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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 , 02/26/2007

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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.

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What are your best products?By NetworkWorld Community on February 23, 2007, 9:41 amWe told you what our choices were. What would you add to the list?

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security products ruleBy Julie Bort on March 1, 2007, 2:43 pmInteresting that four out of the five products were security related. I guess that says a lot about how much energy IT is devoting to securing the enterprise these...

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AltirisBy Anonymous on March 21, 2007, 12:31 amMy company just moved from Altiris to LANDesk. I'm sorry, but LANDesk doesn't scale for large enterprises and I think the Avocent acquisition is doing nothing to...

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DeviceLockBy Mike D on March 21, 2007, 6:03 pmI'd add DeviceLock instead of Sanctuary Device Control. It is more powerful (integrated with AD Group Policy) and more stable. In our organization, we did a complete...

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BIGFIXBy bigfixcustomer on September 28, 2007, 7:16 pmwe use bigfix, 400 individual sites on a private wan, 103,000 desktops and the product works real nice. It is amazing to watch it operate in real time in a huge...

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