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Project Kenko 01 2TBW Estimated Wear Leveling Count 0 Point
We give an update to our SSD write endurance testing using two Samsung 750 EVO 120GB SSDs. We are already seeing the impacts of the different fill ratios
VMware On AWS
VMware and AWS unveiled a new public cloud partnership where AWS infrastructure can be used to run VMware workloads and managed using VMware tools
Windows Server 2016 Tagline
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 hits a major milestone with general availability which is great news for Microsoft shops given its awesome set of new features
Dell PowerEdge R930 Front in Rack
We race two quad Intel Xeon E7 V3/ V4 servers from Dell and Supermicro to see how much downtime a single reboot can cause. Results will shock you
Supermicro X10SDV With Cooljag BUF A
Replacing the heatsink on embedded solutions like the Supermicro X10SDV series of Xeon D motherboards is risky but yields significant cooling improvements
VMware Docker Windows Server Citrix AWS 02 Oct 2013 To 02 Oct 2016
Trends are clear, although they have huge followings, VMware and Windows Server are in decline while AWS and Docker are growing rapidly in popularity
Buffalo LS421DE
Our review of the Buffalo LS421DE 2-bay NAS solution providing basic NAS functionality at an entry-level price point. Great for an inexpensive network NAS
Intel Stratix 10 SoC
Intel is now shipping an ARM SoC in the (Altera) Intel Stratix 10 FPGA that provides 10 TFLOPS of single precision compute
Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2E4R with 13 SFF SSDs
We are now seeing NVMe pricing fall below that of SATA pricing in the enterprise space. We expect this trend to continue in the next few quarters
Intel Xeon D Broadwell DE Package Over A LGA 3647 Socket
We show how much bigger the new Intel LGA3647 socket is compared to Broadwell series sockets. There is a new twist: a lack of latches on the socket.