Archive for the ‘CRN Technology’ Category
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The converged network—running both voice and data over IP networks—offers cost savings, increased flexibility and new capabilities. Savvy solution providers start thinking about VoIP security from the get-go, not after the fact.
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Sometimes, the most challenging aspect of managing networks is not setup or deployment. Rather, it's troubleshooting problems. Especially problems that may not be readily apparent, like traffic flow or bottleneck issues.
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Some of the biggest names in technology have begun building bridges between the potential of the social Web and the needs of real business. The Test Center investigates.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
The test Center takes a look at Lenovo's ThinkStation D10, a
monster of a workstation designed to handle data and graphics-intensive workloads.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Desktop security remains one of the most critical applications for today's PCs. The Test Center looks at five security suites.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
OpenOffice.org may not exactly be nipping at the heels of Microsoft Office (at least in terms of market share), but the open-source PC productivity suite is slated to launch its milestone version 3.0 release on Sept. 2.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
With all manner of traffic across the Internet continuing to grow exponentially, and crashes, downtime and network performance issues appearing to grow by the month, getting the best possible network performance can become a chore.
At the same time, more businesses are putting employees at branch offices or home offices ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
If you follow the hype and have come to believe online video and social networking are huge, consider this: Through last year, the number of U.S. consumers taking part in online gaming was almost double that of video or social networking, according to research firm Parks Associates.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Dan Thormodsgaard, director of solutions architecture at Fishnet Security Inc., based in Kansas City, Mo., gives a few tips for successfully getting into the NAC space.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
There are a million things to take into consideration when building out network security; making sure that even employees and welcomed guests only get in if they're prescreened is right at the top. Still, development of a common industry standard for deploying Network Access Control (NAC) has been elusive as ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
It's the dead of summer and, in many regions of North America, it's the season of brownouts, surges and even the occasional blackout.
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
For a long time, the most accessible pathway for malware and threats to enter a corporate network was through e-mail. After widespread and rapidly evolving nuisances like the Melissa virus or Netsky, businesses took appropriate measures to shore up their defenses against e-mail threats.
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
A number of vendors are trying to win over the hearts and minds of small-business VARs and their customers by offering up all-in-one solutions. These tidy little offerings do everything from switching and routing to VoIP and security in one box, ultimately reducing the number of appliances a company needs ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
From high-end gaming systems to super-small business systems, here are 10 cool desktops that are sure to turn heads.
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
David Kolssak, managing partner of Turnkey IT Inc., a Wheeling, Ill.-based solution provider, sells voice solutions based around office-in-a-box appliances. Here he discusses handling objections from SMB customers when it comes to all-in-one technology:
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