VMmark Scores Investigated: should VMmark be part of your hardware decisions?

VMmark is supposedly the most important industry standard benchmark today. We investigate the confusing number of different Xeon 5570 VMmark scores and try to understand how relevant VMmark is...

The million dollar question: how do you upgrade your datacenter

The Best Server CPUs part 2: the Intel "Nehalem" Xeon X5570

Better hardware virtualization, a vastly improved server platform, and eight logical cores per CPU: it's no secret that the Xeon "Nehalem" X5570 is the Formula One car among the...

SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks

We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to...

Istanbul versus Nehalem, some extra notes

How AMD's Istanbul might close the gap with Nehalem EP

AMD fighting back with hexacore Istanbul and "Nehalem will be small percentage"

Will Nehalem conquer the server world by storm?

Nehalem Xeon EP update: too good but true

The Best Server CPUs Compared, Part 1

This article is different from the previous ones, as we have changed the methodology we use to evaluate a server CPU. Read on, and find out why we feel...

Intel Xeon 5570: Smashing SAP records (scoop!)

LINPACK: Nehalem vs Shanghai part 2

LINPACK: Intel's Nehalem versus AMD Shanghai

MySQL and the power of Intel SSDs

The fun side of virtualization: virtualized gaming and hyper-V benchmarking

Intel Xeon 7460: Six Cores to Bulldoze Opteron

Despite the huge die size and 1.9 billion (!) transistors, the six-core Xeon 74xx is a wallflower, for both the public as Intel's marketing. If you've invested in a...

IT portal update: Nehalem, women and heavy benchmarking

Intel Xeon E-stepping: 200 MHz more or 30W less

What Nehalem is really about

The secrets of Virtual benchmarketing