Monthly Archives: November 2011

VMWare High Availability Read more »

VMWare High Availability

VMWare recently put out an excellent guide on High Availability considerations in a VMWare environment.  HA has always been one of those subjects where its super easy to make a mistake.  Administrators often can’t see the whole network holistically, so they leave single points of…


Bulldozer Chip Reviews for Servers: Can AMD Step Up Its Game? Read more »

Bulldozer Chip Reviews for Servers: Can AMD Step Up Its Game?

The Bulldozer reviews for AMD’s new flagship CPU for desktops were underwhelming at best.  Even with eight cores the chip struggled against the mere four cores of Intel’s bruteforce monsters.  But what if the chips aren’t really tuned for desktop workloads?  What if they’re better…


Open Compute Servers Tested Read more »

Open Compute Servers Tested

Many of you probably know that Facebook launched the Open Compute project.  They custom designed their own data center and servers to take advantage of their very particular use case.    After that, they did something amazing and open sourced the results.  It’s an ambitious project,…


Kal-El Chip Released - Android Tablets Rejoice Read more »

Kal-El Chip Released – Android Tablets Rejoice

Anandtech is reporting that Nvidia has launched their long awaited quad (actually give) core system on a chip, the Kal-El (after Superman’s real name), that will be powering the next generation of Android tablets.  If you aren’t into the Apple “walled garden” approach to their…