Director, Network World Test Alliance

Barrier to quick and easy access for Network World Buyer’s Guides is removed

Opinion
Oct 11, 20072 mins

* The New and improved Messaging Security Buyer’s Guide

* Number of spam-stopping tools offered by IronMail’s messaging security product: 23 * Starting price for IronPort’s messaging security appliance: $2639 * Types of audit compliance checks ProofPoint’s messaging security gateway supports: 10 * The ability to tap into the Network World’s revamped Messaging Security Buyer’s Guide to compare thousands of product details in this ever changing market: Priceless

* Number of spam-stopping tools offered by IronMail’s messaging security product: 23revamped Messaging Security Buyer’s Guide to compare thousands of product details in this ever changing market: Priceless

* Starting price for IronPort’s messaging security appliance: $2639

* Types of audit compliance checks ProofPoint’s messaging security gateway supports: 10

* The ability to tap into the Network World’s

And now it’s painless as well. Network World has removed the previously enforced registration gate which used to mandate that readers cough up their business contact information before being allowed to dive deep into our Buyer’s Guide product listings.

Taking down the gate was one parameter for making our Buyer’s Guides more accessible to more readers. This new accessibility runs hand in hand with our new Buyer’s guide format as well. Where we’ve previously only offered detailed product listings, we’ve recently built out our Buyer’s Guides to comprise informative articles that will help walk readers through the processes of researching, buying and deploying products in more than 70 active IT markets.

The Messaging Security Buyer’s Guide is just one of the first 10 that we’ve blown out to this capacity. The other nine are listed below.

1. VoIP Security ProductsWAN Traffic Optimization and Application AccelerationEnterprise Wireless LAN EquipmentUnified Threat ManagementWireless LAN SecurityInformation ManagementStorage VirtualizationSecure Web GatewayNetwork Access Control

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Stay tuned, as 20 more guides are in the works and will be published before year-end.

Christine Burns is the Executive Editor of Testing. She can be reached at cburns@nww.com