PC vs. Mac deathmatch: Snow Leopard beats Windows 7

Windows 7 is a worthy rival, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the better operating system by a whisker for discriminating professionals... more

Astaro Security Gateway: Rich in features, poor in performance

Astaro's Linux-based firewall appliance stands out with a laundry list of capabilities, but runs several steps behind top competitors... more

ZyXel ZyWall: The little firewall that could

ZyXel's ZyWall USG1000 delivers a solid set of features, acceptable performance, and a surprising level of attack protection at a bargain price... more

WatchGuard Firebox: Fiery performer at a nice price

WatchGuard's Firebox Peak X5500e is a strong, manageable firewall and the fastest in our test, but complexity and weak attack protection hold it back... more

SonicWall NSA: Death to malware

SonicWall's NSA E7500 firewall combines smooth setup, high performance, and real protection against Internet malware... more

Malware-fighting firewalls miss the mark

InfoWorld Test Center attacks Astaro, SonicWall, WatchGuard, and ZyXel firewalls, and only one puts up a fight... more

How to stress a UTM

We challenged the Astaro, SonicWall, WatchGuard, and ZyXel appliances with a maximum dose of legitimate traffic, 200 VPNs, and hundreds of Internet attacks, all at the same time ... more

Ixia IxLoad's multithreaded testing

Providing flexible traffic generation and simultaneous firewall and VPN testing, the Ixia test tool laid the foundation for our scenario-based test... more

Mu's Internet attacks in a can

Mu Dynamics' Mu-4000 Analyzer and Published Vulnerability Attacks take a hammer to our UTMs ... more

Pimp my datacenter

What happens when you build the datacenter you really want?... more

Five lessons of a datacenter overhaul

A datacenter makeover and migration can go wrong in many ways. Do as we suggest, not as we did.... more

Pimp my datacenter: Avocent

Avocent's MergePoint and DSView out-of-band server management lets our fingers do the walking... more

Juniper Networks sheds nearly 1.3 billion watts

2008 Green 15: Company reaps multiple business benefits from putting datacenter on a server virtualization diet... more

How much monitoring is enough?

Take cost and practicality into account when monitoring employee Internet use... more