Esther Shein

More and more companies are embracing the benefits of instant messaging as a corporate application. But many are leaving such applications uncontrolled and vulnerable, and the potential for attack is sending shivers down the spines of network administrators. Email still takes priority over instant messaging (IM) when it comes to corporate security, according to a […]

Increasing demands for accurate data is a challenge under normal circumstances. On top of that, firms must be mindful of meeting enhanced regulatory reporting requirements. With all of those needs and stresses in mind, voters have selected SAS Fair Banking from SAS, based in Cary, N.C., as Datamation’s Product of the Year 2006 in the […]

Sometimes the best things in life really are free, like SpamAssassin 3.1, an open-source filter from The Apache Software Foundation. For the second consecutive year, readers voted SpamAssassin the winner in the anti-spam category in Datamation’s Product of the Year 2006 awards. The filter received more than three times as many votes as its closest […]

New doesn’t always mean improved, as some users are discovering of the Treo 700w from Palm, Inc., the winner of the handheld devices category in the Datamation Product of the Year 2006 awards. The 700w, which succeeds the wildly popular 650, received twice as many votes as the second-place winner, iPaq hx2790 from Hewlett-Packard Co. […]

There was a time when Paul Epstein used to sweat being out of the office for more than a few hours at a time. That’s because Epstein, managing director at LCG Capital Group, LLC, an investment banking and advisory firm, is out of the office at least half of the work week, conducting a lot […]

In an increasingly security-conscious world, companies are looking for the best network perimeter protection they can find — especially as demand for wireless capabilities grow. With that in mind, Datamation readers selected WiFi Watchdog 3.0 from Newbury Networks by a landslide as their favorite in the wireless software category of Datamation’s 2005 Product of the […]

At a time when viruses are trying to penetrate network perimeters on an almost daily basis, security has never been more critical. To make matters worse, blended threats — a combination of hacking, Denial of Service, and worm-like propagation — can rapidly compromise millions of machines. Consequently, network security managers have been forced to consider […]

A sure sign of the times is when spam warrants a new category of software. As such, Datamation added anti-spam as a first-time category in its annual Product of the Year Awards. In the new category, users gave top honors to Trend Micro Spam Prevention Solution (SPS) from Trend Micro, Inc. The winner garnered 393 […]

Storage peripherals may not be the most compelling of IT products, but they are necessary nonetheless. With that in mind, Datamation voters chose the T9940B tape drive from StorageTek as the Product of the Year for Storage. The T9940B edged out Brocade Communications Systems’ SilkWorm 3900 Fabric Switch for the top slot. Other finalists were […]

More and more organizations are learning what some already know: SAP R/3 Enterprise holds wide appeal for companies of all sizes. The product’s versatility, flexibility, and perhaps most importantly — ease of integration — led it to take top honors in Datamation’s Product of the Year in the Enterprise Resource Planning category with 36% of […]