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What Do You Look For in a Big Iron Review?

Posted by Cliff on from the ask-and-he-will-try-and-provide dept.

ValourX writes "We're starting to write more reviews of enterprise-class hardware and software and although we've done pretty well with our reviews, the high-end products are a lot trickier when it comes to testing and evaluation. Obviously it is not possible to build an enterprise-grade 'your neck is on the line' production environment just for writing reviews, but maybe we can do something smaller, just for testing purposes. What do you as an IT professional want to read in a review for a server OS or a high-speed switch, or a big iron server or proprietary workstation? What tests should we run? What results and feature comparisons are going to be most meaningful to you?"

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  1. duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does it run linux?

    Will it get along well w/ old people in Korea?

    Will it do ironing for us in Soviet Russia?

  2. can it... by freshman_a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    be used to build a beowulf cluster...

    --
    Slackware
  3. Satisfaction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The only reason to use Big Iron is because you can't get satisfaction any other way (e.g. lack of size, stamina) or maybe because it's not convenient (i.e. man-whores are a nuisance). What I look for in Big Iron is something substantial enough to fill me, and strong enough to keep going. I don't want to down at the store looking for new steel when I could be cleaning the crust of my trusty friend--

    wait... this story appears to be about servers... never mind.

  4. Re:Not Speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, your post gave me a headache. The content was decent, but your writing is horrible. First, you Seem to capitalize Random words In sentences. Secondly, "secondly" is not a word. Also, have you ever heard of a question mark. Please, try harder next time.