Not familiar with Kontron? You're not alone. Until recently, it's main business was embedded boards and integrated computing platforms. Now the hardware vendor has added rackmount computers and enclosures to its lineup.
The company will work with Intel to bring trust verification – at the hardware root – to virtual environments.
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hardware, virtualization, Intel ESAA
The first beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers enhancements, but may require a significant hardware refresh.
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Windows Server 2008, hardware, server
Analysts are predicting grim IT spending picture with longer life spans for server
hardware, postponed refreshes and a surge in leasing highly likely.
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server hardware, spending, hardware
Smaller organizations may be able to reap most benefits of hardware-based load balancers by using virtual load balancers instead.
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hardware, load balancer, traffic, server, downtime
As x86 servers increasingly dominate the landscape, is there room for RISC? Absolutely, says one prominent analyst.
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RISC, x86, hardware, x86 servers, Unix
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.
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hardware, Xeon 5600, Fujitsu, Xeon, cloud computing
The solution provides visibility, resiliency and energy optimization.
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hardware, cooling, energy management, optimization, data center management
Desktop virtualization technologies are becoming more common in the enterprise, but is this a viable technology?
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hardware, desktop virtualization, data center, virtualization technologies, Enterprise
How to embrace virtualization without busting the budget.
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Enterprise, hardware, cloud computing, server consolidation
Industry measurements for server operating systems are based what OS people buy bundled with hardware, not what is being used.
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Linux, operating system, Microsoft, server, hardware
With virtual servers on almost every enterprise's road map, backup-related issues are increasingly on the radar.
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Storage, storage virtualization, virtualization, hardware
The new NAS server offers enterprise-class features.
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storage server, NAS, hardware, rackmount
Exchange 2010 hardware requirements vary on the size of the environment, but it still requires significant resources, including a large amount of RAM and disk space.
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Exchange, hardware, Harddrive, Servers & Services
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?
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Dell, server snapshot, hardware, Enterprise
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.
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solar power, green IT, hardware, data center, green
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.
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hardware, virtualization, defrag, defragmentation
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.
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penguin, server snapshot, hardware
NEC's new server addition delivers constant uptime and improved disaster recovery for less than $20,000.
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fault-tolerant, NEC, hardware
Server Snapshot: Stratus' fault-tolerant servers are designed to fill a clearly defined niche. Its positioning as the "availability company" has set it apart from the OEM Rat Pack and resulted in steady growth.
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fault-tolerant, stratus, high availability, ftserver, hardware
IDC and Gartner report a second quarter that was beyond dismal for server sales. Have we hit the bottom yet, and is there any light in this long, dark tunnel?
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hardware, server shipment stats, IDC, Gartner
Cover Your Assets: Do you really need all those servers? Could you do just as well with half of them, or as few as a third?
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data center, virtualization, hardware, frugality, consolidation
Building a data center from scratch doesn't just mean getting the latest in gear. It also brings with it the latest power, cooling and data center design. Here's what one company did.
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data center, power management, hardware, power and cooling
Hard-Core Hardware: It isn't often a data center gets to install the latest in servers, blades, storage and networking gear from Day One. Yet the Emerson data center in St. Louis, Missouri had just that opportunity.
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hardware, Sun Microsystems, data center, Dell
Server Snapshot: In the past year, Lenovo launched its second generation of ThinkServers, equipped with more memory and storage capacity, the latest Intel processors, and virtualization capabilities. Yet the company remains in the "other" category in the various server measurement surveys.
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server, hardware, Lenovo, servers, server management
Cover Your Assets: When you convert from a physical to a virtual infrastructure, is the money you save real or virtual?
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hardware, virtual machine, VMware, virtualization, frugality
Repurposing old computers instead of buying new machines can make sound financial sense, especially when trading conditions are tough and the economy is in a bad way.
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yellow dog linux, Mac OS X, hardware, OS
