A new storage networking products firm funded by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Tako Ventures has announced its entry into the already fiercely competitive enterprise storage hardware market. Pillar Data Systems' Axiom line can act as network-attached storage as well as conventional SAN storage for different network hosts. Read more
Santa Cruz (CA) – Have you ever thought how vulnerable your data may be through the simple fact that you may be storing your entire digital life on a single hard drive? On single drive can hold tens of thousands of pictures, thousands of music files, vid Read more
Developed to increase Microsoft's credibility in the high-performance computing (HPC) space and to take advantage of the rapidly growing x86-based server market, Microsoft today released its first server software enabling cluster computing to manufacturing. Read more
A team of researchers has been able to do the math, tweaking the computer design phase of creating a CPU. While no other aspects of manufacturing change, the increase is delivering at least a 5% boost. Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more