Cameron Sturdevant

The Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) provides top-notch Web and technology usability guidelines. And Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., a principal at NN/g, has some interesting advice for IT managers. “Business process automation is where IT should be focusing, not on acquiring new technologies,” said Nielsen in an interview May 30 in San Francisco, where the company is […]

Using a variety of tools to track network security is a good way to lock down systems while staying sane on the job. Products that help monitor probes from inside a protected network are becoming increasingly important to the IT arsenal. One such tool, Visualware Inc.s VisualLookout Version 2.0, a TCP port monitoring and alerting […]

Based on the products eWeek Labs tested recently, its clear that branch offices and smaller enterprises get more than just an appliance when they buy devices that combine a firewall and VPN technology with other security applications. The major quality that IT managers should look for in these products is how well disparate applications are […]

Symantec Box Ably Melds Security Tools”> IT managers who have the luxury of building a completely new security setup at the perimeter of a large branch office should consider Symantec Corp.s Symantec Gateway Security Appliance Version 1.0. However, managers who are augmenting installed security tools may be better off investing in more-focused devices or software, […]

Using a variety of tools to track network security is a good way to stay sane on the job. Of particular value are products that help monitor network probes inside your protected network. I just looked at Visualware Inc.s VisualLookout 2.0, a TCP port monitoring and alerting tool, and found that it can indeed be […]

AirMagnet 1 .2 Reveals WLAN Trouble Spots”> AirMagnet Inc.s AirMagnet Sniffer works right, right out of the box—much to its credit and to network administrators advantage and earning it an eWeek Labs Analysts Choice award. eWeek Labs ran the AirMagnet Version 1.2 protocol analyzer on a device that represents new territory for this genre of […]

LAS VEGAS, NEV – Despite the mention of Unix and Linux here and there, the first Microsoft Management Summit, which I attended earlier this week in Las Vegas, was entirely about Microsoft, with NetIQ and Altiris, the summits organizers of the previous four years, shoe-horned in. And this show was almost entirely about SMS (Systems […]

Tools Track More Assets Whether its the Chief Financial Officer looking for numbers for an upcoming budget or the Business Software Association checking a companys software license compliance, two bread-and-butter inventory tracking tools—Asset-Metrix Inc.s AssetMetrix 2.0 and Tally Systems Corp.s TS.Census 2.0—can help IT managers keep an accurate account of what they have and where. […]

If you are a Computer Associates customer, I want to hear from you. Thats because CA is following your money and I want to know if it is really doing the right thing. Its clear from four days of interviewing, attending press conferences and lurking in tech sessions that CA is putting security and storage […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Computer Associates Internationals CA World was about a lot of things, but mostly the software company talked about portal technology. CAs CleverPath 4.0 portal tool, released today, includes integration tools for incorporating third-party applications—an essential addition to the product for rapid deployment. Version 4.0 also has wireless device detection that allows it to automatically […]