Fresh from the Test Center:: Trying to meet your file serving needs while juggling NFS, CIFS, and up-and-coming iSCSI can be a tricky. Fortunately, an increasing number of storage vendors are creating filers that can handle all those standards at once. Test Center Senior Contributor Paul Venezia got his hands on four such jacks-of-all-trades from Adaptec, Celeros, Dell, and NetApp, and for the most part, he like Fresh from the Test Center:: Trying to meet your file serving needs while juggling NFS, CIFS, and up-and-coming iSCSI can be a tricky. Fortunately, an increasing number of storage vendors are creating filers that can handle all those standards at once. Test Center Senior Contributor Paul Venezia got his hands on four such jacks-of-all-trades from Adaptec, Celeros, Dell, and NetApp, and for the most part, he liked what he saw. They won’t rival the capabilities of higher-end, and more expensive, options, but “buying a few simply to maintain a nearline backup is a terrific idea.”Bypass the Internet-tiering scam: InfoWorld’s Chief Technologist Tom Yager expresses his frustration with telcos who are sticking smaller subscribers with shoddier Internet service. But a promising alternative has emerged from Towerstream: The company supplies scalable Internet connectivity to businesses in metropolitan areas through a web of WiMax transceivers. Live from Davey Jones’ Locker …: Senior Contributing Editor aand Geek in Paradise Brian Chee has access to some of the coolest high-tech gear at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology. One of his latest products: setting up a raw audio feed, five kilometers beneath the waves, via an open source streaming audio server called Icecast. “This stream from a broadband hydrophone is being used for real science, but it’s still pretty cool to be able to listen to whale song live from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.” Technology Industry