Fresh from the Test Center: Our exclusive review of Surgient Virtual QA/Test Management System 5.0 is now online, and according to Contributing Editor Andrew Binstock's tests, this powerful test-lab automation software makes good use of virtualization technology. That power is tempered by complexity, however, so be prepared for a steep learning curve.
Interop-a-rama: Test Center Contributing Editor Brian Chee is at the Interop show in New York, working as part of the Interop NOC team to keep the show network up and running -- as well as getting his hands on some spiffy new technologies and seeing the sights on the show floor. He recently chatted with the CTO and vice president of marketing from WildPackets, a company that makes network monitoring and analysis products, and learned more about their open API project and future plans. Check out the Geeks in Paradise blog post for the full story. And stop by the Inside Interop blog if you're curious about what's going at the show and behind the scenes (they have nifty podcast interviews, too).
The password is "data security": There's much ado about data encryption these days, in the wake of so many lost laptops, lost tapes, and other scary instances of data leaks. Mario Apicella figures that the recent Sun and IBM data encryption technology announcements, promising as they may seem, won't plug all the security holes in a company. Jon Udell makes the point that sometimes you, yourself are the best possible data security monitor. That may be true, but IT can't police the entire organization with actual bodies unless your budget suddenly got super-super-sized -- so check out some of our data security reviews, such as Tablus Content Sentinel or these unified threat managment (UTM) boxes.
Posted by Stephanie McLoughlin on September 21, 2006 06:00 AM
