Monday, September 23, 2002

New Books and Training Together with Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, we're pleased to bring you a special library of IT books and training materials. Browse thousands of titles and download an exclusive excerpt from the training course, "Hack, Counter-Hack," which includes a free lesson on building a hacker lab. Posted by Network Computing at 12:56:33 PM

TechQuiz: Access & Security How knowledgeable are you when it comes to managing secure access to your network? Our editors will make you think before answering our latest quiz questions. And if you answer them all correctly, you could win a very cool prize from our sponsor, Novell. Posted by Network Computing at 12:56:16 PM

Compare IT: Network Management Tools Network management tools help you keep an eye on your hardware and local- and wide-area traffic. Check out the products Aprisma, Hewlett-Packard and Opticom have to offer, then get a free quote or RFI response from the vendor of your choice. It's just a click away. Posted by Network Computing at 12:55:37 PM

BuzzCut: Are You Locked into Red Hat? The four founding companies of UnitedLinux would have you believe that nonmember Red Hat has designs on overrunning the enterprise. But the premise of this theory is flawed, at best. --By Don MacVittie Posted by Network Computing at 12:55:18 PM

BuzzCut: Blogs: Only Half-Baked Unless developers can deliver on the issue of blog archiving and sorting, the potential of blogs will not be reached. --By Michael J. DeMaria Posted by Network Computing at 12:55:00 PM

Webcast: The CEO Minute Tune in to hear Brad Shimmin's interview with Radware's President and CEO, Roy Zisapel, and find out how intelligent application switching can bridge the gap between networks and applications. Note: Requires RealPlayer Posted by Network Computing at 12:54:39 PM

Feature: It's the Information, Stupid Using business-intelligence tools to discover the nonintuitive purchasing habits of your customers makes it possible to adapt product development, marketing, staff training and even IT resources accordingly. --By Lori MacVittie Posted by Network Computing at 12:54:11 PM

Review: Business Intelligence, With Smarts We unleashed five business-intelligence packages on our own customer data to find out which product does the best job pointing out trends we'd never detected. Cognos Series 7 took our Editor's Choice award. --By Lori MacVittie Posted by Network Computing at 12:53:52 PM

Review: Disk Imaging Gets a Makeover We tested four disk-imaging products that will save your helpdesk staff from hoofing it to client desktops when software needs updating or a user's system is on the blink. --By Cornell W. Robinson III Posted by Network Computing at 12:53:36 PM

Buyer's Guide: Desktop Firewalls Today's hottest firewalls offer policy protection, definable event filters, automatic policy and software updates as well as integration with VPNs and antivirus software. --By Michael J. DeMaria Posted by Network Computing at 12:53:21 PM

Sneak Preview: TippingPoint's UnityOne 2000 Intrusion detection, active in-line filtering and vulnerability assessment come together in TippingPoint UnityOne 2000. But our tests also show that the network defense system missed some key servers. --By Mike Fratto Posted by Network Computing at 12:53:01 PM

Sneak Preview: Jalaam's AppareNet for Network Performance Monitoring Jalaam's software catches network problems, and its detailed diagnostics release info about duplex conflicts, black and gray hole hops and rate-limiting behavior. --By Lori MacVittie Posted by Network Computing at 12:51:55 PM

The Last Mile Introducing The Last Mile, a page chock full of the weird, wacky and not quite front-page material. Check out the Top 11 Rejected Slogans for Microsoft's Palladium, find out if your boss "gets" technology and more. Posted by Network Computing at 12:51:35 PM

Quick Takes We sneak a quick look at these hot products: *MKS Source Integrity Enterprise Edition/MKS Integrity Manager *Mir3 Inlogic *Adtran NetVanta 3200 Posted by Network Computing at 12:51:17 PM

Down to Business: Hard Line on Software "Why should customers have to sift through 40 pages of vendor data to figure out which application or database license is best for their needs? Software vendors should simplify pricing instead." --By Rob Preston Posted by Network Computing at 12:50:57 PM