Business Computing
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Microsoft BPOS: Managing The Cloud
July 8, 2009 – 2:51 PM
Managing Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite is easier than you might think, in part because all of the heavy lifting is performed at ... Read more
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Microsoft’s BPOS: Cloud Computing’s Silver Lining?
June 1, 2009 – 5:50 PM
Can Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) reignite our hope-strewn love affair with cloud computing? With familiar, ... Read more
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Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User
May 21, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Are you a die-hard Windows user, sworn to shun all things Apple, yet (secretly) intimidated by the pocket-protector stereotype of Linux? Fear ... Read more
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Portable Storage Carried to Excess
March 20, 2009 – 1:00 AM
Do you want a flash SSD drive with additional USB connectivity, a portable dual-drive 2.5” RAID solution, or external flash storage? We looked at ... Read more
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Does Power-Saving Technology Kill SSD Performance?
March 12, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Processor speed matters. We found that a fast solid state disk drive, such as Intel’s X25-E, can be greatly impaired by a system running with all ... Read more
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Hacking The HP EX470/475 MediaSmart Servers
March 11, 2009 – 2:00 AM
HP's MediaSmart Servers are basically low-power PCs running Windows Home Server software from a corner of your house. Ed Tittel takes his apart ... Read more
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Supermicro 5046A-XB: X58 Workstation Barebones
March 6, 2009 – 2:00 AM
We’ve already established that Intel’s Core i7 is the way to go for enthusiasts looking for lots of A/V encoding muscle. Supermicro takes ... Read more
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Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking
March 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Do you think that flash SSDs will take over the enterprise HDD segment soon? Not so fast! We looked at how hard drive I/O performance can be ... Read more
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AMD FirePro V8700: High-End Workstation Graphics
March 4, 2009 – 2:00 AM
AMD's recently-released FirePro V8700 centers on the same RV770 GPU as the Radeon HD 4870. We test this new workstation card against its desktop ... Read more
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Intel’s X25-E SSD Walks All Over The Competition
February 27, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Intel's new X25-E professional flash SSD is a rocket when it comes to fast I/O performance. Is Intel now the source of the best server drive? We ... Read more
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Can The Flash-Based ioDrive Redefine Storage Performance?
February 26, 2009 – 2:00 AM
The ioDrive represents flash memory storage connected to its host system via PCI Express. The product offers revolutionary performance, but does ... Read more
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ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Netbook - A Home and Office Powerhouse?
February 25, 2009 – 1:10 PM
Vendors of small, light and allegedly underpowered netbooks promote them as browsing tools, best suited for web browsing and email.They’re only ... Read more
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Promise NS4300N: NAS For Small Offices
February 7, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Promise is known for its RAID controllers, but how the company will fare long-term on the NAS market remains to be seen. We took a closer look at ... Read more
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Intel’s 24-Core, 14-Drive Modular Server Reviewed
January 30, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Intel's MFSYS25 modular server promises small- and medium-sized businesses high reliability, resource optimization, and multi-core computing ... Read more
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Highpoint Takes On Adaptec's SAS Controller
December 19, 2008 – 7:00 AM
Professional hardware can be expensive, but are cost effective business products really an alternative? We compared Highpoint’s new RocketRAID ... Read more
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SAS Storage: High-Performance Hard Drives
August 26, 2008 – 2:30 AM
While people keep looking at flash SSDs, a lot has been going on in the hard drive space as well. The new enterprise drives by Hitachi and ... Read more
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Iomega And Quantum Tackle Backup
August 1, 2008 – 4:10 AM
Are you in danger of catastrophic data loss? We look at feature-rich hard disk backup solutions aimed at small businesses from Iomega and Quantum. Read more
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Super-Cooled Quantum Computing Is Coming
July 24, 2008 – 3:40 AM
It’s very small, very cold and very hard to program; D-Wave says it’s the first working quantum computer and it recognizes images.Read more
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SIPEW 2008: All About Benchmarking
July 23, 2008 – 2:40 AM
We looked behind the curtain of SPEC, the largest benchmarking organization, and visited its 2008 Performance Workshop in Darmstadt, Germany, ... Read more
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Will SSDs Take Over The Enterprise?
July 17, 2008 – 11:00 PM
What can flash SSDs do for high-end enterprise storage? To find out, we compared eight state-of-the-art Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives with eight ... Read more
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SMB RAID for $49: Ciprico VST Pro
July 16, 2008 – 6:00 AM
Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers ... Read more
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Nvidia's CUDA: The End of the CPU?
June 18, 2008 – 9:40 AM
CUDA software enables GPUs to do tasks normally reserved for CPUs. We look at how it works and its real and potential performance advantages.Read more
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HP Puts 1000 Cores in a Single Rack
June 11, 2008 – 1:40 PM
Two servers per blade enable 1000 cores without special cooling, for Web 2.0 apps and Hollywood special effects..Read more
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High Powered Web Servers from HP and IBM
May 23, 2008 – 1:00 PM
Most Web 2.0 services are built on cheap, off-the shelf servers. IBM and HP think standardized servers, water cooling and petabytes of disk are a ... Read more
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External RAID Storage
May 2, 2008 – 1:00 AM
iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.Read more
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