Network World Buyer's Guides get a whole new look and feel

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 10/04/07 By Christine Burns Since January, as you may have noticed, I’ve been trying to steer readers of this newsletter in the direction of the Network World Buyer’s Guides, which are pitched as the industry's most comprehensive gateway to detailed information about thousands of products in over 100 technology categories. Now that we’ve built the product listings, we’re shooting to increase their readership as we’ve recently begun wrapping targeted content around them in order to provide IT folks a single, central place that provides information on how to select, test, buy and deploy these products. As always, you can tap into detailed product specs, conduct virtual side-by-side comparisons, and read about how some of these products have fared in Network World's award-winning objective tests. But as a new development, you can now access directly from within these Buyer's Guides pertinent articles -- such as technology primers, market analysis, Best Practices guidelines and buying tips -- that will help you make informed buying decisions. Network World VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will quickly help you pinpoint the hardware or software you need to build out a converged voice and data network. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. We’ve fleshed out the first 10 Buyer Guides this week, and we’re working to get another 20 fleshed out by year-end. If you are in the market for products in the areas outlined in our new and improved Buyer’s Guides, please tap into the links below and check out what’s now being offered. If you have a suggestion on how we can make these Buyer’s Guides even more useful, please let me know. 1. VoIP Security Products 2. WAN Traffic Optimization and Application Acceleration 3. Enterprise Wireless LAN Equipment 4. Unified Threat Management 5. Messaging Security 6. Wireless LAN Security 7. Information Management 8. Storage Virtualization 9. Secure Web Gateway 10. Network Access Control

MOST-READ REVIEWS FOR THE PAST YEAR: (Registration no longer required!) 1. NAC alternatives hit the mark 2. WAN acceleration offers huge payoff 3. Aruba conquers challenge of Wi-Fi scalability 4. Cisco hits on firewall/VPN, misses on ease of use 5. IP PBXs built on open source show promise 6. Vista security needs admin attention 7. Backup standbys show their strength 8. Is Microsoft OCS your next IP PBX? 9. Open source management tools score big 10. Open source Quagga router acceptable

Contact the author: Christine Burns is the Executive Editor of Testing. She can be reached at cburns@nww.com This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007