Cameron Sturdevant

At Novells Brainshare Conference, I heard a couple of the companys developers touting LDAPzone.com, a handy Web site for keeping track of what is happening with LDAP, from a (theoretically) vendor-neutral viewpoint. The site has useful information about implementing directories on a variety of operating system platforms, lots of tips and tricks, white papers, and […]

Agilent Technologies FrameScope 350 is a good test tool for cable plant installers and network trouble-shooters who need to certify cable and get accurate after-installation results in a compact, easy-to-use form factor. The biggest problem we had with the product was a terminally misaligned touch-screen that prevented us from scrolling through long lists of results. […]

Core Features Scale Summit Extreme Networks Inc.s Summit 48si does an outstanding job of squeezing 48 ports of 10/100M-bps Ethernet, along with a host of features found in the companys core Alpine and Black Diamond switches, into a 1U (1.75-inch) chassis. With advanced security and traffic-shaping features combined with hot-swappable, dual power supplies and good […]

Testing 10/100M-BPS ethernet switches is not nearly as boring as it might sound. During eWeek Labs tests of the Extreme Summit 48si, we used Spirent Communications Inc.s SmartBits hardware and SmartFlow software to test the new Layer 3 features. To gauge the performance of the Summit 48si—including the number of supported multicast sessions, quality-of- service […]

Novell gave current NetWare users some reasons to hang on to their system and offered potential customers cause to give its technology products a second look during the annual Brainshare user conference held March 17-22 in Salt Lake City. At the lead keynote on March 17, Chris Stone, Novells vice chairman, office of the CEO, […]

The latest version of V-Go SSO, Passlogix Inc.s single-sign-on utility, includes major new capabilities that belie its “.1” status. In eWeek Labs tests, V-Go 3.1 allowed us to easily manage passwords for all of our test applications and enabled us to use any LDAP-compatible directory to centrally manage user credentials. However, aside from options configured […]

Managing passwords is a good first step in taking control of end-user maintenance costs because it shifts some of the work from IT to the end user. eWeek Labs believes identity management, from account provisioning to authentication and directory integration, is the road most enterprises should be traveling. The beauty of a product such as […]

Network monitoring tools ranging from Hewlett-Packards OpenView to Silverback Technologies InfoCare are entering a third stage of maturity. But this upward spike in product usability doesnt mean that IT managers should buy every single one of these tools. IT managers need an element manager that can provide fault information, one or two service-level monitoring and […]

One little goodie that popped up at the recent RSA Conference was Tiny Trojan Trap 3.0, from Tiny Software. In tests, this desktop tool isolated a variety of suspect code and protected my system from becoming the unwitting accomplice of viruses. Tiny Trojan Trap 3.0, which started shipping last month for $39.95, is also equipped […]

Catalyst for Better Network Management”> Cisco Systems Inc.s latest addition to the Catalyst 3550 family, a 24-port 10/100M-bps switch with two Gigabit Ethernet Interface Converters, is a solid choice for midsize to large organizations looking to reduce IT costs through improved network management. In tests at eWeek Labs, we found that the latest twist on […]

In the time since eweek labs finished testing the cisco Systems Inc. Catalyst 3550 24-port product, the company has released the 48-port version, thus expanding the Cisco product line to fixed-configuration devices—an area where the company has not always led the market. When we tested the 24-port version, we used Spirent Communications Inc.s SmartBit 6000 […]

The latest version of Qualys QualysGuard managed vulnerability detection system, released last month, performed admirably in tests at eWeek Labs. I easily generated reports that showed problems and used QualysGuards new report formats to see trends among server vulnerabilities. Unlike other vulnerability assessment tools, which focus on large-enterprise networks, Qualys provides scanning services and vulnerability […]