Monday, July 29, 2002

Feature: Hot MoMs Today's managers of managers oversee your network, applications and systems as well as find the root cause of problems that could lead to serious service delays. They might cost you big bucks, but the payoff could be huge. -- By Bruce Boardman Posted by Network Computing at 12:18:18 AM

Review: A MoM With Smarts We tested five BMC knowledge-module-compatible MoMs. Smarts InCharge Solutions Suite outwitted the others and won our Editor's Choice award. -- By Bruce Boardman Posted by Network Computing at 12:18:02 AM

BuzzCut: SAP DB: The Other Open-Source Database? SAP DB 7.2, quietly introduced and donated to the open-source movement, is a cut above its competitors. True, SAP itself will benefit from this offering, but so will the open-source community. -- By Don MacVittie Posted by Network Computing at 12:15:04 AM

BuzzCut: Rendezvous on the LAN Side Apple's new auto-IP-services discovery protocol, Rendezvous, will make maintaining a network much easier by reducing administrative overhead and lowering user training/notifications. -- By Michael J. DeMaria Posted by Network Computing at 12:14:37 AM

Sneak Preview: Lucent's Security Management Server 7.0 LSMS 7.0 overflows with new features -- QoS support, DHCP Relay and Brick DHCP client support, HTTP app filtering and more -- to put the squeeze on potential security holes in your network. -- By Mike Fratto Posted by Network Computing at 12:13:28 AM

Interactive Buyer's Guide: PDAs We line up the PDAs most likely to be on your list of products to research and provide an easy way to study and compare the features of each, including processor speed, internal and external memory, screen size and resolution, available multimedia features and more. Posted by Network Computing at 12:13:07 AM

Quick Takes We look at these products: SpiderSoftware SpiderBox content-caching software Covalent Enterprises Enterprise Ready Server Benchmark Storage Innovations ValuSmart 160 tape drive Posted by Network Computing at 12:12:48 AM

Full Nelson: Just When You Thought It Was Safe "The names may change, but my song remains the same: I am still taken with company and product names even though my audience might now be a handful of marketing people and not the five people who used to read my column." -- By Fritz Nelson Posted by Network Computing at 12:12:26 AM

Top of the Stack: The Next Revolution in VPNs Frame relay can do most of the things that the new network-based VPNs can do. So the big selling point of NB-VPNs is the reduced pricing structure. -- By David Willis Posted by Network Computing at 12:11:11 AM