Cameron Sturdevant

Insightix Ltd.s Insightix Dynamic Infrastructure Discovery Collector 1.3, a real-time IT infrastructure discovery and monitoring tool, easily documented eWEEK Labs test network without installing agents on any systems. The best part is that devices and network topology changes showed up as soon as any device started to communicate on the network. Click here to read […]

About a year and a half ago, Currenex Inc., a trailblazer in online foreign exchange currency trading, switched to open-source network and system management tools. That change has increased management coverage from one to three locations and has helped accommodate the companys rapid growth. Leaving behind Hewlett-Packard Co.s OpenView suite, Currenex installed the open-source Nagios […]

Getting support for project-based open-source applications often requires a hobbyists enthusiasm to get results. Since the focus of IT managers is on minimizing daily operations costs, having a hobbyist on staff isnt likely to be very appealing. There is an effort under way to solve this problem. I found findopensourcesupport.com while researching an open-source network […]

While anti-spyware products vie for IT managers attention by trumpeting the ill effects and extreme difficulty of eradicating unwanted software, the age-old question of where to install these security tools must first be answered. PCs that travel should have a client-based system, while stationary computers on a company network are probably best protected by a […]

During the last 18 months, Symantec Corp. has made a number of company—and thus product—acquisitions. Symantec appears to want to show off its new wares all in one place—to IT buyers benefit and, in some cases, detriment. Click here to read the full review of Symantecs LCMS 6.0. 2 During the last 18 months, Symantec […]

The U.S. Supreme Courts ruling this week to vacate lower court decisions on MGM vs. Grokster is broadly seen as a victory for movie and music copyright holders over file-sharing software publishers. The decision has little impact on data operations at companies today, and if the narrowly drawn opinion, which never strays from a strict […]

Clearswift Puts Filters to the Test I was eager to test a free service from Clearswift called Web Threat Assessment Suite, which became available in June, to get an idea of the porosity of our anti-spam filter. As it turns out, our corporate managed anti-spam service is doing a very good job, according to Web […]

Even as some e-mail sender authentication schemes appeared stalled by implementation problems, participants at Inbox, the pre-eminent e-mail confab held earlier this month in San Jose, Calif., discussed server-to-server message authentication mechanisms and focused discussions on ways to combat phishing. Less high-profile, but just as important to IT managers—especially in light of regulatory requirements—are e-mail […]

The next big thing in identity management is virtual directories. And we do mean big: big potential for big returns, with big questions still remaining. Virtual directories can significantly change the way identity information is used in midsize and large organizations and can reduce the technical and cost barriers of identity management. However, IT managers […]

When Sandia National Laboratories decided that identity information for some 20,000 scientists, contractors and other staff needed to be more readily available, the organization started looking at virtual directory tools. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about virtual directories. “The biggest driving force is a project called Enterprise Person, where we will establish a central point […]