2008 Best of the Tests winners Out of the more than 170 products tested by our Lab Alliance members last year, a dozen stand out as the absolute best. They
excel in performance, ease of use and feature functionality. +AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer • FastScale’s FastScale Composer Suite • Heroix Longitude • HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure • IBM Lotus Sametime • Juniper’s ISG-1000 • LogMeIn’s LogMeIn IT Reach • NetSupport’s NetSupport Manager • Riverbed’s Steelhead•SolarWinds’ ipMonitor 8.0 • Symantec Network Access Control • VMware ESX Server 3 with VirtualCenter
Fave raves Readers tell us about seven products they love for making their IT operations more efficient, mobile and secure. +Citrix XenSource • Coradiant's TrueSight IM • Lumension Security's Sanctuary Application Control and PatchLink Update • VMware ESX Server • Wave Systems' Embassy Trust Suite • Zenprise's Zenprise for BlackBerry
Your picks Which products deserve kudos for improving the way your enterprise works?
Sleepers but keepers Five products and technologies that went from so-so to highly promising as testers checked them out +Mu Security's Mu-4000 • NetFlow • Packeteer's iShaper 400 • Radware's Linkproof 1000 • SonicWall's SonicWall Pro 5060
2008 Category-Breaker Award winners Selected by columnists and bloggers, six innovative products focusing on today's biggest challenges, from how to keep the
data center cool to how to support social networking in the enterprise
Active Power’s CoolAir UPS JAMES GASKIN: “You can replace a very large UPS system with a fairly small … flywheel UPS and save data center room and avoid typical UPS
battery creation and disposal problems.”
Cisco’s VFrame Data Center MITCHELL ASHLEY: “Now servers and storage and the network itself can all by dynamically configured.”
OpenID 2.0 DAVE KEARNS: “2.0 makes the whole [OpenID single sign-on] protocol useful.”
Sourcefire’s Sourcefire 3D System JOEL SNYDER: “The Defense Center [piece] is really … a security information management system that is very tightly and beautifully integrated
with the IDS and IPS … and the vulnerability management system.”
Twitter MARK GIBBS: “Could become a major player in the Web 2.0 world and potentially become an enterprise solution in specialized areas.”
Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.
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Gartner 2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling
Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.
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Workload Automation Cost Savings 2 Minute Video
A major computer manufacturer uses BMC CONTROL-M and just four people to schedule and run over 85,000 jobs every month. By switching to BMC CONTROL-M, they more than quadrupled the workload without adding a single staff member. See how in this 2-minute video overview.
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