Servers

Like any other asset or device, servers depreciate over time and malfunction when you least expect it. The good news: we know why and when to upgrade servers. Most upgrades can be divided into two buckets, upgrading to the newest technology and replacing existing servers for business continuity. Server complications can be anything from performance decay to limited disk space and an ended warranty. Either...

Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) software is software sold wholesale to third-party hardware and software vendors for integration into the vendor’s end product. While often used as IT jargon, OEMs have been a part of our economy since the innovation of interchangeable parts during the Industrial Revolution. When manufacturers can offer their products to other vendors for repurposing, both parties can prioritize their core competencies. By...

Modern organizations track and log data for virtually all business processes, which is why web server log analysis tools are vital for effectively using this information to gain a clear picture of the state of your network. Event logs, security logs, transactions, web server uptime and CDN traffic are just a few of the types of logs you will collect. Why Do I Need a...

Proxmox virtual machines (VM) are highly popular with home server aficionados, whereas VMware sits squarely at the front of the enterprise VM market. Both of these tools offer free and paid versions, but with vastly different features and support at that level. This article compares the use cases, license options, performance, and extra features for Proxmox vs. VMware. Use cases for Proxmox vs. VMware Proxmox and...

Load balancing is a technique that ensures an organization's server does not get overloaded with traffic. With load balancing measures in place, workloads and traffic requests are distributed across server resources to provide higher resilience and availability. In the earliest days of the Internet, it became painfully obvious that a single application on a single server couldn't handle high-traffic situations. Concurrent server requests from large...

Most IT functions depend on the health and infrastructure of servers, making proper server management an essential task for data center administrators. Server management is a complex process, especially with the growth of cloud computing. System administrators must be able to continuously manage physical server hardware, virtual machines and a variety of application and database servers simultaneously.  In this article, we'll cover some of the...

When you look at the X86 virtualization market the two big players are Microsoft and VMware. According to Gartner, the market leader for multiple years running is VMware with a comfortable lead, especially in the enterprise market. Similarly, the desktop virtualization market has two primary leaders in Citrix and VMware, with Citrix holding down the top spot by a slim margin. The interesting twist here...