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Anti-Spam Software and ServicesAs junk e-mail reached epidemic proportions this year, spam blockers rushed in to rescue ailing e-mail in-boxes. Centralized Patch ManagementPatches were the bane of IT managers existence this year, and many have turned or are turning to centralized patch management to ease the burden (if not their ire over having to patch […]

Ziff Davis Media Inc.s Aug. 19 eSeminar, “Making sense of VPN challenges,” revealed high levels of concern among the several hundred attendees in areas such as justifying virtual private network costs and choosing among various technical options. This event continued, in a sense, the VPN discussion that began during our April 16 eSeminar, “VPN strategies.” […]

Technology waits for no man-or stalled economy. On the next few pages, eWeek Labs analysts take a look at the products and technologies that will be most compelling in the next year. Henry Baltazar notes that “convergence” and “interoperability” will be the watchwords for storage and business continuity as storage management software finally comes to […]

End-of-year stories were never easier nor more difficult to write, as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 both frame and overshadow everything that happened this year. Indeed, in eWEEK Labs wrap-up of the year that was, security issues figure heavily on just about every analysts list-whether named as the top tech story of the year […]