One question asked frequently on this site is how can low-cost Infiniband host channel adapters (HCA) be used to achieve high data transfer speeds between...
One very important aspect to the ESXi 5 All-in-One systems that have become very popular is getting the memory mix correct. Generally an OpenSolaris...
Today the ASRock Extreme11 appeared on the company's website. This is the same X79 Extreme11 that we previewed on this site months ago. This...
The Samsung 830 256GB SSD is a top pick in this SSD generation given Samsung's reputation for quality. One can find Samsung SSD offerings...
Gigabyte recently released new barebones systems for the new Intel Xeon E5-2400 and Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs. Barebones systems are popular with resellers...
Today Western Digital released a new line of drives, the Western Digital Red series, designed for network attached storage (NAS) applications. In the press...
The OCZ Vertex 4 line, including the Vertex 4 256GB recently received another firmware update. Keen readers will remember performance was increased significantly with...
Recently Microsoft announced that Windows Home Server will not see another version and is effectively discontinued. I actually think this makes a lot of...
A often asked question is whether one should use an Amazon EC2 t1.micro instance or a VMWare ESXi 5.0 server at home. For this...
Recently we had a user question with someone trying to test a Linux virtual machine when they received a VMware ESXi 5.0 error stack with...