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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)

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)

Hands on with Windows Server 8 beta

Our reviewer doesn't like the Metro user interface as the default for a server OS, but other than that lauds its new features.

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.

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

Which of today's newest shipping technologies will triumph over the long haul? Here are our best guesses

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

Prevent your systems from being hijacked: A quick guide

The administrative keys to your kingdom are easier to get than you might know. Here's how to protect yourself. Insider (registration required)

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.

Virtualization: What to do when vSphere goes down

Bad things can happen, even to good virtual systems. Here's what to do about it.

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

Top 12 green IT products

A dozen nitty gritty tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data center efficiency and promote green IT practices.

InfoWorld review: Dell R815 server makes heavy virtualization light on the wallet

The Dell PowerEdge R815 and its four 12-core AMD Opteron CPUs want to run many, many virtual machines, at a much lower cost than Intel multicore

The compute stars align

IBM's recent acquisition of Blade Networks is an endorsement of what Cisco has been claiming as it pushes its Unified Computing System: that integrating switching changes the blade server/cloud game.

Blade server: IBM BladeCenter H

Everything about the IBM BladeCenter H just screams IBM, from the mainframe-like aesthetics to the spartan management interface -- even the "H" model name. Severe-looking matte-black chassis notwithstanding, the BladeCenter H matches most of the major features of the Dell and HP blade systems but at a higher price. The BladeCenter also comes in smaller portions: IBM's slightly shorter chassis holds fewer blades than the Dell and HP enclosures.

InfoWorld review: Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX lives large

Intel's new Nehalem-EX CPU for SMP servers brings eight cores, massive memory support, mainframe-like RAS features, and huge performance gains to large-scale workloads

What AMD 12-core Opterons mean to your business

AMD is closing out the month of March with the introduction of a new line of 12-core Opteron 6000 series processors, previously code-named Magny-Cours. The processor architecture not only raises the bar for server CPUs, but also doubles the number of cores in Intel's latest Xeon processors rolled out just a few weeks ago.