Servers

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...

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...

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...

The server market in 2019 is in a state of transition as new workloads and use-cases push vendors and their technology into different directions. It's a transition that is also leading the global server market to new growth, as both enterprises and cloud vendors continue to acquire new hardware. Clearly, the SSD is the dominant medium. The SSD vs. HDD debate has largely been settled;...