Info-Tech Advisor Newsletter articles from March 2000

Info-Tech Advisor Newsletter archives from March 2000

Notebooks That Can Take a Pounding.
March 7, 2000... Sources: IDC, Planet IT Some corporate departments are suffering notebook damage rates from 20% to 34% - 1999 IDC Damage Survey Vibration, moisture, dust, and extreme heat and cold can quickly kill the average notebook computer. These...

Intrusion Detection Systems: Not A Full Solution.
March 7, 2000... Sources: ICSA, PricewaterhouseCoopers If you feel that Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are the full solution for your network protection needs, you're wrong! IDSs are marketed as a security "silver bullet," but let's be clear: they're...

Tips For Great Tech Support.
March 7, 2000... Sources: ASP Online Effective technical support is more about how well you communicate and present solutions than your technical know-how. Here are six tips that will help technical support people build trust and avoid misunderstandings...

Network Cable Buyer.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Network Computing Your network wiring should last you 15 to 20 years. For this kind of long-term investment, you should avoid the hype and stick to the standards when buying network cable. * Use Category 5E (TIA/EIA-568A-5) in...

Get the Most Out of E-Learning.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Beyond Computing, Gartner Group, Planet IT Forking out $30 per employee for a Web course versus $200 for an instructor-led class is the single strongest argument for electronic-based learning. Recent Gartner Group interviews of 150...

Network Analyzers: Fast ROI.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Data Communications, Wavetek Wandel Goltermann It can turn an intractable, hours long, CEO-breathing-fire, let's reboot everything problem into a 10-minute, we'll-put-it-in-the-weekly-status-report problem - Noah Davids, Data...

Break Through Business-IT Barriers.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Cutter Consortium Ingrained cultural myths can get in the way of an IT manager's ability to achieve one primary goal: business-IT alignment. Here are some of the myths that line-of-business managers may have about IT and what you...

New Standard for Mobile Wireless Revolution.
March 7, 2000... Sources: InternetWeek, SyncML.org Data synchronization between a portable device and a parent system is not a new issue. However, the coming explosion in Net-connected mobile devices will heighten the importance of keeping remote data -...

Extranets: Maximize Your Competitive Edge.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Aventail, Internet Journal, PC Week, Strategis You've heard constant talk about extranets. Now it's time to take a hard look at what your Extranet is doing for you. Consider: "How do we improve the extranet to maximize competitive...

101 Web Sites For The Road Warrior.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Mobile Computing The nice thing about the World Wide Web is that it is, well, world wide. Mobile Computing has assembled a list of 101 Web sites that the laptop-armed traveler will find useful. Subjects range from mobile equipment...

Architecture Frameworks for Your Network.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Hurwitz Group, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine The ability to rapidly add or extend network components and flexibly rearrange existing technologies is becoming a competitive mandate. Starting off with the right network architecture...

Chip Universe.
March 7, 2000... Sources: chipcenter.com The ChipCenter Web site bills itself as "The Center of the Electronic Universe." That sounds a bit pretentious, but, if you think about it, the integrated circuit is certainly at the center of the IT universe. This...

Sorting Out Browser Compatibility.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Web Review, World Wide Web Consortium A Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is meant to be a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Unfortunately CSS implementation is not always simple. CSSs...

IT Managers Name Best Products of 1999.
March 7, 2000... Sources: Datamation Y2K initiatives meant pretty tight purse strings for IT purchases in 1999. Still, there was considerable spending going on, particularly in areas such as networking and Internet products. This is just one of the...

Consolidate Servers and Cut Costs.
March 21, 2000... Sources: IBM, Sun Microsystems, SunWorld Magazine How can you reduce across-the-board costs by up to 75%? Two words: server consolidation. Server consolidation is the process of bringing together applications and services onto fewer,...

The TCO Savings of Windows 2000.
March 21, 2000... Sources: Glomark Corporation, Microsoft, Network Computing, PlanetIT Windows 2000 upgrades will come at the price of licenses and new hardware. A key question is whether savings over the long term - the total cost of ownership of Windows...