Cameron Sturdevant

There are some supremely knotty questions surrounding the issues of privacy, especially for enterprise IT professionals, whose very jobs put them in the unique and sometimes perilous position of having to protect data on many fronts. “Privacy for Data Systems,” the topic of an invitation-only symposium held earlier this month at IBMs Almaden Research Center, […]

Network Associates Technology Inc. has issued a controlled release of InfiniStream, a Carnivore-like sniffer on steroids that will significantly up the ante for forensic network analyzers when it enters general release. During eWeek Labs exclusive test of the latest version, slated for general release in the next quarter, we were impressed with the huge capture […]

New Boundary Technologies (formerly Lanovation) has released Prism Deploy, the first post-name-change version of the companys software distribution tool. Prism Deploy gains useful capabilities. For example, I could define group qualifications, such as the amount of RAM and other hardware characteristics, to assign to software patches. Instead of waiting for the results of an inventory […]

Effective networking and management tools reduce costs by quickly identifying and fixing problems. The best part for IT managers is that these products tend to build on their previous successes the longer they are in place. The products that took finalist and winner honors in this category show how technical excellence translates into long-term operational […]

A solid network—one that meets business needs while being manageable, secure and flexible—depends on top-notch infrastructure equipment. The Excellence Awards judges evaluated more than 40 products and services in this category, and the ones that rose to the top represent advances in adding capacity, resilience and flexibility to networks. WINNER Symbol Wireless System 1.0 Symbol […]

Effective testing lowers operational costs and raises the stature of IT in the organization. The quality assurance tools that rose to the top of this category will help IT staff implement services that support business objectives while also containing costs. WINNERS Real World Traffic 1.0 Ixias Real World Traffic 1.0 combines custom hardware and software […]

Qualys Inc.s QualysGuard Intranet Scanner is worthy of serious consideration when IT managers need to assess vulnerabilities in their network infrastructure. QualysGuard, which became available last month, combines a $2,995 hardware appliance with a subscription service that analyzes data collected from any device with an IP address. The cost of an annual subscription that allows […]

Sun Microsystems won a two-year term March 25 on the Web Services Interoperability Organization board of directors. I caught up with Mark Hapner, chief Web services strategist for Sun, and asked him to outline the companys plans, now that its an “insider.” Hapner started with a circumspect approach to his new board seat, acknowledging that […]

Computer Associates International Inc.s eTrust Antivirus has loaded up with new features and increased its scope of coverage—from PDAs to network gateway systems—making it a top contender for IT managers who are in the market for a comprehensive anti-virus product. In the fiercely competitive world of anti-virus products, eTrust Antivirus 7 holds its own against […]

Akonix Systems Inc.s L7 Enterprise Version 2.0 strips the covers off instant messages and, in so doing, will likely chill the emerging uses of instant messaging. eWEEK Labs tests show that L7 Enterprise, released last month, will give IT managers far greater IM surveillance capabilities, with new enterprise features that make it simple to set […]