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 ...

A NAS is useful, but you just don't need one.

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 ...

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 ...

Knowing how and when to replace data center hardware keeps business operations optimized. Read tips on how to establish an appropriate data center refresh cycle. One of the oddities of working in ...

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 ...

The idea of early computer users having an entire processor to themselves was just a fantasy. The first computer networks had all the processing power in a central mainframe, or server, to which ...