Antone Gonsalves reports, "Rackable Systems Inc. on Monday said it would offer IBM...BladeCenter servers inside Rackable's data-center-in-a-box product." read more » DiscussBury
Antone Gonsalves writes, "The servers run the Solaris operating system and are built for large-scale applications from Oracle, SAP, and other business software vendors." read more » DiscussBury
While this performance data is funded and posted by VMware it is interesting to see virtual environments nearly matching native environment speed. Check out the SPECWeb results in particular and the testing of multiple Oracle DBs. read more » 2 CommentsBury
Dell increases its market share, Sun Microsystems takes a hit, and overall server sales are looking good due to IT departments replacing x86 servers. read more » DiscussBury
Tom Yager writes a scathing critique of Intel CPU's and high praise for AMD, suggesting that IT needs to start buying forward-looking AMD rather than outdated Intel CPUs with marketing hype. read more » DiscussBury
On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you’d like. Jack Wallen shares a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times. read more » DiscussBury