Security: Risk and Reward:  No excuses -- encrypt all laptops
No more excuses: If you're not encrypting laptops, you are not applying due diligence.
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'Net Insider:  SCO Group: Its future is all used up
More bad news in court for The SCO Group, which is good news for the industry, writes columnist Scott Bradner.
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EMA on Management:  WAN Optimization: Tactical or strategic or both?
As you may have suspected from some of my prior columns, I've found the product strategies in the WAN optimization market something of a puzzle.
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Small Business Tech:  Plugging iPhones into small businesses
Apple's iPhone drew criticism when first released because of tepid enterprise business support. Small businesses felt the pain of iPhone envy more sharply than their enterprise counterparts because of the high upfront cost of the first iPhone and the back-end support requirements for high-end e-mail and communication servers.
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Backspin:  City of San Francisco management fails
That a San Francisco City network manager could become a 'rogue' and the city's network compromised is the fault of inadequate city management.
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Gearhead:  Something to sync about
Gibbs takes a look at a cross-platform file synchronization system and then thinks about extending the idea.
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Eye on the Carriers:  The carrier commodity conundrum
We all know that these days, bandwidth is "free." Specifically, it's a commodity service whose cost is so low that it's no longer a significant component of telecom costs.
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'Net Buzz:  Aiming to make data-breach research easier
The monstrous data breaches involving millions of records make all the headlines — TJX, AOL, the Veterans Administration. However, it's those whoppers combined with the rat-a-tat-tat of seemingly daily divulgences involving lesser-known entities and fewer victims that add up to a costly and so-far-uncontrolled societal headache.
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Reality Check:  PBT vs. MPLS: What if nobody wins?
Who wins the PBT/MPLS wars? Quite likely neither, because the fight may change how networks move data.
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Cool Tools:  Ease of use makes two devices shine
The Pinnacle Video Transfer handheld device allows quick and easy backup of different video sources. Sierra Wireless' easy-to-install Compass 597 tiny USB device offers wireless WAN access to Sprint's Mobile Broadband.
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