Cloudy Server Growth
Infoworld recently posted an interesting article (The numbers don't lie -- cloud computing boosts server sales) about how server market revenues have increased by around 11 percent in the second…
Windows Home Server to the Rescue
I have now been running WHS since Dec 2007 on a small self-built VIA based ITX system, chosen because it was small and ran on much lower power and generated…
Intel Patsburg and Software RAID
I just got done reading the “Intel eats crow on software RAID” writeup from the The UK Register. On one side I’m really happy to see that server based software…
VMware ESXi at Home
What started out as a simple experiment to help me learn more about VMware ESX has now turned into a full blown experiment running my current Windows Home Server setup, along…
PCIe Flash versus SATA or SAS Based SSD
The impressive results being presented by the new PCIe based server or workstation add-in card flash memory products hitting the market from the likes of FusionIO and others are certainly…
Kingston SSDnow VSeries and RAID
I've been watching the price of SSDs fall for a little while now and was intrigued by the sub $100 pricing being offered by Kingston and their MLC based 30G…
Flash Memory Summit 2010
The Flash Memory Summit was well attended this year with attendance up over 50%. A total of around 2000 people showed up versus the planned 1200 according to the show…
Hardware RAID Adapters Making A Comeback?
We are constantly reading about how the number of cores being offered by Intel and AMD will eventually make hardware acceleration devices in a server mostly obsolete. But hang on,…