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John Enck

John Enck is a vice president and research director for Gartner. He has written more than a dozen commercial computer books and hundreds of articles.
Email: john@enck.com

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Single Sign-On Products

By John Enck, 10/28/2003

Save users from having to write down their numerous passwords.

Dog Food to Go

By John Enck, 03/01/1999

This Lab Guy's persistence pays off as he learns that he can live with Terminal Server and MetaFrame to handle day-to-day computing.

Eating My Own Cooking

By John Enck, 02/01/1999

One Lab Guy lives and dies by the technology he reviews and recommends in the Lab.

2nd Annual Labsolutely Awards

By John Enck, 01/01/1999

Find out which products the Lab Guys seleted as their "Labsolutely" favorites of 1998.

Winterm 3315SE

By John Enck, 01/01/1999

Wyse's Winterm 3315SE is a flexible, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-use Windows-based terminal with compelling support for multiple-host connections and the ability to switch ...

Research and Trends

By Randall C. Kennedy, 01/01/1999

This department focuses on what's new in operating systems, hardware, software, support, scalability, the enterprise and Windows NT's take on the trends in the marketplace.

Speed Kills

By John Enck, 12/01/1998

The Lab Guys pit the ICA thin-client protocol against the RDP thin-client protocol and reveal some surprising and facinating results.

TermServer-in-a-Box

By John Enck, 12/01/1998

This unique thin-client solution combines hardware and software components.

Truster 2.4

By John Enck, 12/01/1998

Determine whom you can trust.

RemoteNT

By John Enck, 12/01/1998

Remote control with a character interface.

Moving Day

By John Enck, 11/01/1998

Setting up the Windows NT Magazine Lab in a new location is a learning experience.

NeoStation 220

By John Enck, 11/01/1998

The NeoStation 220 is an instant-on/downloadable Windows-based terminal hybrid and is a fine fit for the thin-client and thin-server environment.

IRAS-8A

By John Enck, 11/01/1998

The IRAS-8A is the ideal Basic Rate Interface (BRI) connection.

Tuning Multiprocessor Configurations

By John Enck, 10/01/1998

For optimal performance, tune your multiprocessor system.

AIM Technology Server Benchmark Test

By John Enck, 10/01/1998

AIM Technology bases its Server Benchmark for Windows NT on a mix-and-load modeling scenario, in which you run a predefined primary application mix that resembles the tasks an NT ...

How Windows NT Dispatches Processes and Threads

By John Enck, 10/01/1998

How processes and threads are dispatched by Windows NT.

Web Security Is Your Responsibility

By John Enck, 10/01/1998

The Lab Guys learn an important lesson from watching attacks on AS/400 and NT Web security: The owner (not the vendor) is ultimately responsible for system security.

8-way Scalability

By John Enck, 09/01/1998

Find out how Microsoft comes up with its pie-in-the-sky performance numbers, and learn whether 8-way systems are really scalable.

Vendor List for 8-Processor Servers

By John Enck, 09/01/1998

Vendor List for 8-Processor Servers

AIM Technology Server Benchmark Test

By John Enck, 09/01/1998

The AIM Technology Server Benchmark Test is based on a mix-and-load modeling scenario that lets you run a predefined application mix that resembles the tasks an NT server most ...