Apple Finally Issues New Mac Mini, After Much Tech Pro Complaining Nick Kolakowski, October 30, 2018 3 min read For years, tech pros and creative professionals clamored for an update to the Mac mini, long considered the...
A Quick Guide to Denormalizing Databases David Bolton, January 10, 2018 11 min read A relational database stores data in multiple tables. Each table has columns describing the type of information,...
Will Automation Wipe Out Sysadmin and Datacenter Jobs? Nick Kolakowski, October 4, 2017 4 min read Will automation (in conjunction with the cloud) eventually wipe out the majority of sysadmin and datacenter...
SourceForge Interview: Making a Universal Media Server Nick Kolakowski, March 17, 2014 7 min read Over at Slashdot’s sister site SourceForge, the community selected Universal Media Server as its Community Choice...
Google Datacenter No. 1: Ugly, Small, Needed Cables Jiggled Kevin Fogarty, February 6, 2014 4 min read Witnesses call Google's first data cage "ugly" and "unkempt." (This isn't it.) Google may get a lot of credit for...
Security Holes Appear Too Fast To Plug Them All Kevin Fogarty, February 3, 2014 8 min read It's easy to guard one platform, but impossible to guard every brick. Despite increases in security spending and...
AMD Pitches ARM Server SoC as Intel-Killer Kevin Fogarty, January 29, 2014 3 min read AMD laid out its new Seattle server SoC and sample board for OEMs. There have been three big surprises at this...
Microsoft Open-Sources Cloud Server, Management Kevin Fogarty, January 28, 2014 5 min read Microsoft likes a modular, no-cable design for datacenter cloud servers. Microsoft has announced it is joining the...
Lenovo Acquires IBM Server Business Nick Kolakowski, January 23, 2014 6 min read With this deal, Lenovo gains a lot of presence in the datacenter. IBM will sell its lower-end server business to...
IBM to Spend $1.2 Billion on 30 Cloud Datacenters by 2015 Kevin Fogarty, January 17, 2014 5 min read IBM will add 15 datacenters to its cloud in 2014, followed by 15 more in 2015. IBM will spend an additional $1.2...