Sandra Gittlen

Real-Time Collaboration Takes Real Work

The excitement around collaboration tools is building in the IT community. However, experts warn that companies should start preparing now for the nuances of real-time communications. From compliance...

Desktop Search Tools Spark Enterprise Interest

While AskJeeves, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all are making a splash with their individual desktop search tools for the consumer market, IT pros say these products, and...

Sentivist IPS Takes Datamation Security Award

Few would argue that prevention is the best form of network security. Certainly not the Datamation readers who supported NFR Security's Sentivist IPS as the winner in...

Microsoft Takes Top Honors For Enterprise IM

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. IT managers looking to thwart renegade use of consumer-oriented instant messaging tools are turning to enterprise collaboration tools with sophisticated features. And...

RFID: Nearly Ready for Prime Time

Sometimes being an early technology adopter can be a downer. But Bill Miller, CIO for El Paso County in Colorado, plans to use what he has learned...

Protecting Data with a Military-Style DMZ

For Allen Gwinn, senior IT director at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the question is not if his 15,000-user network will be exposed, but how to control...

Stemming the Flood of Patches

As CIO for Tasty Baking Co. in Philadelphia, Autumn Bayles faces a constant stressor -- the onslaught of security software patches and updates. ''When a patch is released...

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