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.
Energy consumption concerns can only get greater as the cost of power is set to rise and rise. Larger businesses have complex energy management schemes in place, but smaller companies, and those individuals who work from home, often go for simper strategies.
After a week with the Nexus 5, it is clear to me that the hardware is solid, the software is compelling, and while everything is not perfect it is possible to achieve more with some updates.
Current wireless data transmission techniques are coming up against fundamental physical limits. We explain why, and show how the upcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard fits into the overall picture.
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.
Cybercrime is now allegedly a bigger problem in the UK than street crime, but hackers may not be the biggest problem.
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.
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.
Every year Orange comes up with some sort of wheeze for music festival season. This year it is Power Wellies.