(10-Mar-10) Phaeton Automotive Group got its start in 1993 with two locations in London, Ontario. Today, Phaeton has grown to have over 350 employees working out of seven sales and service locations in London, Richmond Hill and Thornhill,...

The competition in x86 server virtualization became hotter in 2008 as Citrix and Microsoft made significant bids to dethrone market leader VMware. There are also new entrants in the field from Oracle and Sun. Learn how the vendor landscape has...

Hypervisors are the software that carve a single physical computer into multiple virtual machines. Competition has been heating up in the virtualization space as competitors argue the relative strengths of their hypervisors. This note reviews...

With virtualization becoming a reality in x86-based data centers of all sizes, the ability to manage both the virtualized and physical servers becomes more critical. As the small enterprise tests the waters for different hypervisors, they must...

Recent developments such as remotely accessed, centrally hosted, virtual PCs are breathing new life into thin client as a desktop computing option. While thin clients are still far from displacing traditional "fat" PCs, older approaches to thin...

Mainframe computers, in particular the IBM System z (360/370/390 family), have been a mainstay of enterprise computing for over 40 years. Now "lower-end" computers are truly moving into mainframe territory and System z shipments are fading ?...

Apple continues to update the hardware and software for its Xserve rack-mount server. For Apple Mac-centric businesses that want a robust and recognized basic workgroup server, the Xserve is worth consideration.

As the number of servers grows within an enterprise, the time and effort needed to manage those servers grows even more rapidly. Server management tools provide automated capabilities to ease the pain of day-to-day provisioning, patching, and...

IT staff at many small enterprises continue to manage servers one-on-one. Even if the enterprise has only a few or a few dozen servers, server management tools provide automated capabilities to reduce the time needed for day-to-day provisioning,...

The consolidation of servers within the data center provides well defined savings for the enterprise. By creating and implementing a clearly defined migration strategy for existing servers, the effectiveness and efficiency of any consolidation...

The wide variety of highly capable blade servers from top vendors makes selecting the right blade server more challenging. Balance acquisition, management, support, and energy costs with specific business requirements to select the right blade...

For a small enterprise that has neither the expertise nor budget for proprietary server technologies, mid-range x64-based servers provide the capabilities and pricing for most SME needs. The differentiation between different vendor products can...

The small enterprise data center can be created with a few high-performance mid-range servers, based on multi-core x64-based processors. A few of these servers can offer the performance and functionality for virtually all small and mid-sized...