Hardware

Hard drive failures are a fact of life: That's why there are RAID arrays, backup systems and an entire infrastructure designed to prevent data loss and minimize the impact to an organization when drives stop working. Too hot makes for better reliability than too cold, brand new disks should be kept away from disks already in production and three other tips that may surprise you. But...

Those looking for a beefy blade that includes vast amounts of compute, memory and storage need look no further. It can handle most any demanding data center workload, and it's fully expandable in case you need to bulk it up still more. Most significant, the PowerEdge MX840c is known for its ease of use, so enterprises that may need to stretch their IT staff further...