ECC memory is a solid companion for home servers and NAS units ...

Unplanned server outages cost businesses productivity. As a result, keeping a server functioning is high on the priority list of most companies. Servers have several critical moving parts, including ...

There are few mid-to-large enterprises at this point that haven’t migrated at least some of their IT operations to the cloud. The cost-savings at scale are real, but shifting infrastructure outside of ...

Hardware transactional memory isn't a new thing. It's a feature that's been around for quite a while on a number of different microchip architectures found in expensive lines of server hardware. But ...

Our own [Dave Rowntree] started running into bottlenecks when doing paid work involving simulations of undisclosed kind, and resolved to get a separate computer for that. Looking for budget-friendly ...

One of the oddities of working in technology is the obsolescence factor and how systems that were once top of the line and prohibitively expensive can devalue to the point you can’t give them away.

Your faithful companion still has some life left in it ...

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its ...

Modern compute-heavy projects place demands on infrastructure that standard servers cannot satisfy. Artificial intelligence training, 3D rendering, real-time video processing, and large-scale ...

Two key factors affect a processor’s efficiency: the cores & size of it and its clock frequency. To install Windows Server properly, your system has got to have at least a 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor ...

Some optional Windows Server security implementations will become mandatory for Microsoft's hardware partners to include in their products, starting in January, Microsoft indicated in a Thursday ...

Google doesn’t talk about its server operations very often; most of what we know boils down to one word: “big.” The company lifted the lid ever-so-slightly yesterday (no April Fool), and gave the ...