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What Is a Server and What Do Servers Do?

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...

How to Use a Physical Hard Drive with a VirtualBox VM

This guide will show you how to use a physical hard drive with a VirtualBox virtual machine, plus pros and cons of that approach.

How to Enable Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions for Windows 11

Learn how to enable Remote Desktop Sessions for multiple users on Windows 11 now.

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....

Best Microsegmentation software

Microsegmentation is a network security solution that isolates workloads and governs each one separately using policy-driven, application-level protection. These software solutions use network virtualization...

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

7 Best Rack Servers of 2023

Looking for the best rack servers in 2023? Check out our expert list of the top 7 rack servers with cutting-edge features and unbeatable performance.

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%...

Virtualization

6 Best Virtual Machine (VM) Backup Software for 2023

Discover the 7 best virtual machine (VM) backup software of 2023 and ensure your data is protected and recoverable from any unwanted situation

What Is a Virtual Machine? Guide to How Virtual Machines Work

Virtual machines enable users to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer. Here’s how they work, the pros and cons, and how they can benefit your business.

NIC Teaming: What It Is and How to Do It

NIC teaming allows you to combine multiple physical network adaptors into a single virtual interface card on Windows Server OSs. Here’s how to set it up on your own network.

Proxmox vs. VMware: Virtualization Platform Comparison

Compare Proxmox and VMware virtualization platforms. Discover the differences in features, performance, and cost to choose the best solution for your business.

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...

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...

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...

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

6 Best Virtual Machine (VM) Backup Software for 2023

Discover the 7 best virtual machine (VM) backup software of 2023 and ensure your data is protected and recoverable from any unwanted situation

How to Add Users and Aliases in Postfix

Postfix is a great mailer, but if you’re new to administering Postfix, finding your way around can be difficult. For example, just finding information...

Everything You Need to Know About Windows Administrative Tools and How to Use Them

Windows Admin Tools are a suite of system management and monitoring tools for Windows computers and servers. Here’s a full list of Windows Admin Tools and how to use them.

When to Use NoSQL Databases: NoSQL vs. SQL

Discover the ideal use cases for NoSQL and SQL databases, their key differences, and when to use NoSQL's scalability and flexibility versus SQL’s structured dependability.

What Is Edge Caching? Definition, How It Works, and Use Cases

Edge caching enables websites to deliver content faster to their users. Here’s how it works, its benefits for delivering fast and efficient content, and potential drawbacks it could face.

Reviews

Proxmox vs. VMware: Virtualization Platform Comparison

Compare Proxmox and VMware virtualization platforms. Discover the differences in features, performance, and cost to choose the best solution for your business.

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...