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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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Product category	STORAGE MANAGEMENT
Score	4.6 out of 5 (get the test results)
Lab Alliance tester		Logan Harbaugh, independent consultant
Best of the Tests distinction	In our Clear Choice Test of products that provide storage management features across heterogeneous environments, HP’s Storage Essentials got the nod over Symantec's Veritas CommandCentral Storage for supporting more devices on the storage-area network — particularly from smaller vendors — and for its scalability. Storage Essentials also held the highest score among all storage products, including NAS appliances and storage servers, tested last year.
What’s new?	No Storage Essentials updates since our fall test.
Buyer’s Guides	Click here for storage management listings.
DISCUSS	Tell us your top pick for heterogeneous storage management.

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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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