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• The death of vulnerability assessment

  Vulnerability scanning and reporting have given way to vulnerability management and penetration testing. In this 3 Questions, Alan Shimel discusses the future of vulnerability assessment and network access control (NAC).  Continue Reading

• What's driving IP address management?

  VoIP implementations and IPv6 compatibility are just a couple of factors affecting IP address management.  Continue Reading

• BitLocker demystified: The basics

  In the second part of the guide to BitLocker, channel professionals will learn how the tool works, and find out about special features.  Continue Reading

• BitLocker demystified: Common misconceptions

  This segment of the BitLocker guide clears up rumors about the security tool by addressing and correcting two common misconceptions to help channel professionals gain a deeper understanding of BitLocker's strengths and weaknesses.  Continue Reading

• BitLocker demystified: Keying up

  This portion of the BitLocker guide deals with controlling BitLocker behaviors using key management. Channel professionals will learn what BitLocker can and can't do.  Continue Reading

• BitLocker demystified: Competition

  This final segment of the BitLocker guide discusses some of BitLocker's steepest competition, such as SecureDoc and TrueCrypt, and offers advice for channel professionals on choosing the right product for your customer's environment.  Continue Reading

• Manager's Guide: Flexibility

  The final portion of this guide evaluates the flexibility of UTM devices, and helps you solidify your UTM decision based on the five arguments discussed.  Continue Reading

• .NET Compact Framework

  The .Net Compact Framework provides you with the tools to build managed applications and access to Web services for handheld devices. Get started with an excerpt from Pocket PC Network Programming by Steve Makofsky.  Continue Reading

• 2007: Single sign-on and more secure passwords

  New security technology -- such as single sign-on (SSO), smart cards and PKI -- has the potential to make user passwords obsolete, according to the vice president of marketing at nCipher.  Continue Reading

• Manager's Guide: Performance

  This segment of the guide offers advice on the importance of testing UTM device performance with real traffic and real network configurations.  Continue Reading

• MySQL alternatives

  IBM DB2, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are some of the expensive alternatives to MySQL, described in this excerpt from "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5".  Continue Reading

• MySQL versions, by the numbers

  Keeping track of MySQL versions can be challenging. This list of version numbers will help you get started.  Continue Reading

• MySQL database glossary

  Look up basic database and MySQL terms in this book excerpt from "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5"  Continue Reading

• MySQL version names

  Since MySQL 4.0, free and commercial MySQL versions have different names, outlined in this excerpt from "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5".  Continue Reading

• MySQL limitations

  Prepare yourself to overcome or avoid this list of MySQL shortcomings from the book "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5".  Continue Reading

• MySQL Tutorial: The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5

  This MySQL tutorial from The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 presents MySQL basics and potential service opportunities.  Continue Reading

• What are the top MySQL features?

  Find the most important MySQL properties listed in this book excerpt from "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5".  Continue Reading

• Using MySQL licensing: Open source license vs. commercial license

  Get an overview of the MySQL open source licensing options in this excerpt from "The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5".  Continue Reading

• Installing Snort: Intrusion detection mode

  In this installment of Snort Report, learn how to run the open source IDS/IPS in intrusion detection mode.  Continue Reading

• Installing Snort: Packet logger mode

  In this installment of Snort Report, learn how to run the open source intrusion detection system in packet logger mode.  Continue Reading

• Installing Snort: Installation

  In this installment of Snort Report, get the basics on Snort installation.  Continue Reading

• Installing Snort: Conclusion

  A conclusion to the Snort Report installments on installation and fundamentals.  Continue Reading

• Installing Snort: Sniffer mode

  In this installment of Snort Report, learn how to run the open source IDS/IPS in sniffer mode.  Continue Reading

• Consuming Web Services and the Handheld Device

  .Net Web Service enables consumers to create rich applications that can access Web Service data--such as GPS--from a Pocket PC. To learn more read on.  Continue Reading

