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 ...

Intel has been testing how well Linux can handle large databases, a demanding task that requires a server to perform huge numbers of transactions. In laboratory tests, the company found that a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to use Google’s much improved TCP Congestion Control Algorithm on Linux for significant networking speed gains. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships.

A few days ago, we told you about Microsoft’s surprising bid to join the petascale computing age. Windows HPC Server, it seems, was able to hit petaflop speeds on Japan’s largest supercomputer, but ...

An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors beat out an Intel Itanium system in a widely watched server speed test, Big Blue says. A $5.6 million 32-processor IBM p690 was able to ...