Caging the beast: Enterprise application integration is one tough animal to tame. Cast Iron Systems offers a rather innovative approach: stuff EAI into a box. Test Center Analyst Martin Heller peeks into the Cast Iron iA3000 to discover that the hardware approach does indeed ease the EAI process -- at the expense of reduced capability. And if seeing is believing, check out video of the Cast Iron in action. Packe Caging the beast: Enterprise application integration is one tough animal to tame. Cast Iron Systems offers a rather innovative approach: stuff EAI into a box. Test Center Analyst Martin Heller peeks into the Cast Iron iA3000 to discover that the hardware approach does indeed ease the EAI process — at the expense of reduced capability. And if seeing is believing, check out Keith Schultz finds that it doesn’t do nearly as well with traffic such as FTP and MAPI.Peek into MS’s virtual labs: Over in the InfoWorld Virtualization Report, David Marshall offers a peek into Microsoft’s shiny new virtual labs, “which allow you to quickly evaluate and test Microsoft’s newest server products through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes or less.” Technology Industry