• Pocket PC and P/Invoke

  Learn how to call into unmanaged code with a Pocket PC using the P/Invoke platform.  Continue Reading

• Internet Protocols and the .NET Pluggable Protocol Mode

  .NET's pluggable protocol modes enable handheld devices to request Internet information. Learn more in this book excerpt from Pocket PC Network Programming.  Continue Reading

• Winsock, .NET and the Compact Framework

  Getting started using Winsock Interface is outlined in this book excerpt from Steve Makofsky's Pocket PC Network Programming.  Continue Reading

• Nortel Partner Program Checklist

  An overview of Nortel's channel partner program.  Continue Reading

• 3Com Partner Program Checklist

  An overview of 3Com's channel partner program.  Continue Reading

• Process management bridges IT and business

  Eliminate the disconnect between what the business expects and what IT delivers in your customers' shops with business process management (BPM).  Continue Reading

• Symbol Technologies Partner Program Checklist

  An overview of Symbol Technologies' partner program features.  Continue Reading

• BigFix Partner Program Checklist

  An overview of security configuration management vendor BigFix's channel partner program.  Continue Reading

• New e-discovery rules will change document management

  Learn about changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), how these changes will affect corporate litigation, and how you can help your customers comply with the new rules.  Continue Reading

• The .NET Compact Framework

  .NET Compact Framework can help you set up Web service applications for handheld devices. Steve Makofsky gets us started in an excerpt from his book Pocket PC Network Programming.  Continue Reading

• Networking with Compact Framework

  Use .NET's Compact Framework to help your customers set up their end users with Web-accessible handheld devices. Learn more in this book excerpt from Pocket PC Network Programming.  Continue Reading

• Storage performance podcast with Tony Asaro

  Gear6 and SearchStorageChannel.com teamed up to bring you this storage performance podcast with Enterprise Strategy Group's Tony Asaro, covering storage performance definitions, trends and tuning advice.  Continue Reading

• Network-attached storage (NAS): A technology overview

  This network-attached storage (NAS) technology overview will help you start working with and selling NAS technologies.  Continue Reading

• TCP IP protocol and application performance

  Understand how TCP flow control can impact storage network performance in this excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading

• Data replication technology for IP storage

  Learn to transfer block-mode storage data through data replication technology beyond a metropolitan area in this book excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading

• IP storage networking tutorial: Long-distance storage networking applications

  This IP storage networking tutorial, excerpted from the book IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core covers IP storage data replication technologies, how to size link bandwidth for long-distance storage networking applications, network latency ...  Continue Reading

• Network bandwidth: Sizing for long-distance storage networking applications

  Decide which type of data mirroring to use in a customer's environment and learn how to size network bandwidth in this excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading

• Network latency effects on application performance

  Learn how to troubleshoot storage networking performance limitations caused by network latency in this excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading

• iSCSI storage expands remote data replication

  iSCSI storage holds many benefits over Fibre Channel, when it comes to storage networking, as evidenced in this book excerpt from IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.  Continue Reading

• Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux overview

  Before you choose an open source system to integrate with your product suites, peruse this collection of excerpts from the book Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Bible.  Continue Reading

• Primary advantages of Linux

  Linux has low or no licensing fees, allows you to reuse code, and enables you to incorporate with it inexpensive hardware and compatible applications.  Continue Reading

• Introducing Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

  Understand the differences between the community (Fedora) and commercial (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) versions of Red Hat Linux.  Continue Reading

• Linux's roots in Unix

  Find out what were the conditions that made the world ripe for a computer system like Linux.  Continue Reading

• Understanding the Linux kernel's common features

  The Linux kernel can be modified to support a variety of features, from multiuser accounts to graphical user interfaces in the open source operating system.  Continue Reading

• What are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora?

  To take Red Hat Linux development into the future, Red Hat made some changes to how it did business. Find out how that affected individuals and businesses back then and what it means now.  Continue Reading

• What is the Linux operating system?

