Network Computing Report #369
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Monday, September 20, 2004

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In This Issue:
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1)  Enterprise IMs Reviewed
2)  Reader Reverb
     - CEO Minute: Active Reasoning's Marv Tseu
     - TechQuiz: Enterprise Information Integration
     - Top 11: Electronic Voting Machines
3)  Calling All Readers
     - Geeks Illustrated: We Want You!
     - Quick Poll: High-Tech Job Market
     - Talk with Network Computing
     - Intelligent Enterprise Editor's Choice Awards
4)  Reviews and How-Tos
     - Storage Pipeline Review: Virtual Tape Libraries
     - Sneak Preview: Cyclades' AlterPath KVM/net16
     - Quick Takes: Broadband Telephony
     - Secure Enterprise: Test Run: Imperva
     - Workshop: Web Log Analysis
     - Centerfold: Raymond James Financial
5)  NWC Channels
     - Security Channel: The World Ends (Take MCMCXXIII)
     - Storage Channel: Tune Into Wi-Fi NAS
6)  Your Monday IT Briefing
     - Microsoft Courts 'Middle Class' Developers
     - Service Provider: Open-Source Developers Stole My Code
     - Why Try a Proof of Concept?
     - The Land Beyond Transactions
     - Has Records Management Become a Commodity?
7)  Opinion
     - BuzzCut: Can Wi-Fi MANs Fly?
     - BuzzCut: Skype Hype?
     - FUDBusters: Steve Ballmer Warns Users Against Linux
     - The IT Agenda: Desktop Lockdown Limits
     - Letters: Making the Grade
     - All the Rage: Windows Security Still Under Fire
8)  Coming Events
     - TechWeb's Webcasts: We Want You!
     - "Real-Time" Business Intelligence--Benefits, Impacts and Options
     - AIIM Content Management Solutions Seminar
     - Management and Compliance of IM and P2P in the Enterprise
     - Integration and Information Management
9)  CMP MarketPlace

Look for the next Network Computing Report newsletter on Monday,
September 27, 2004!

