Once you've decided to buy a server, your next step is to decide what kind to buy: a tower, rack-mounted or blade server. The size of your organization and the cost of the server will likely factor in ...

Transactions per square foot sounds like a unit more suited to paper-and-pencil accountants than data centers. However, packing servers more densely into racks can increase the processing power that ...

It's not uncommon to find Intel's Atom processors in NAS servers. These low power processors have dominated the 4-bay NAS market for a few years. Over the last year, Atom processors have crept into ...

We found that blade servers reduce but don’t eliminate redundant hardware components requiring electrical power, a pivotal consideration in total cost of ownership (TCO). That said, while IBM’s blade ...

Designed for the office or for transportable rack use, the unit supports the installation of one or two Mac minis into a 1U rack space. The RackMac mini manages airflow and provides a front-panel ...

Hard drives and SSDs come in pretty standard shapes at this point: there are 3.5-inch drives for desktops, 2.5-inch ones for laptops, and the newer M.2 standard that basically looks like a giant stick ...

Any recommendations for a decent 1u rack mount that would have SFP+ capabilities, and potentially a 4 port 1000BaseT NIC? I was thinking I'd pick something up to throw on my rack as my router to run ...

[Paul Brown] wants to take advantage of off-site server colocation services. But the providers within [Paul]’s region typically place a limit of 1A @ 120V on each server. Rather than search out ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Apple Computer on Tuesday unveiled Xserve, its first rack-mountable server. Although the machines are aimed at environments where Macs are plentiful--places like schools and ...