Real-world server room nightmares
Bill Detwiler asked TechRepublic members to send in photos of the worst server room messes they've encountered and they really came through.
Bill Detwiler asked TechRepublic members to send in photos of the worst server room messes they've encountered and they really came through.
The 2012 London Olympics are approaching fast, and computer technology is absolutely critical to their success — unlike the last time the capital hosted the Games. Here is a tour of the Olympic Park and some of the back-end systems
Zimbra is an open-source, Web-based alternative to existing mail servers and clients such as Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.
The first of the big-name vendors to deliver a server based on AMD's new 16-core Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) processors, Dell has stolen a march on the competition with an affordable yet highly scalable 2U platform offering all the usual PowerEdge trimmings.
Wholesale telecommunications company Vocus yesterday launched a new datacentre in Sydney which it snagged last month as part of a $5.9 million buyout of E3.
A hugely capable 8-way server, the Fenway 1580-06 isn't for everyone, but for large-scale databases, transaction processing, server consolidation and cloud-based computing applications it's hard to match, with the bonus of GPU processing capabilities if needed.
<p>Reliable and accessible IT infrastructure is now required by organisations of all sizes, including branch offices of larger companies, across almost all industries. The <a href="http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/products/standard_servers/tower/primergy_tx120.html">Primergy TX120</a> is designed to meet the needs of small businesses by providing file, print, application and web serving facilities plus backup storage in an unobtrusive form factor. </p>
Performance tests compare Intel's ICH8R hot-swap platform to a variety of RAID solutions.
Intel's experimental 48-core SCC processor is a pointer to the future says the company. Check out the chip and the lab where it was conceived in our gallery.
<p> Think of Sun Microsystems and you're likely to think of big RISC-based servers and high-end workstations running the vendor's own Solaris operating system. However, that's not all the company has to offer. Industry-standard hardware based on Intel and AMD processors have been on the Sun books for some time, and Xeon 5500 platforms have recently been added that more than measure up when compared to the better-known competition. </p>