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Nuts and bolts info you need to choose and install a server for your business.
Servers In Small And Midsize Businesses
This exclusive downloadable research report examines how satisfied small and midsize businesses are with their current server infrastructure and how green IT and virtualization are changing server investments and costs. [Free registration required] Download it now!
Server TCO: The Price Tag Is Just The Beginning
The three-year cost of a server may be 10 times the hardware purchase price. Depending on how much time and effort you expend keeping it operational, the lowest price server may not be the least expensive. Here's how to figure out your total cost of ownership.
Server Shopping Made Easy
When it's time to buy a server, don't be overwhelmed by the staggering number of purchase options. The weak economy, combined with the glut of sales channels, provide plenty of bargains and purchase options to suit any business budget.
More Server Power For Lower Prices
Server prices will be flat or down over the next year, but performance is expected to go up with increased power efficiency to boot. From dual cores to quad cores and beyond, here's what to look for on the server horizon.
36 Server Terms You Need To Know
Take control of your business servers by understanding the terminology and jargon IT pros use. By mastering the 36 terms in this how-to guide, you'll talk like a pro and enhance your knowledge of your business server infrastructure.
8 Ways To Reduce Server Power Consumption
Servers gorge on watts and create enough heat to burn your budget. By following the 8 steps in this how-to guide you'll learn strategies to help reduce power drain and boost your bottom line.
12 Ways To Secure Your Servers
Servers store your most important business data, deliver your e-mail, and run your Web site, but keeping them from harm's way is a full time job. The 12 tips and tricks in this how-to guide will help keep your data secure.
How To Assess Your Server Needs
Business plans should drive your server shopping, not bits or bytes. In this how-to guide, learn about user needs, applications types, and other considerations vital to server-capacity planning.
Your Server Questions, Answered
This how-to guide provides practical answers to the 12 most important questions about how to buy, configure, support, and get the most from your servers -- whether you're ready for your first or adding your 20th.
Servers Simplified
From form factors, processors, and operating systems to pricing, features, and configuration, in this how-to guide you'll get the basic information you need to assess your needs and then purchase and install a server.
More About Servers...
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- How to Virtualize a Server: Step-by-Step (3 Part Series)
Virtualizing the server running your business will allow you to back up the existing state of your server entirely, upgrade to new server hardware, and move your existing system exactly as it is -- this will keep your business running as smoothly as before you virtualized your server. - Data Center Conservation: Some Practical Tips
Jack Pouchet, the director of energy initiatives at Emerson Network Power, believes companies can reduce 50 percent of their data center power consumption. Is your small or midsize business interested? - 10 Ways to Leverage Information Technology
With the right approach, IT can do more than just maintain your business -- it can enable it to thrive and grow. These 10 tips can help. - How To Consolidate Servers With Virtualization
Using Microsoft's Virtual Server, system builders can create virtual servers make better use of high-power hardware, save customers money, and run multiple operating systems. - Four Reasons Your Servers Belong In a Colocation Facility
Renting space and bandwidth from a colocation facility can be more cost effective and offer greater reliability than storing and provisioning your servers "for free" at your small or midsize business.
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...from TechWeb & Partners
- 8 Tools You Must Have In Your Data Center
- Infrastructure Virtualization
- Windows Server News
- Yes, It's Time To Destroy Your E-Mail Servers. What App Is Next?
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