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What Is a Server?
Servers are high-powered computers built to store, process, and manage network data, devices, and systems. Servers are the engines powering organizations by providing network devices and systems with adequate resources. For businesses, servers offer critical scalability, efficiency, and business continuity capabilities.
Whether it's hosting a data-heavy website, setting up a shared drive for a department, or managing...
Guides
Using a Physical Hard Drive with a VirtualBox VM
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Though it's possible to create a virtual hard disk image from the existing contents of a physical drive, you might find it useful to directly mount...
Guides
How to Enable Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions for Windows 10
In this article, we'll look at potential issues and workarounds that will allow you to enable Remote Desktop sessions for multiple users on Windows...
Security
Reviews
Best SQL Injection (SQLi) Detection Tools
SQL injections (SQLi) are an insidious form of attack that can access sensitive or private data. They first were discovered at the end of...
Security
14 Best Server Security Tools for 2023
Server security tools used to be focused on safeguarding physical servers. Each box required login credentials, and administrative privileges were required to change anything....
Networking
Disaster Recovery
The modern organization's heavy dependence on using data to drive their business has made having a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place a necessity....
Hardware
What Is Microservice Architecture?
Improving upon monolithic application features becomes more complicated as the code base increases, which can create a significant barrier to innovation. Microservice architecture is...
Best Enterprise-Grade NAS Solutions
Network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software solutions can ease and enhance the task of managing data for individuals up to enterprise data centers.
NAS appliances...
On-Prem Infrastructure is Here to Stay. But What Workloads Go Where?
Yes, data centers and server rooms are changing. The explosion of cloud infrastructure solutions enabled organizations to adopt large virtual workloads while innovative server...
IBM’s 2nm Breakthrough: Implications for Chip and Server Makers
IBM last month unveiled its proof of concept for the world's first 2-nanometer transistor technology. Initial projections show the breakthrough could lead to 45%...
Server Room Power Consumption: The Battle Between Demand and Efficiency
In a world dominated by internet-enabled technology, data centers are the brains keeping the digital ecosystem afloat. Responsible for processing, storing, and transmitting data,...
Virtualization
Proxmox vs ESXi: Choosing the Best Hypervisor
The use of hypervisors for server virtualization in modern-day computing offers many benefits to IT professionals. Hypervisors make it easy to manage a system’s...
Oracle VM Server Review
Oracle VM Server is a server virtualization and management solution that enterprises use to deploy, manage, and maintain virtual machines (VMs) for both x86...
What Is a Hypervisor Server?
Server virtualization helps enterprises reduce the total cost of ownership and approach their resources more efficiently. Hypervisors are crucial to server virtualization. In this...
VMware NSX Review: Software Features & Price
VMware NSX is a network virtualization and security technology that supports VMware's cloud networking solution. It provides a software-defined networking strategy that spans data...
VMware Fusion vs Parallels Desktop: Compare Desktop Virtualization Tools
VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop are two of the top considerations for desktop virtualization on macOS devices, with multiple editions for small business to...
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
On-Prem Infrastructure is Here to Stay. But What Workloads...
Yes, data centers and server rooms are changing. The explosion of cloud infrastructure solutions enabled organizations to adopt large virtual workloads while innovative server...
Cloud Computing
Top 10 Database as a Service (DBaaS) Solutions
In the cloud era, tasks like managing databases and building applications are more accessible than ever by utilizing database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions.
Available as software as...
Cloud Computing
Using Zero Trust Security to Protect Applications and Databases
Zero trust as a security architecture can and should be applied to databases and applications. Read more to learn how.
Guides
Top Observability Tools for IT Administrators
Gaining insight into the performance of complex systems has always proved a major challenge for IT administrators. Before now, system administrators needed to wait...
What is Synthetic Data?
Today, data is being produced on a massive scale, presenting excellent opportunities for machine learning (ML) initiatives. However, a significant portion of this data...
Best Data Science Courses
Data science knowledge and skills are some of the most valuable credentials for the modern workforce. Companies and individuals can sign up to take...
Agile vs DevOps: What are the main differences?
The current schools of thought surrounding software development have evolved to include far more communication between stakeholders and rapid responses to changes. Whereas the...
What is a Data Lakehouse?
A data lakehouse is the data management paradigm combining data warehouse and data lake capabilities into a unified platform for optimizing structured and unstructured...
Reviews
Proxmox vs ESXi: Choosing the Best Hypervisor
The use of hypervisors for server virtualization in modern-day computing offers many benefits to IT professionals. Hypervisors make it easy to manage a system’s...
Best MySQL GUI Tools
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (commonly known as RDBMS or simply RDB). It is a widely used tool that stores structured...
VMware Fusion vs Parallels Desktop: Compare Desktop Virtualization Tools
VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop are two of the top considerations for desktop virtualization on macOS devices, with multiple editions for small business to...
Best Enterprise-Grade NAS Solutions
Network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software solutions can ease and enhance the task of managing data for individuals up to enterprise data centers.
NAS appliances...
Top 8 IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Providers
It wasn't long ago that any organization wishing to operate computers had to have, at the very least, its own server room — if...