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1) Enterprise IMs Reviewed
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By Lori MacVittie
Security was once the main barrier to enterprise IM deployment, but
today's suites support full encryption and authenticate against your
existing systems. Plus, they typically support a version of directory
services. Instant messaging has moved into groupware products as well.
IBM, Sun, Novell and, to a certain extent, Microsoft offer IM as part 
of
a larger groupware package. We tested seven; find out which one has the
best security and fullest feature set.
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2) Reader Reverb
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a) CEO Minute: Active Reasoning's Marv Tseu
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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b) TechQuiz: Enterprise Information Integration
There's still time to 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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c) Top 11: Electronic Voting Machines
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
from your fellow readers to get you started.
* Alternative greeters at Wal-Mart. I'm sure they would have more humor
and smile. -- Gregory Mamayek
* Florida Lottery terminals: Guaranteed to never pick a winner! -- 
Robby Ambler
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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 this holiday season, techno-wise. We'll publish the geekiest
profiles and wish lists 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: High-Tech Job Market
The high-tech job market lost over 400,000 jobs between March 2001 and
April 2004. Does your "Magic Eight-Ball" see a rebound anytime soon?
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Want to be sure? Ask the online Magic Eight-Ball at:
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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) Storage Pipeline Review: Virtual Tape Libraries
By Howard Marks
Tape is slow but portable; disk is fast and flashy. Together, they 
bring
out the best in one another. Find out which virtual tape offering you
should consider, based on its capacity, support, fit and finish.
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b) Sneak Preview: Cyclades' AlterPath KVM/net16
By Christopher T. Beers
This appliance gives admins secure access to the keyboards, video and
mice of remote servers.
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b) Quick Takes: Broadband Telephony
By NWC Editors
This edition looks at Pactolus Communications Software's SIPware
Broadband Telephony, IQinVision's IQeye101, NetSuite's Small Business
and SecureWave's Sanctuary Device Control.
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c) Secure Enterprise: Test Run: Imperva
This app firewall is a quick study that needs just a little admin
fine-tuning.
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d) Workshop: Web Log Analysis
By Jeffrey H. Rubin
The details of your site's activity can help your organization make
better business decisions. Here's how to make the best use of your Web
logs.
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e) Centerfold: Raymond James Financial
By Kelley Jackson Higgins
A short outage can mean million-dollar losses for a major financial
services company. See how Raymond James Financial's IT staff built a
multilayered security fortress to protect both network and VPN.
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f) Storage Pipeline: Vendor Profile: Cisco Systems
By Jon William Toigo
Discover why the infrastructure company has switched gears, dropping 
its
iSCSI plan in favor of Fibre Channel.
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a) Security Channel: The World Ends (Take MCMCXXIII)
When Microsoft comes out with a critical alert regarding a 
vulnerability
in the software that lets you look at .JPG files, then we should all 
run
outside and dash around in mad, tight little circles while screaming
because, you know, the world is about to come to an end. Right? Wrong.
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Read more from our Security Channel.
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b) Storage Channel: Tune Into Wi-Fi NAS
Always looking for a stylistic edge and perhaps a modest foothold 
within
your IT shop, Iomega has come up with some pretty odd looking--if not
elegantly simple--storage utilities over the years. So it's no shock to
see the company continue down this path with two new NAS devices that
are at once hard drives but also Wi-Fi servers.
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Read more from our Storage 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) Microsoft Courts 'Middle Class' Developers
Microsoft unveils a new version of Visual Studio 2005 for developers 
who
fall between the hobbyist and professional levels.
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b) Service Provider: Open-Source Developers Stole My Code
Application Service Provider Furthermore claims its intellectual
property was stolen by contractors and released as open source.
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c) Why Try a Proof of Concept?
In this free, exclusive Managing Offshore report, learn how savvy
global-sourcing managers mitigate the risks of offshore outsourcing
by carefully planning pilot tests.
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d) 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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e) Has Records Management Become a Commodity?
In the wake of August announcements by FileNet, Interwoven and Vignette
that each has added records management capabilities, the question is
"what's the difference (if any)?"
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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: Can Wi-Fi MANs Fly?
By Dave Molta
Large cities may get Wi-Fi networks in the air, but how long will they
stay up?
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b) BuzzCut: Skype Hype?
By Sean Doherty
Will this latest VoIP communication method catch on?
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c) FUDBusters: Steve Ballmer Warns Users Against Linux
By Tim Wilson
Ballmer alerted potential Linux users of its cost, security and legal
standing. Is he sure he's not talking about Windows?
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d) The IT Agenda: Desktop Lockdown Limits
By Jonathan Feldman
If you took away your best employees' freedom, would they still be your
best employees?
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e) Storage Pipeline: A Look at the Storage Professional
By David Joachim
Some one million IT workers manage storage, full- or part-time. If
you're destined for this position, be prepared to work miracles to keep
soaring data volumes under control.
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f) Letters: Making the Grade
By NWC Readers
Walter Gold feels that people need to understand the opportunity cost
associated with choosing one vendor over another.
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g) All the Rage: Windows Security Still Under Fire
The latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of Internet Explorer
vulnerabilities involves drag-and-drop technology.
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8) Coming Events
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a) TechWeb's Webcasts: We Want You!
TechWeb's live, interactive Webcasts bring the industry's top experts
right to your desktop. Join us for in-depth discussions about the
market's most-pressing issues. Click below to receive our weekly update
of upcoming TechWebCasts you won't want to miss. Sign up today.
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b) "Real-Time" Business Intelligence--Benefits, Impacts and Options
An Intelligent Enterprise Market Perspectives TechWebCast
Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 9:00am PST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST
Join experts from Panorama Software and Conchango as they discuss and
bring light to the mystery of real-time business intelligence and how
companies are using it today to make decisions that enable them to
achieve better business results.
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c) 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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d) Management and Compliance of IM and P2P in the Enterprise
Transform Market Perspective TechWebCast
Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 9:00am PST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST
Join Christopher Dean, senior vice president of Marketing and Business
Development at FaceTime Communications as he provides insight into how
companies can adopt and embrace IM efficiently and securely while
meeting stringent regulatory compliance requirements. All attendees 
will
receive a FREE white paper: "Best Practices for Emerging Compliance
Challenges: Electronic Messaging & Communications."
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e) 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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Is your organization outsourcing any IT functions?  Here’s your
chance to sound off about the performance of your organization's
key outsourcing vendors in InformationWeek Research’s Analyzing 
the Outsourcers study.  Share your experiences with the editors 
of InformationWeek by completing our brief and confidential 
survey.  In return, you’ll receive a FREE copy of the report and
be eligible for prize drawings with up to $1000 in prizes.
Participate NOW - 
http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejYE0GPvuP0G4g0CmHE0Ae 

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