Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you'll be using it for. Read ...

If you only have 6 machines do you need the huge budget of ESX and a SAN? A decent dual quad-core Xeon, 8-16GB of RAM, and enough SAS drives to get the space you need will likely be enough. You can ...

So we are looking at replacing our IBM DS4300 FC SAN. We currently have one production ESX 3.5 standard server and one development ESX 3.5 standard server both connected to the DS4300 for storage with ...

Every now and then I like to point out some of the free management tools that make our lives as administrators easier. If you’re looking for an easy way to move files between your Windows desktop or ...