by Orla Powr | Jun 23, 2022 | IT Hardware, Ramblings, Server Talk, Storage
Whether you’re looking to improve your disk I/O performance or provide yourself with disk redundancy, RAID cards are an easy way to make this work. Hardware RAID and software RAID are both options and depending on your use case, one may be better than the other. There...
by Orla Powr | Jun 20, 2022 | Graphics Computing, ICC Solutions, Ramblings
AMD is launching the Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 processors later in the year and it’s heating up the workstation market. We saw the battle for processor dominance with the last edition of Ryzen 5000 series processors vs Intel Rocket Lake and now the main manufacturers are...
by colinc | Oct 24, 2012 | Ramblings
Today ZDnet ran an interesting piece on five technology themes that have been virtually absent from the 2012 Presidential Election. The five themes are: Net neutrality Cyber-security Privacy Future of the Patriot Act IT infrastructure The author goes into detail with...
by colinc | Oct 9, 2012 | IT Hardware, Ramblings
The US House Intelligence Committee announced yesterday that American companies should stay away doing business with Chinese telecommunications hardware companies, in particular Huawei and ZTE (the second and fifth largest manufarturers of telecom hardware in the...
by agleites | Sep 14, 2010 | Ramblings
An article in Computer Reseller News by Kevin McLaughlin describes how Microsoft has been forced to change its software licensing policy because the Russian government has been overzealously prosecuting small organizations for violating piracy laws. In reality, these...
by mnikolic | Sep 13, 2010 | Ramblings
Uptime. It’s all about uptime; ask any sysadmin. Components fail and networks go down. Power goes out. Users download viruses on to systems. Apophis could go to eleven on the Torino impact hazard scale, smack right into Euro Disney, and the call from marketing...
