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    eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools

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    May 28, 2012
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      1eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools

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      Each year, eWEEK Labs evaluates hundreds of enterprise-class products on test beds that mimic real-world environments. To maintain the systems that comprise these environments, and to properly put products through their paces, the analysts rely on a c

      2eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Audacity

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      Whether were combining audio streams, editing long recorded meetings or producing the weekly TestRun podcast, the open-source Audacity provides a simple-to-learn interface that hasn?t required th

      3eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Azureus Bittorrent client

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      Giant file downloads are a big part of reviewing applications and operating systems. Where popular downloads are concerned, FTP mirrors can slow to a crawl. Enter Bittorrent, for which download popularity means fetching files as fast as your Internet down

      4eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Barts Boot Disk

      4

      When dealing with an eclectic variety of systems, sometimes all you want to do is boot to DoOS and have system and network access. The free Barts Boot Disk has been a lifesaver in this respect, allowi

      5eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Dreamweaver

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      Whether were working on HTML, JSP, PHP, ASP or any other Web development script, Dreamweaver has essentially become synonymous with building for the Web.

      6eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Filezilla

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      The well-designed and easy-to-use Filezilla FTP client makes file transfers a snap. With support for SFTP, Filezilla also makes transfers secure.

      7eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Gaim

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      For serious IM users, the open-source Gaim supports the Big Three public networks and ICQ (I Seek You) and IRC (Internet Relay Chat), as well as corporate instant messaging protocols such as XMPP, IBM

      8eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Ghost

      8

      When you work in a lab with many different systems and you constantly need to have clean systems running a variety of operating systems and configurations, Norton Ghost is the ul

      9eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Gimp

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      Photoshop partisans may disagree, but The Gimp has served us awfully well in our screen-shot grabbing and prepping operations. Whats more, this free, cross-platform-friendly image-editing application can bui

      10eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Iometer

      10

      One benchmarking tool we rely on is Intels Iometer, which tests file-transfer performance.

      11eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – iPerf

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      The National Laboratory for Applied Network Researchs iPerf is invaluable for performing quick network performance tests of wired and wireless networks alike. Although not as fully featured

      12eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Kismet/NetStumbler

      12

      Whether you need to identify possible rogue or interfering wireless access points, or simply find an open WLAN for a little free Internet, NetStumbler (on Windows) or Kismet (on Linux) provide great in

      13eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Knoppix

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      All you need is a system and a CD drive, and you can have a capable Linux distribution up and running in seconds–no hard drive required. In any testing environment, Knoppix can be a r

      14eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – LogMeIn

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      A free remote-control application delivered as a service, LogMeIn is useful for working with vendors to troubleshoot a problem because it provides good session control and security. Premium services are als

      15eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Metasploit

      15

      When it comes time to gauge the effectiveness of security systems, one of the only ways to really test something is to act like a bad guy. The Metasploit Project makes it possible to do exhaustive penet

      16eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Nagios

      16

      Like a heart monitor for your network systems, Nagios lets us easily monitor our networks for potential problems.

      17eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Nero 7

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      Now functional for all kinds of non-work-related things, like video editing and encoding or photo and music organization, Nero is still invaluable for ripping off ISOs to use with VMWare or archiving data to

      18eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Nessus

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      The core on which many commercial vulnerability scanners rely, Nessus is essentially synonymous with vulnerability scanning.

      19eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Net Snippets

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      A very useful research tool, Net Snippets grabs Web pages and text and images from document formats such as e-mail, Microsoft Word and PDF. The free version allows individuals to collect, organize and

      20eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Nmap

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      The first step in managing and securing networks is knowing what you have. Nmap makes it possible to quickly scan and audit network resources.

      21eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – OneNote

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      There are many simple ways to type up notes, but Microsoft OneNotes ability to combine simple note taking with audio recording and good organization tools makes it indispensa

      22eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Prime95

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      When we test power consumption, we use the torture-test feature in Prime95;a transaction-intensive, Windows-based application used by GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search);to max out ou

      23eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Power meter/data logger

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      These days, server purchases increasingly are made on their performance-per-watt capabilities, which is why we rely on a power meter to collect power-consumption data. The product we use, from Extech, captu

      24eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Putty

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      With a simple Windows executable (no install necessary), Putty allows users to easily get command-line access to SSH-secured Linux and Unix systems.

      25eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Small GigE switches/routers

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      Enterprise networking in a bag. Whenever we need to build a fast network in a remote location or separate systems from our main test network, these small, 16-port switches are a big step up from the old days, when we would load routers, switches and hubs

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