Recent Articles
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The Pros and Cons of Security Appliances
This year was the worst ever for worms and viruses, and it doesn’t look like the onslaught will slow next year. As IT managers scramble to implement increased protection, integrated security appliances that combine myriad security functions certainly sound like the answer to their prayers. eWEEK Labs’ tests show that implementing an integrated appliance will…
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How to Retain IT Professionals
As a new year begins, the economy and job market continue to fluctuate across nations and industries. Yet, one constant remains: resellers, system integrators, VARs, distributors, and consultants-as well as their customers-face the ongoing challenge of maximizing their existing investments in order to increase profitability and success. Easier said than done, especially as the dynamics…
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Outsourcing: How Well Are You Managing Your Partners?
Only about a third of 663 IT executives surveyed by CIOInsight say they are “very satisfied” with work they are outsourcing. Whether you are outsourcing to others–or are among the organizations being outsourced to–the CIOI findings impact your business. So do their tips for success. Outsourcing IT is now commonplace—even strategic IT functions and applications…
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An Introduction to Web Services
From the first Web to Web servicesThe first Web was implemented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, at that time a researcher at CERN, an acronym in French for the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. It was initially conceived as a method to link research documents together through the Internet. These links came…
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Wireless Security: The Gaps and How to Fill Them
This special report from eWEEK brings you everything you need to know about securing wireless networks, including strategies for handling the chaotic nature of wireless, how to capitalize on current wireless standards, and profiles of technologies that won’t kill a budget. It includes a risk assessment tool, a security aptitude quiz, an article exposing the…
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Six Tips For ASP Success
The success of a few key Application Service Providers is nothing less than the crack of doom for the long-established model of selling enterprise software packages. In a few years the purchase of enterprise scale software packages could become as obsolete a business practice as employing squads of bookkeepers with eyeshades and paper ledgers to…
