UPS for all seasons: 6 appliances tested
Suffering from blackouts, brownouts, or sags? How about bushfires, floods, or cyclones? Then maybe you need a UPS. We review six UPS appliances.
Suffering from blackouts, brownouts, or sags? How about bushfires, floods, or cyclones? Then maybe you need a UPS. We review six UPS appliances.
In a market dominated by powerful, but power-hungry, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, SeaMicro is bucking the trend in using the humble Intel Atom to create highly scalable and remarkably energy-efficient servers.Its first product, the 32-bit SM10000, was launched last year, and now there's a 64-bit version, cramming 256 dual-core N570 Atom processors into a 10U rack unit.
Whenever possible, learn from other people's failures — it's cheaper than learning from your own. Eric Ries didn't have this advantage when, as a Yale undergraduate, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.
It's too early for businesses to adopt 802.11ac, but this high-speed 5GHz wireless standard offers enough advantages, especially for BYOD, that you'll want to start planning soon.
Cybercrime is now allegedly a bigger problem in the UK than street crime, but hackers may not be the biggest problem.
It's a given that something under your Christmas tree has a little 'batteries not included' note no-one spotted while wrapping it up. No problem if you keep alkaline batteries in the drawer, a little more irritating if you save money with rechargeable batteries because those NiMHs you have are almost certainly pretty flat.
Health and safety is important, of course — it's tricky enough to remain fit and healthy without the added risk of driving without a seat belt, or inhaling your colleagues' cigarette smoke at work all day. However, it can be said to have "gone mad", or at least a little screwy, when a significant piece of the country's scientific heritage comes under threat of destruction.
Despite some initial scepticism we were mightily impressed by the Kace K1000 systems management appliance when we reviewed it back in August last year.The reason for the scepticism was a reluctance to see system management tools as an obvious candidate for hosting on an appliance.
Every year Orange comes up with some sort of wheeze for music festival season. This year it is Power Wellies.
In an announcement yesterday, the Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has called for a full review of smart meter consumer regulations following new electricity pricing structures and negative reaction.