SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young ...

Using the Traffic Control command you can simulate poorly configured networks to test how well your applications will respond to such an environment. The Traffic Control command (tc) is a tool that ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors has beaten out an Intel Itanium system in a widely watched server speed test, Big Blue announced Tuesday, the opening day of an Intel ...

Desktop Linux should be shiny and fast, server Linux should be big and practical. Today's mix doesn't work -- here's the remedy My post about splitting up Linux distributions along dedicated server ...