Component upgrade vs. replacement: What would you do?

Westminster College needed to move from 32GB of RAM to 48GB of RAM in each of its three vSphere hosts. Scott Lowe runs through their upgrade options, explains why he chose their solution.

Oracle and HP make a deal for Solaris on ProLiants

Dell does deal for PowerEdges, too The inscrutable plan of Oracle for Solaris 10 on x64 servers became more... scrutable this morning. The company announced that Dell and Hewlett-Packard would be certifying and reselling Oracle's Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems, as well as its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor on their respective PowerEdge and ProLiant servers.

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Pros and cons of mini blades vs. full blades

There are a number of advantages to selecting blades for the server platform in the data center. Yet, there are many obstacles to fully realizing the benefits of this form factor. IT pro Rick Vanover explains the mini blade alternative.

IBM's Next-Gen 'System of Systems' Mainframe

For most systems vendors, the launch of a next-generation server platform qualifies as a pretty big deal. After all, such occasions provide vendors multiple opportunities to strut their visionary stuff, roll out a host of satisfied customers, and highlight their current/future strategies. However, some next-gen platforms are -- literally and figuratively -- bigger than others.

More mainframe madness

I'm often a little apologetic over my liking for the mainframe. After all, I used to be told (mostly by people who knew nothing about mainframes), it was only as powerful as an Intel 486 desktop, which made it appalling value for money.