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Network World's Buyer's Guides bring together the critical information you need to make informed technology buying decisions. Save time and money by using the Guides to plow through information on the hottest IT products and trends - all in one place. The Guides are segmented by topic and subtopic, covering the essential product categories for enterprise IT networks, and are automatically updated so always contain the latest specs. You’ll also find comprehensive unbiased editorial content and test results to help you make your purchase decision. These in-depth guides include:
  • A powerful side-by-side Product Comparison Tool, along with comprehensive product specs and company data
  • An overview of product categories
  • Technology primers that define how products work
  • Market trends with current information about the vendors in the market, what their products do and where their products are headed
  • Buying tips to help you identify the important questions to ask to avoid pitfalls
  • Comprehensive Test and Review results from Network World's team of experts
  • And Best Practices for implementing what you buy

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TESTS AND REVIEWS
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Cisco Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance
Building a big data center and looking for a switch to match? How do 256 10G Ethernet ports and nearly 1.7 terabits of capacity sound?

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TEST
How we tested Cisco's switch
We assessed the Cisco Nexus 7000 in six areas: high availability (HA) and resiliency; performance with layer-2 traffic, layer-3 IPv4 traffic, and IPv4 multicast traffic; features; and manageability and usability. A detailed version of our test methodology is available here.

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VMware edges out Microsoft in virtualization performance test
With the recent release of Microsoft's Hyper-V shaking up the hypervisor market, we decided to conduct a two-part evaluation pitting virtualization vendors against each other on performance as well as on features such as usability, management and migration.

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