  Today thousands of software developers contribute to the Linux initiative. Find out where it all began in this short Linux history lesson.  Continue Reading

• The culture of free software

  If you want to repackage and resell Linux software, the original GNU agreement must be maintained with the software, as outlined in this book excerpt.  Continue Reading

• Why choose Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

  Each Linux distribution adds some extra features to distinguish one from another. This book excerpt outlines many of those features in detail.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization for remote storage management

  A global storage virtualization solution was employed by Carlson Companies to meet remote storage management needs, as described in this excerpt from Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization benefits

  Storage virtualization will take hold as data storage management demands will require companies to optimize storage resources.  Continue Reading

• Disk data virtualization technology

  Disk data virtualization technology should be coming, says a Fortune 500 network manager in Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management.  Continue Reading

• How to solve storage virtualization problems

  Storage virtualization may not be easy to deploy, but this Veritas director explains how it can solve your customers' storage magement problems.  Continue Reading

• Exchange server backup: Choosing the right type

  What kinds of Exchanger server backup should you use? This book excerpt will help you work with customers in establishing backup goals.  Continue Reading

• Virtualization technology: Server, storage and network virtualization

  Virtualization technologies mask, abstract and transparently leverage underlying resources in server, data storage and networking environments.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization technology observations

  Storage virtualization experts opine on virtual storage technology in these book excerpts from Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management.  Continue Reading

• New COSO guidelines give small businesses much needed compliance help

  IT channel professionals may COSO's new guidelines on how to implement Sarbanes-Oxley useful in documenting, testing and implementing compliance technologies for SMBs.  Continue Reading

• Governance should be a key part of app development

  A large majority of organizations have difficulty integrating IT management and governance processes with their systems for managing application development. One solutions provider offers tips for addressing this problem.  Continue Reading

• Eight steps to reducing compliance risks

  Get one risk management tool provider's take on the top three corporate ethics and compliance issues facing major companies today.  Continue Reading

• Ready for some spear phishing

  Antispam/phishing vendor iS3 discusses the current state of phishing attacks and the next defensive measure in the antiphishing arsenal.  Continue Reading

• Face-off: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server

  Open source database management systems are here to stay and it's your job to help customers decide if they should take advantage of them. This feature compares MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server, and offers tips for working with multiple DBMSs.  Continue Reading

• Managed security services come down to trust

  The managed security services market continues to show promise for future growth.  Continue Reading

• Too many BI tools make it tough to share data

  Departmentalized business intelligence (BI) can cause problems data quality problems. Find out why BI needs to be approached from an enterprise wide perspective.  Continue Reading

• Choices abound in blade servers

  Blade servers continue to get regular press, but how do they stack up? Find out how blades can possibly be a benefit to your company.  Continue Reading

• The art of the customer experience

  What do you offer to your customer during the buying experience? Find out why creating an experience is just as important as offering a quality product.  Continue Reading

• Laying the 'Groundwork': Open source network management

  Open source network management solutions offer more than just cost-savings according to vendor Groundwork Open Source.  Continue Reading

• VoIP drivers

  According to a survey, VoIP adoption is growing amongst businesses of all sizes, but reliability and voice quality are the second and third biggest barriers to deploying IP voice.  Continue Reading

• Storage area networks (SANs) design using SNIA Shared Storage Model

  Customers will have specific storage area network design needs, but a framework can help storage integrators and solutions providers determine which technologies are most appropriate.  Continue Reading

• SNIA Shared Storage Model: Practical applications

  Get a practical application of the SNIA Shared Storage model in this book excerpt.  Continue Reading

• VoIP adds applications to infrastructure

  An Empirix study reveals that 98% of companies responding either have or plan a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) deployment.  Continue Reading

• VMware server: How to troubleshoot VMware ESX Server installations

  A VMware server installation rarely goes without issue. This book excerpt by Chris Wolf explains how to troubleshoot VMware ESX Server installations.  Continue Reading

• VMware configuration: Verifying and viewing VMware ESX Server configuration files

