Barry Nance
Independent consultant
Tests: WAN/LAN, mobile device and application management products.
Barry Nance is a software developer, application architect, consultant and author. He has more than 28 years of experience with a variety of computing platforms, networks, operating systems, application development methodologies and computing languages. He has a broad, deep knowledge of current and forthcoming hardware and software technologies.
As a chief architect, he's designed and help build major e-commerce applications, protocol-based communications systems, and application infrastructures. His clients include such companies Thomson Financial, Equifax and US Web/CKS.
Nance also runs a network computing laboratory containing several local and wide area networks, platforms and networking products.
Among his several books are Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition (Que, 1997), Client/Server LAN Programming (Que, 1994), and Network Programming in C (Que, 1991).
His e-mail address is barryn@erols.com.
Recent tests and articles by Barry Nance:
Symantec offers users ties between client management and security
Feb. 04, 2008
Symantec's Total Management Suite might be a most popular option for existing Symantec desktop security customers because it integrates the client management bits the company acquired last year with the Altiris buy with ...
How we tested the client management products
Feb. 04, 2008
Virtually all our testing took place across 512kbps frame relay, T-1 and T-3 WAN links. The testbed network consisted of six Fast Ethernet subnet domains routed by Cisco routers.
LANDesk Management Suite delivers best all around client management performance - Network ...
Feb. 04, 2008
LANDesk gave us virtually everything we wanted in a client management product – and more. Plus, the LANDesk Management Suite's support for diverse platforms was superb.
ScriptLogic excels in software distribution
Feb. 04, 2008
The ScriptLogic Desktop Authority repertoire of client management functions we tested included standard hardware and software inventory, application deployment, remote control, patch management and centrally controlled ...
LANDesk wins client management shootout
Feb. 04, 2008
In this Network World Clear Choice Test of client management product we review products for a myriad of traditional desktop management capabilities such as asset inventory, client configuration and software distribution ...
Kace appliances works hard at asset management, license tracking
Feb. 04, 2008
The easy-to-set-up, complementary Kace KBox appliances worked in conjunction with each other to subsume a number of our most onerous desktop management chores. The KBox 1200 device handled software deployment, patch ...
Aagon ACMP digs very deep for client details
Feb. 04, 2008
ACMP gave us a basic set of desktop management functions, but the tool lacked a number of significant features. As we explored ACMP, we found no support for initial operating system deployment and configuration, no ...
Novell ZENworks hands in a solid client management performance
Feb. 04, 2008
Novell's ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is a solid, mature desktop manager with several useful features, including asset inventory, license tracking, configuration management, application deployment and remote ...
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