Review: XRoads Networks
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XRoads Networks, a private company headquartered in California, is a developer of network optimization appliances utilizing Unified Bandwidth Management (UBM) technology. The network optimization appliances from XRoads Network provides a secure environment for network traffic shaping, multi-WAN network load balancing, and VPN tunnel balancing.
XRoads Networks provides a host of products and solutions offerings. Two of their products are the EdgeXL™ Enterprise Bandwidth Manager and the Edge2WAN™ SMB Bandwidth Manager. Their solutions include Diverse Link Routing, Application Performance Management, Site2Site VPN Optimization, and Enterprise Security Suite, to name a few.
Getting into details about their MultiWAN load-balancing solutions. This happens to be one of the core components of the Edge platform from XRoads Network. It allows you to combine multiple WAN links which enables you to reach an impressive 99.999% uptime. This is talking 24×7 uptime for your network. Imagine what it will do for your business. There is no connectivity issues and end-users and customers are happy. To highlight some of the key features of their load balancing solution. You get
- Multi-homing and reliability (24×7 uptime)
- Broadband aggregation (combine multiple WAN links)
- Inbound server balancing (Improves response rates)
- Application routing (Determine routing of critical Vs non-critical applications)
You can read another great review about XRoads Network at NetworkWorld. Just highlighting their closing statement in their detailed review:
The 5500e is a flexible, good-quality WAN optimization tool that we recommend you look at closely.
The next time you are looking for products or solutions of this kind, do evaluate XRoads Networks.
Custom Designed T-Shirts
BlueCotton.com provides innovative ways to design custom t-shirts online. The online service from BlueCotton has been available since 2003. Since launch of the site it has been featured on many high profile tech websites and even won Adobe Site of the Day in July. If you are looking for some custom christian t-shirts this is the website for you.
Once you select one design idea from several available on the site, it takes you to the design studio where you can customize the t-shirt based on your taste and liking!
Quite an impressive custom design tool, in my opinion. You can add text, clipart, and shapes onto your t-shirt to give it a completely original look. Technology being used at its best to come up with innovative t-shirt designing solutions.
And Yes! They provide free shipping with all standard delivery (Continental US only).
All I want for Christmas Giveaway
Overstock.com is an Internet leader for brand names at clearance prices. Overstock.com offers top-quality brand-name merchandise at 40-80% off, every day of the week. At Overstock.com, you’ll find a great selection on your favorite brands, all backed by the warranties and service you’d expect.
Overstock.com manages to provide such discounts since they have partnerships with many leading brand-name companies. Because of these relationships, they are able to buy products at significant discounts, which then allows them to pass these savings on to you. Shopping is secure on their website and shipping charges are very minimal.
This holiday season, Overstock.com has launched a huge promotion on December 3rd called the “All I want for Christmas Giveaway“. Its quite easy to enter the contest:
- Choose a gift of up to $1000 in value
- Open the Detailed Page for that gift and click on the “Email a Friend” link.
- Enter the contest email address that will be specified to you and that’s it! You stand a chance to win the gift.
There is no need to purchase any item from the website to enter the contest. The contest is open for residents of USA only.
Watch the following YouTube video regarding the contest.
Business Card 2.0
Ooprint has taken the concepts of Web 2.0 to the world of business cards. Their “Business Card 2.0″ is a very unique and interesting way to attract new readers and network with other bloggers. Your blogger card allows you to leave your mark (or rather, your URL) outside the digital world. The unique tag cloud can be personalized to focus on key words that are important to you and your blog.
Ooprint.com offers 100 FREE business cards (you pay only shipping fees). Get your 2.0 business cards today…
Review: Atlantic Dominion Solutions
Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework. It aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created, and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language.
Atlantic Dominion Solutions (ADS) specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced, scalable, database-backed web sites for organizations of all sizes. Atlantic Dominion Solutions is an active member of the Ruby on Rails community and an internationally recognized advocate for Rails education and development. Atlantic Dominion Solutions can be called a Ruby on Rails Company.
