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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Servers, the brawny computers that power network services, have changed radically since 1992. But since then, one thing that hasn't kept pace is the speed test most widely used to measure server ...

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 ...

Using Intel's processors, Oracle's database and a whopping 1 terabyte of memory, Hewlett-Packard has become the first company to build a server that exceeds one million transactions per minute on a ...

I need to test the speed of various links to various different servers across various different links.<P>The perfect utility I'm look for would work something like this.<P>An app you can run on a 2 ...

IBM's new top-end Power5-based Unix server has a commanding lead in a performance test of servers running a large database. A $16.7 million configuration of the company's eServer p5-595 performed 3.21 ...

IBM's top-end Unix server has moved ahead of its Hewlett-Packard competition in a widely watched server speed test - but HP expects to reclaim its position by the end of March. By doubling the memory ...