2007 Best of the Tests headliners

A dozen products bubble to the top of the more than 120 reviewed last year by Network World testers

By Christine Burns, Network World
February 29, 2008 03:37 PM ET

Flip through this slide show to see our selections. Plus, get full test results, link to our Buyer's Guides for comparative product listings, and voice your opinion on these Best of the Test picks.

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Product category	NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE SERVER
Score	4.63 out of 5 (get test results)
Lab Alliance tester		Tom Henderson, principal researcher, ExtremeLabs
Best of the Tests distinction	It’s small and it’s mighty. The IBM eServer 326m — now called the IBM System x3455 — deserves bragging rights as “the fastest 1U we’ve ever thrown in a rack,” says tester Tom Henderson, who also gave the box kudos for serviceability. IBM pitches this server to small and midsize businesses that need a compact box for processing CPU-intensive applications. The model we tested had dual-core AMD Opteron 285 64-bit CPUs and 16GB of memory.
What’s new?	The IBM x3455 now boasts dual- or quad-core Opteron 2000 series processors and as much as 48GB of memory.
Buyer’s Guides	Click here for our network server and blade server listings.
DISCUSS	Tell us about your favorite compact server.