Cameron Sturdevant

The U.S. congress has just finished work on anti-spam legislation that will likely be signed into law by years end. The bill was a nice try, but I feel confident that Ill be covering anti-spam technology for years to come. The reason is that Senate Bill 877 wont stop the general problem of junk e-mail. […]

Version 8.0 of Neon Softwares LANsurveyor makes quick work of documenting small and midsize networks, and it also scans for changes. In my tests, LANsurveyor highlighted network changes, making it easy for me to see new devices such as wireless access points and new computers. Although change/add/move reports are handy in their own right, Neon […]

NetPro Computing Inc.s Directory Lockdown 3.0 makes it easier than previous versions to get notifications when changes are made in an IT shop running Microsoft Corp.s Active Directory. Although a tad pricey at $9 per user for a perpetual license plus a 20 percent annual maintenance fee, Directory Lockdown was a nice addition to the […]

SnapGear has released a Central Management System console for its Linux-based firewall and VPN appliances, providing a sorely needed component for its devices: central management. IT managers looking for network protection for branch offices can put SnapGear on their prospect list because CMS makes it possible to develop and deploy policies for large numbers of […]

The next probable stage of power-over-ethernet development will be in industrial automation and building control, based on interviews with officials at Cisco Systems Inc., Texas Instruments Inc. and PowerDsine Ltd. Temperature, smoke, heat and other environmental sensors will probably be at the top of the list of near-term future developments and will start appearing sometime […]

Power over ethernet is going to fundamentally change the way LANs are used in the next three to five years by substantially lowering WLAN installation costs and removing one of the key barriers to VOIP implementations. The recent ratification of the POE standard will unleash a slew of new devices on IT managers. Accommodating these […]

The SSL VPN market took a quantum leap toward market acceptance this year, as established security and networking companies trampled one another in a race to purchase startup technology while others developed their own approaches in-house. Next year, we will begin to see the fruits of these acquisitions, as NetScreen Technologies Inc., Symantec Corp. and […]

Visual Network Designs RackWise 1.0, a multivendor equipment diagramming and assembly management utility, takes the sting out of creating plans to rack-mount network infrastructure equipment. IT managers might start to see diagrams, along with exact instructions about where to place rackable network equipment and how to connect devices, including cable type and length. The service […]

Symantecs Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition, released last month, handily tracks basic hardware and software inventory, and it has plenty of new features to make operating system and software deployments easier than previous versions. Version 8.0 of Ghost—which is almost a household word for creating and managing PC images—is a significant upgrade, but Symantec has even […]

Version 2.0 of Inkra Networks Corp.s system software installed on Inkras Virtual Service Switch might just convince IT managers that VPNs, firewalls, and other network performance and security functions can be effectively provided in a single box. Until now, eWEEK Labs has recommended that managers of midsize and large enterprise networks use single-purpose appliances or […]