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
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
Replacing the heatsink on embedded solutions like the Supermicro X10SDV series of Xeon D motherboards is risky but yields significant cooling improvements
Trends are clear, although they have huge followings, VMware and Windows Server are in decline while AWS and Docker are growing rapidly in popularity
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 is now shipping an ARM SoC in the (Altera) Intel Stratix 10 FPGA that provides 10 TFLOPS of single precision compute
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
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.
The Proxmox VE 4.3 release has some minor improvements to the GUI and underpinnings. We do like the new SSD SMART wear out monitoring feature for major SSD manufacturers
We are doing our first SSD endurance experiment with two Samsung 750 EVO 120GB SSDs. These are modern planar TLC NAND SSDs.