  Before starting a VMware configuration, follow these best practices for preparing a VMware ESX Server configuration from Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Virtual Server installation

  Walk through a Microsoft Virtual Server installation in this excerpt from the book Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine software: Working with the VMware Virtual Machine Console

  Must-have virtual machine software is the VMware Virtual Machine Console, which allows local or remote VM creation and management.  Continue Reading

• VMware GSX Server installation for Linux

  Get steps for GSX Server installation on Linux in this excerpt from the book Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Open source stack providers should refine their market focus

  Open source stack providers should plan on emphasizing products less and services more.  Continue Reading

• Virtual machines: Installing and deploying VMs on enterprise servers

  Install and deploy virtual machines (VMs) in your customers' production environments with advice in this chapter from Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• VMware ESX Server installation

  To tackle a VMware ESX Server installation, you must first know Linux. Get VMware installation scenarios in this excerpt from Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Linux commands: Using Linux Survival Commands

  Use these Linux commands with VMware ESX Server, as described in this excerpt from Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Virtual Security: VMware remote authentication

  Ensure virtual security, harden VMware's remote authentication by changing VMware GSX Server's Remote Console port number as described in this excerpt from Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Installing the VMware Management Interface

  This VMware tool, the VMware Management Interface, helps you and your clients manage guest virtual machines on a local host. Learn more in this excerpt from the book Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Open source's role in the extinction of proprietary software

  Open source is here for good. Get drivers to help your customers make the decision to invest in open source.  Continue Reading

• VMware GSX Server installation for Windows

  Get VMware GSX Server installation instructions for Windows in this excerpt from the book Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise.  Continue Reading

• How to install VMware ESX Server smoothly

  Learn how to install VMware ESX Server smoothly so you can avoid having to troubleshoot server installation issues.  Continue Reading

• Post VMware configuration: Understanding the VMware management interface

  After you've configured VMware ESX Server, get help customizing the MUI port number, configuring initial MUI configuration settings, creating the VMFS swap file, assigning network cards and constructing virtual switches.  Continue Reading

• SMBs embrace business management

  Read up on the Small Business Technology Institute's survey findings on SMB adoption and use of business management applications.  Continue Reading

• Integrating multilingual enterprises

  Don't overlook the need for human language integration services. It's currently about an $8 billion market.  Continue Reading

• Packaged integration applications

  Packaging common integration processes allows for better data movement between enterprise applications. Find out how you may be able to profit from packaged integration solutions.  Continue Reading

• Data integration is a process

  Data quality issues are difficult to address -- so many companies don't bother. Find out how you can help address data quality and integration concerns.  Continue Reading

• SLAs are still necessary, unfortunately

  Find out what problems service level agreements can cause for both clients and service providers if not properly handled.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise Information Integration's pros and cons

  Understand the differences between Enterprise Information Integration and a data warehouse before tackling an EII project.  Continue Reading

• Supporting real-time BI with real-time ETL

  Companies are looking to invest in real-time ETL for several reasons. Find out what they are in this Q&A before pitching real-time ETL to a customer.  Continue Reading

• Put data integration in terms execs can understand

  Many organizations have difficulty accessing the right data in the correct format at the time its needed. Get help selling data integration solutions and services to such customers.  Continue Reading

• CRM gets smarter

  It's no news that business intelligence is being tied into CRM processes, but BI is now being tied into CRM technology as well. Find out what else is new in CRM in this Q&A.  Continue Reading

• VARs/SIs will be the new face of open source support

  Customers want to know who to call when something goes wrong with open source solutions, and VARs and SIs are finding themselves the source for support as they move into the open source arena.  Continue Reading

• Details lacking in HP's SOA role

  Hewlett-Packard's role in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) market is still unclear, but this Q&A will still give you a sense for SOA deployment challenges you may face.  Continue Reading

• A holistic approach to database compliance

  With SOX audits becoming increasingly common place, companies need to adopt a best pracitces method to ensure they pass muster.  Continue Reading