Cameron Sturdevant

Ghost 7.0 nearly succeeds at being all things to all people and is still a good choice for setting up PCs in a central depot. In testing the latest version of Symantecs software (www.symantec.com), I was able to clone a range of Windows 9x, NT and 2000 systems. Besides disk cloning, which is the products […]

With version 4.0, NetIQ Corp.s AppManager remains king of the hill for Windows NT/2000 systems management, but sites looking to cover non-Windows systems should find another leader. Bolstered with new reports and reporting methods as well as support for Microsoft Corp.s emerging .Net systems, AppManager kept us fully informed about the performance and faults it […]

It makes sense that hackers would go after data stored on handheld devices. Besides all the contact information, its likely that confidential business notes and a plethora of personal information are also stored in these devices. However, judging by the number of “threats” screened during my tests of Symantecs AntiVirus 2001 for Palm OS—just three—it […]

The computer security industry got its groove back at the RSA Security Conference by invoking FUD—fear, uncertainty and doubt—to wrest the attention and dollars of corporate IT managers. Entrepreneurs and investors, a fine group of foxes, are trying to profit in a down market by selling guard services to the henhouse. IT managers should resist […]

Marty Roesch, the author of the popular Snort freeware intrusion detection system, whom I caught up with at this months RSA Security Conference, told me that, vendor hype notwithstanding, none of the products at the show really work with one another. Worse, Roesch said, “there is no one product that can tie all the information […]

Its a good bet that it managers who have the difficult task of tracking laptops in the field also deal with the problem of enumerating and updating handheld devices. With the release last month of Callisto Software Inc.s Orbiter 4.0 and Mobile Automation Inc.s Mobile Automation 2000 3.7, IT departments now have a choice of […]

Shunra Software Ltd. has made Version 1.1 of its Storm hardware and software WAN emulation tool significantly easier to use. However, nagging questions about Storm?s price and flexibility could make Shunra?s software-only Cloud tool a better choice for most organizations. Storm, which shipped last month, is a capable tool for IT managers who need to […]

SECURITY Novell has come up with an interesting security technology in the latest version of its NMAS software, which lets IT managers decide how far users can get with various forms of identification. I saw a demo of Novell Modular Authentication Service 2.0 when it was introduced at the companys annual BrainShare user conference last […]

SpiderCache Inc.s updated namesake software has upped the ante in the new field of products that speed delivery of personalized, dynamic Web content. During eWeek Labs tests of SpiderCache 1.5, which shipped last month, we saw performance gains of just under 50 percent when serving dynamically created Web pages via Microsoft Corp.s Windows 2000-based IIS […]

New caching technology is poised to dramatically increase the speed, accuracy and scope of dynamic information that is distributed over the Internet. Innovative caching methods such as CDNs (content delivery networks) aim to speed delivery of crucial data by using policies to govern data delivery. In the case of CDNs, the policies ensure that frequently […]