More Servers In Depth

Dell simplifies the blade server

Dell's PowerEdge C6220 squeezes four two-socket servers into 2RU, delivering blade server density at a rack-mount price. Insider (registration required)

AOL Unplugs 10,000 Servers, Saves $5 Million

AOL decommissioned nearly 10,000 servers and saved itself $5 million along the way to winning an Uptime Institute contest designed to show the high cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment.

How to wrangle your virtual machines

While vendors continue to work toward a single console, or "single pane of glass" tools, customers must choose from products that manage only parts of their environments or focus on specific problems such as the sprawl of unused virtual machines, security or backup.

Blade servers: Big power for small businesses

Many small businesses with larger server needs are turning to blade servers to pack big power into a small space. But what exactly is a blade server, and how do you know if it's right for your small business?

New Dell PowerEdge: More power, deeper management

First look: 12-gen, 2U Dell PowerEdge R720xd pairs hardware heft with first-rate remote management tools

Shark Tank: Why me?

Pilot fish is tapped to help a team that has been unable to fix a server that's been down for two weeks. He arrives on the scene and promptly spots the problem... Insider (registration required)

Google Leads Green IT Ranking

Google's motto of "Do No Evil" apparently extends to its environmental policies, as the company was recently ranked first on Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard for overall green practices. Google grabbed the top spot for the first time, ranking high due to recent disclosure of its own carbon footprint as well as its investment in utility projects such as a large-scale solar project taking place near Sacramento. Other reasons it made the top of the list? The RechargeIT.org project which was designed by Google to demonstrate the technology used in plug-in electric vehicles and to accelerate their adoption, as well as other actions such as increasing its renewable energy purchasing and creating a subsidiary called Google Engery.

Flaw in web app frameworks pushes Microsoft to patch ASP.net promptly

Many web app frameworks are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack targeting the way they handle hash tables, researchers revealed Wednesday, prompting Microsoft to announce an "out-of-band" patch for its ASP.NET platform just hours later.

First look: Dell Opteron server cranks up the cores with AMD 'Interlagos'

New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it

After Jobs: The Enterprise?

CEO Tim Cook should seriously try to get Apple into the enterprise market.

Devops gets developers and admins on the same page

Agile and other modern development methods mean programmers need to move fast -- but ops often won't let them

Check Point's new security blades cut both ways

If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise.

Testing SSDs with SNIA's specification

Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, and Tom Coughlin, founder of Coughlin Associates teamed with Calypso to compile a study on SSD performance that involved 18 different drives. No two drives had the same performance.

8 radical ways to cut data center power costs

One or more of these wild-eyed approaches could save you a lot of money -- and not cost you much

Games on company gear? Depends who you ask

Only about a third of more than a thousand respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players.

Dell Opteron server packs plenty of punch

Dual-processor Dell PowerEdge R715 scores big on performance, features, and bang for the buck

Opinion: What Apple's Xserve abandonment really means

Although Apple will lack the firepower to adequately serve large enterprises, Ryan Faas suggests that the decision to kill off the Xserve continues the company's real focus on small business.

Q&A: Stratus CEO looks to bring high availability to the masses

Stratus Technologies has earned high marks for delivering fault-tolerant computing, but with the rollout of Stratus Avance CEO David Laurello is pouncing on an opportunity to expand beyond the company's existing market niche.

Maximizing server uptime: Best practices

Keeping servers humming is both a science and a management art, practitioners say. Here are some approaches that work, from careful planning to routine maintenance and using automation tools.

The Scary Side of Virtualization

As companies turn more of their critical applications over to virtual servers, some IT managers are starting to worry about the security risks of virtualization.