Server Problems Solved

This is where we take enigmatic IT subjects and break them down so you can understand, regardless of your level of nerd.

The Green Grid, a leader in energy efficiency standards for data centers, has recently updated their PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) metric that they came out with in 2007 and have outlined the new benchmarks in a white paper titled, “Recommendations for Measuring and Reporting Overall Data Center Efficiency“.
PUE is defined by the total data center energy [...]

Wow, it’s been so long since this blog was updated that I can barely clear the cobwebs as I type this post. Just joking, of course.
While this blog was operational, it was an emerging resource for IT people (and also those not so knowledgeable in electronics) to learn more about computers, have their questions answered, and their server [...]

Malfunctioning servers are more than a nuisance — they often result in upset customers, employees, and/or lost money. One of the most critical jobs of IT is to ensure that the servers are functioning properly and wonderfully and will continue to do so. IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) seeks to become the new [...]

Inside the New Platform
In the previous article, we explored just how fast the i7 is and realized that it will not be a cheap upgrade. Today, we will see what Supermicro has brought to the table with its motherboard line-up for the i7.
To this day, there is only one chipset that supports the Core i7 [...]

…In the competition between Intel and AMD, the two competing chip giants, Intel has been in the lead since 2001 when it created the Core 2 Duo platform. Today, I’d like to introduce you to Intel’s new platform, the Intel Core i7 on the X58 chipset, and discuss what exactly is different, why it’s the fastest commercial processor to date, and whether it’s worth the upgrade or not…

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