by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Welcome to the test lab

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Dec 12, 20061 min

Behind the curtain: Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia is wrapping up the year by offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his testing laboratory. Meet the servers, storage, and operating systems in Part One, and the racks, networking gear, and more in Part Two. Also, check out his "latest little bit of geekery" involving a Cisco IP phone, Asterisk, and VMware. More holiday goodies: Check out the gift guid

Behind the curtain: Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia is wrapping up the year by offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his testing laboratory. Meet the servers, storage, and operating systems in Part One, and the racks, networking gear, and more in Part Two. Also, check out his “latest little bit of geekery” involving a Cisco IP phone, Asterisk, and VMware.

More holiday goodies: Check out the gift guide for gearheads slideshow and get all the details on some snazzy gadgets that could help finish off those gift-shopping duties — or require some updates to your own wish list. (The HP Compaq nc6400 notebook with global wireless gets kudos, too.)