a) Storage Channel: Storage Vision Quest
Amid the chaos of a holiday week comes this short collection of the 
most
compelling stories in storage we're following: vendors getting SASy;
Mega-Hitachi; slumming with IBM; and the Longhorn data lockdown.
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Check out our Storage Channel.
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b) Security Channel: Vulnerability Roundup
Courtesy of Security Threat Watch comes this quick overview of last
week's most important vulnerabilities and patches: Oracle and IBM DB2
fall down, hard; and MIT Kerberos is in need of an update.
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Read more from our Security Channel.
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6) Your Monday IT Briefing
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Here are some of the must-read news stories we're following this week.

a) Linux Stakes Out Consumer Electronic Devices Market
Linux is gathering momentum in the consumer devices market. It could be
lurking inside your video recorder, your PDA or your cell phone.
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b) 64-Bit Systems Head for the Enterprise Network
As organizations outgrow 32-bit processors, next-generation chips are
ready to take over workloads.
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c) The Right Stuff
Business intelligence applications are moving upward and outward.
Corporate executives, business unit managers, customer representatives
and, now, customers themselves expect quality, timely information. A
roundtable discussion reveals the issues that are top of mind in the
user community.
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d) Spam! Lovely Spam!
Billions of spam messages are sent every day--and the number is 
climbing
quickly. Will this eventually kill e-mail as a business tool?
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e) The Land Beyond Transactions
Led by RFID and enterprise metadata, new streams of information are in
place to move businesses past the traditional world of analyzing only
transaction data. Location analytics and metadata mining are key fields
to watch.
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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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7) Opinion
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a) BuzzCut: Oracle's "Dare" Backfires
By Richard Hoffman
Larry Ellison challenged hackers to break his company's software--and
they did. Should users consider choices other than Oracle?
http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejPs0GO4rP0G4g0CmDD0A1

b) BuzzCut: FC Slowdown Not Caused by iSCSI
By Don MacVittie
Before letting iSCSI take the credit for the recent dip in the Fibre
Channel market, take a look at other factors.
http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejPs0GO4rP0G4g0CmDE0A2

c) Down to Business: Communicating Business Returns Clearly
By Rob Preston
Communicating the business returns you make possible is almost as
important as managing the systems that deliver them.
http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejPs0GO4rP0G4g0CmDF0A3

d) Industry Insights: Safe Databases Are Key to Security
By Mike Lee
Your database and network design may help prevent critical
vulnerabilities from being exploited.
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8) Coming Events
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a) Information Technology for Performance Management
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 -- 11:00 AM PT/2:00 PM ET
Learn how to leverage enterprise reporting and performance dashboard
technologies for effective business intelligence in this Webinar, which
will address consolidation, standardization and the state of BI;
enterprise reporting and dashboards; best practices on operational
deployment of BI for performance management; and important trends and
directions for BI and performance management initiatives.
http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejPs0GO4rP0G4g0CZDS0Aw

b) Stories From the Front Lines: An End-User Project Profile AIIM
Content Management Solutions Seminar
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Washington D.C. (Hyatt Regency)
Doug Henschen, editor-in-chief of Transform magazine, and
representatives from end-user organizations will talk about how and why
a content management solution was implemented.
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c) Integration and Information Management
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 11:00am PST/2:00pm EST
This Webinar will focus on utilizing integration technologies to 
improve
information management competencies. We'll discuss best practices for
integration and information management as well as how enterprise
information architectures are evolving to support global, distributed
integration.
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Join Intelligent Enterprise for a FREE, live TechWebCast on
“Real-Time” Business Intelligence – The Benefits, Impacts and
Options.  Hear from vendors of the technology, learn how a
major retailer is making decisions based on real time data
and see the technology in action via a demonstration. 
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 – 9:00-10:00 AM PT /12:00-1:00 PM ET
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