eWEEK Labs’ Top Products of 2006

The ThinkPad X60 Tablet wasn’t just the best tablet, but the best laptop we tested and reviewed in 2006. It’d been a year since we had seen a new tablet from Lenovo, but it was well worth the wait. With Intel’s Core Duo processors, EvDO wireless br

Splunk’s software tool securely indexes and manages log and IT data and makes real-time troubleshooting possible without a forklift upgrade of existing network and system management tools. The broad integration of Splunk with existing tools along w

Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances accelerate WAN performance with caching, compression, protocol optimization and quality of service technologies. In addition to speeding up application performance for a growing mobile work force, Steelhead appliance

Its tough to find much to dislike about VMwares eponymous server virtualization product. VMware Server 1.0 makes it very easy to turn a single physical machine into several virtual ones, capable of running pretty much any x86-based operating syst

As the best-known and most popular—but not the only—open-source telephony platform out there, Asterisk gets the nod for a 2006 product of the year.

Numerous vendors now offer IP PBX appliances based on Asterisk, particularly enticin

It has a market share that is dwarfed by the No. 2 Web browser Firefox and is a minuscule spec compared with market leader Internet Explorer. The average Internet user has probably never even heard of it, never mind used it. But when it comes to st

Pegasystems’ SmartBPM 5.1 provides companies with a strong tool set for building human and automated process workflows. SmartBPM supports an almost entirely Internet Explorer-based application development environment. In eWEEK Labs evaluation of S

Welcome to a new world. For everyone who’s ever mouthed a platitude about the tyranny of the installed base, Apple’s performance this year—the second time that the company has changed its processor platform, in both cases with nearly no impact