Drew Robb

Server management can be a hassle, as most companies accumulate servers from multiple vendors and end up with a scenario along the lines of a dozen Dell

Multicore RISC Far from doom and gloom in the RISC camp, Sun and IBM continue to fly the flag and have development roadmaps for their chips stretching

Rent-to-Own As not every enterprise will opt for a pay-as-you-go model, some vendors are choosing alternate paths. Unisys, for example, rents CPUs for a

Why buy a CPU when you can rent one? Plenty of enterprise customers, it seems, are finding value in that logic. And many vendors, including Sun, HP, IBM,

Within a year, however, SQL Server again bottlenecked. Benelogic once again looked at upgrading its Dell processors. Because of their age, it was

Beating the Heat While advances in server room cooling are essential, manufacturers are also paying close attention to heat dissipation methods to reduce

Outside the Box The idea of "thinking outside the box" has been hyped in the past decade to the point of becoming a cliche. Yet, it is certainly smart to

Intel vs. AMD How does the Opteron compare to the Intel Xeon? It appears that, for now, the Opteron has the edge. "Opteron is better in I/O intensive

What a difference two years can make. AMD chips were once firmly positioned as an inexpensive Intel desktop alternative and not ordinarily deployed in an

The funny thing about server migrations is that no vendor ever claims to lose customers from its platforms, yet at the same time, each steadily gains

Dual Core Dueling Several analysts predict that the introduction of multicore processors will shake up the market. Enck expects this to lead to a new

Pay Attention to Cost Costs can vary significantly depending on the approach used. The best processes don't come cheap, and may not be necessary.