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IBM employees play with podcasting November 23, 11:23 a.m. PST

Microsoft making RSS a two-way street November 23, 7:34 a.m. PST

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Mario Apicella
Moving beyond the SAN
Reducing the cost of storage may require more than standards-compliant management apps

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TEST CENTER REVIEWS: NETWORKING

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07/04/05

Aastra VentureIP 480i v. 2.9.0

7.3 Good

Aastra’s VentureIP line of SIP phones is designed to provide many of the features of a PBX-based phone system without the PBX. To some extent,..
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06/20/05

NeoPath File Director

8.7 Excellent

The NeoPath File Director offers a simple way for administrators to optimize use of storage and consolidate file servers with no impact to end-user access..
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06/20/05

Elemental Compliance System 1.1

9.3 Excellent

ECS 1.1 does an exceptional job identifying hosts on the enterprise. Through its powerful policy engine, ECS can enforce connectivity restrictions based on a large..
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