The Ruby on Rails Portfolio of ADS is quite impressive. The portfolio provides details of 9 success stories for the company ranging from financial services websites to web 2.0 sites.
ADS claims to have the right expertise with their team of Ruby on Rails developers to make your web projects a success. ADS believes in an iterative development model, which enables you to see and test portions of the website as and when they are developed.
Quoting ADS,
Using one-third the amount of code of other common platforms, ADS builds you a scalable Rails website with two-thirds more functionality than the other platforms can provide.
If Ruby on Rails is your choice for your next web project, do evaluate the services of ADS.
Lets Play Paintball
The game of paintball is a combat sport in which participants eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with paintballs (spherical gelatin capsules containing primarily polyethylene glycol, other non-toxic and water-soluble substances, and dye) shot from a compressed-gas-powered “marker” (gun). A game of paintball usually involves two opposing teams seeking to eliminate all of the other team’s players or variations of it.
Ultimate Paintball is a company that deals in paintball equipment. They sell Tippmann, Spyder, Smart Parts, Dye, and Draxxus paintball gear plus many more brands which you can find on their website. Their top selling paintball guns are Tippmann A-5, Tippmann 98 Custom, Smart Parts Ion, and Spyder Pilot ACS.
Any equipment purchased from the Ultimate Paintball website is shipped for free.
StirSite: Make Your Own Website
With StirSite you can make your own website in a few minutes with everything you need to get your business, store, club, team, or non-profit organization online for under $25.
StirSite provides pc and mac website builder software which has been used by over 173,000 organizations to create web sites, complete with photo albums, email, ecommerce, paypal, calendars, and more than 450 other features without ever having built a web site before.
StirSite provides as many as 30 features at no additional cost. This includes 10 page layouts, photo albums, feedback forms, multimedia support, guest book, recommended sites, mailing lists, newsletters, message boards, calendar, auto responder, map, quotes page, polls, etc.
The tools provided a sufficient to get a website up and running within minutes without having to know web programming at all. This is ideal for those who either have no knowledge of web programming or those who are just pressed for time.
The StirSite website itself is very well designed with a lot of details with screenshots provided for each of the features. This will make it crystal clear as to what each of the features does and should enable you to close the deal faster!
StirSite is currently providing a free 10 day trial? Give it a shot…
Home Theater Seating at BostonTables
In fact, BostonTables has helped over 20,000 customers convert their basements and bonus rooms into Home Theater Rooms, media rooms or game rooms. To make this even better, this holiday season get some good discounts at BostonTables along with free shipping on all your purchases.
If you don’t like any of their existing designs, you can even place a custom order!
If you are looking for home theater seating, look no further than Boston Tables.
Get Norton Antivirus for free
Norton Antivirus (NAV) has for many years has been a popular choice of antivirus software for computer users. For a limited time, you can download a special edition of Norton Antivirus, called Norton Security Scan, absolutely free.
Typically Norton Antivirus is sold for $49.95 but for a limited time, Norton Security Scan can be yours for free. The free norton software allows scanning of files, protection from infected email attachments, and scanning of instant messages.
In this special download of Norton, you are provided with protection from all common types of viruses, as well as detection of Trojan horses, which may allow hackers to monitor your keystrokes and record your every move.
LED Christmas lights save energy
Do you like decorating your house with lights during Christmas?
I’m sure you would like to save on your energy bills and at the same time do some good for the environment. Switch over from using standard incandescent lights to LED Xmas lights. These use only 1/10th of the energy and will last for more than 50,000 hours compared to less than 2000 for standard incandescents. Since these lights create less heat, its better for the environment as well.
A recent EPA report mentioned, if 20% of American homes switched to LED Christmas lights during the average 30 day holiday season it would save 400GWh of electricity.
Do some good for the environment this holiday season and use LED lights.
