By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published May 06, 2010
IBM has taken to the road with the message that Intel's Nehalem EX processors coupled with Big Blue's system engineering talents has resulted in a platform well-suited for virtualization, consolidation and mission-critical applications. Does the server hardware live up to the praise?
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published April 15, 2010
Analysts are predicting grim IT spending picture with longer life spans for server
hardware, postponed refreshes and a surge in leasing highly likely.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published April 01, 2010
Hard-Core Hardware: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap
tall buildings in a single bound" -- will Nehalem EX be the cornerstone in x86
servers that are really as good as Intel claims?
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 25, 2010
New servers designed for cloud computing environments and an expanding focus on services show Dell is following the same model as IBM and HP.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 18, 2010
As x86 servers increasingly dominate the landscape, is there room for RISC? Absolutely, says one prominent analyst.
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 18, 2010
A new series of Cisco's x86 servers said to provide double-digit performance gains will be formally announced in the coming weeks.
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 18, 2010
Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 17, 2010
The classic brand is reborn as a super-dense, all-in-one x86 server with an integrated SAN, while larger siblings will sport more than 1,000 cores for virtualized environments.
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 16, 2010
Dell wants to help admins spend less time keeping x86 servers running. A new crop of Westmere-processor-based, self-healing machines are designed to be deployed and ignored.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published March 04, 2010
As UNIX- and RISC-based servers lose ground to x86, should you consider making the switch? Is it the beginning of the end for UNIX servers?
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published February 25, 2010
After a year of spiraling toward the ground, server sales may be pulling out of the dive, with x86 servers leading the pack. Revenue continued to fall, yet it's still progress.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published February 19, 2010
With Sun now part of Oracle, how much has its server line up changed? Not at
all -- at least not yet. We look down the road to evaluate the changes likely to have an impact on server room management decisions.
By ServerWatch Staff
| Hardware Articles Article Published February 18, 2010
With virtual servers on almost every enterprise's road map, backup-related issues are increasingly on the radar.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published February 04, 2010
Sure, Intel is inside the box, but did you know sometimes Intel is the box? Here are five servers that the company best known for its chips sells to OEMs and other resellers. Is one of these right for you?
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published January 22, 2010
Two new single-socket servers from Fujitsu are aimed at two very different markets.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published January 08, 2010
Cisco entered the server market in 2009 with its Unified Computing System, a series of blades and a chassis designed to simplify deployment, particularly for virtualized environments. See how its offerings compare to those of the more established players.
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published December 31, 2009
Many lessons in managing computer centers the size of a football field were learned this year. How much of that will stick in 2010?
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published December 18, 2009
Server Snapshot: Dell has pushed Sun out of the No. 3 server spot. Given the OEM's new array of products, will it be long before Dell's ascendancy places it at IBM's and HP's backs?
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published December 04, 2009
Hard-Core Hardware: Cisco Unified Computing System and HP BladeSystem currently lead in the all-in-one box market, but they may soon face stiff competition from upstart Liquid Computing.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published November 16, 2009
Like a tenant who refuses to be evicted from an area earmarked for redevelopment, tape is alive and kicking. When it comes to long-term backup retention and archiving, it is holding its own against dedupe — especially among large enterprises.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published November 06, 2009
Hard-Core Hardware: The age of solar power is fast arriving, and it may be keeping the lights on in a data center near you. The former downsides, chiefly cost constraints, no longer apply.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published October 23, 2009
Hard-Core Hardware: Disk fragmentation is a significant problem for many data centers. Virtualization only makes it worse. Find out what steps you can take to mitigate it.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published October 16, 2009
Server Snapshot: Penguin Computing has always, as its name implies, focused on developing best practices for Linux-based systems, software and services, particularly in the HPC space.
By Drew Robb
| Hardware Articles Article Published October 08, 2009
Hard-Core Hardware: Can NEC make the economic case for its new fault-tolerant servers?
By Andy Patrizio
| Hardware Articles Article Published October 06, 2009
Few technologies last 30 years, let alone become more dominant with each passing one, but the x86 architecture has done just that.
