What Nehalem is really about

The secrets of Virtual benchmarketing

Common Virtualization myths spread by the gullible press

The very first independent Nested Paging Virtualization tests

Sixteen Cores, Four Sockets

The quad-socket market is extremely interesting and exciting as AMD's quad-core Opteron and Intel's quad-core Xeon MP are well matched. We show you our first sixteen core benchmarks.

Sun Fire X4450: Challenging the HP and IBM bastion

Sun challenges market leaders IBM and HP by claiming that the Sun Fire X4450 can deliver the performance and the functionality of their best 16-core 4U servers in a...

AMD's K10: a "dead" product or not?

IBM: Sun Fire x4450 has the best performance per Watt

AMD back in the quad socket race

Server CPU news, march 2008

The revenge of AMD Barcelona's TLB?

Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts and Bolts

If you like to understand how binary translation, paravirtualization, and hardware virtualization work, this article is for you. We delve deep into the heart of VMware ESX, Intel VT-x...

The IT view of CeBIT 2008

We look at the newest AMD and Intel servers and some of the newer storage devices presented at the CeBIT 2008 show.

10 Gbit Ethernet, the super I/O pipe for virtual servers? (WMWorld 2008)

VMWorld 2008 live: in depth Disk I/O monitoring

VMWorld 2008 live: VMWare vService demonstrated

A new home for the professionals: the Anandtech IT portal

AMD's 3rd generation Opteron versus Intel's 45nm Xeon: a closer look

The new Xeon 45nm (or Xeon 54xx series) arrived in the lab weeks ago, so a server CPU benchmark update is overdue. However, there is another reason we decided...

Affordable storage for the SME, part one

This is the first article of series of articles in which we explore the world of Storage Area Networks (SANs) in search of affordable storage solutions for SMEs. We...

Intel IDF 2007: Datacenter Technology

IDF 2007 had some interesting IT news related to very dense Tigerton servers and new ways of saving power in the datacenter.