Synology RackStation
Synology finally hits the midrange sweet spot in price, performance, and capacity with the 10-drive, rack-mount RS3411RPxs
What your IT pro knows about you
Why worry about hackers half a world away? The biggest threat to your business may lurk within your business’s walls
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Microsoft’s server virtualization platform pairs good performance with extensive management
Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks
Sometimes you have to get a little crazy to find the right solution to technology problems gone absurd
The new MacBook Air
Apple’s spectacularly responsive new MacBook Air is the best Air yet — and might be the best MacBook, period
Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX lives large
The Nehalem-EX doesn’t offer the fastest clock rates, but it offers more cores per CPU than any other Intel processor and can address massive amounts of RAM
Intel’s Westmere struts its stuff
Fast AES encryption, better scalability, and consistent per-core performance make the new six-core Xeon a worthy successor to Nehalem
VMware vSphere 4
The features offered are taking things to the next level, and highlight just how far behind VMware’s competitors really are
Fedora turns 10
To those who grew up with Red Hat Linux, the birth of Fedora was a bit of a surprise
Synology Cube Station breaks the low-end NAS wide open
The size of a paint can, the CS407 speaks almost any file sharing protocol you might think of using
Stratus’ fault-tolerant a RHEL juggernaut
The Stratus ftServer 4400 is big, pricey, standard Linux, and unstoppable, surviving dire hardware failures without a hiccup
VMware Infrastructure 3 update builds on the base
VI3 with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 beefs up server virtualization management with automated patching
Sun workstation takes Intel quad-core to the races
The Sun Ultra 24 packs CPU punch and graphics power into a mean little machine at a lean pricernrn
Virtualizing the desktop
Rising energy costs have companies examining new virtualization territory