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HP offers Linux home server

Clive Akass — 2008-04-17T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Half the price of Windowsd model, with some of the features

HP has unveiled a Linux-based home media server at half the price of its Microsoft-based MediaSmart model. The £199 (inc Vat) mv5020 Media Vault Pro, just 14 cm high, ships...

Intel ships two more frugal quad-cores

Clive Akass — 2008-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 25 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Low-voltage Xeon server processors draw just 50 watts

Intel has launched two frugal server quad-cores drawing just 50 watts, or 12.5w per core. The low-voltage 45nm Xeon L5420 and L5410 clock 2.5GHz and 2.33GHz respectively and are said...

Keep your storage solutions simple

Alan Stevens — 2008-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 10 January 2008 at 00:00:00

We look at the data storage options available to small businesses

Every PC comes with a hard disk, but if you’re building a small business network you’ll need additional storage that can be shared and protected on your network....

Review: HP Mediasmart Server EX470 server

Emil Larsen — 2008-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 8 January 2008 at 00:00:00

Slow off the starting blocks, but HP’s Windows Home Server interface is polished

Tranquil PC was quick off the mark to sell a Windows Home Server (WHS) in October 2007 (read our review), with heavyweight HP holding back its punches until now....

Intel launches Montvale Itaniums

Clive Akass — 2007-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 1 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Seven new dual-cores succeed the Montecino generation

Intel has launched seven new dual-core Itanium processors, the first to use the Montvale architecture which succeeds the Montecino generation launched last year....

Review: Tranquil PC Harmony T7-HAS Windows Home Server

Emil Larsen — 2007-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 00:00:00

A small, passively cooled and unobtrusive Windows Home Server

The Harmony Home Server T7-HAS from Tranquil is the first retail PC we’ve seen running Microsoft’s new Windows Home Server (WHS) operating system - you can read our preview of...

Backup and the small business

Alan Stevens — 2007-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 18 September 2007 at 00:00:00

There are many options available to enable small businesses to back up data

We all know how important it is to back up your data, especially when it’s shared on a small-business network....

Review: Smoothwall Smoothguard 1000-UTM

Alan Stevens — 2007-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 17 July 2007 at 00:00:00

A fistful of small-business security tools in a convenient appliance format

Smoothwall has long offered a range of software-based security tools targeted at the small business market. Tools which the company has now integrated together and ported onto a hardware device...

Reading claims UK's most powerful academic computer

Martin Lynch — 2007-07-05T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World, Thursday 5 July 2007 at 00:00:00

Top for modelling pollution and climate change – but military has a more powerful one

The University of Reading now boasts most powerful academic supercomputer in the country. The IBM supercomputer IBM Blade Centre has been upgraded with 700 JS21 blades, equipped with 3,040 IBM...

Review: Buffalo Terastation Pro II network-attached storage

Alan Stevens — 2007-06-28T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 28 June 2007 at 00:00:00

Even faster shared storage for small business networks

Buffalo Technology has released a second generation of its Terastation Pro – the network-attached storage (Nas) appliance we tested last year....

Longhorn revealed

Alan Stevens — 2007-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Thursday 7 June 2007 at 00:00:00

Alan Stevens takes a first look at Windows Server 2008, previously codenamed 'Longhorn'

‘Longhorn’ Windows Server 2008, the next generation of Windows Server, is now available in feature-complete beta 3 format. This is an opportune moment to look at some of the key...

Review: Adaptec Snap Server 650 Nas appliance

Alan Stevens — 2007-04-23T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Monday 23 April 2007 at 00:00:00

Adaptec Snap Server 650A Nas appliance with power and capacity to burn

The Snap Server 650 from Adaptec is more powerful and scalable than most of the other network attached storage (Nas) appliances we’ve looked at....

First oil submerged server to go on sale

Emil Larsen — 2007-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 April 2007 at 00:00:00

Oil encased consumer PCs to follow

PCW has learnt that Very-PC will start selling oil submerged servers within 12 months time. The Sheffield based PC manufacturer claims to own UK patents to the technology which will...

What’s in a server?

Alan Stevens — 2007-03-14T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 14 March 2007 at 00:00:00

A practical guide to small-business servers. We guide you through the options

Here’s a common scenario. You’re starting out in business or looking to expand, and realise that a handful of standalone PCs and the odd notebook aren’t going to get you...

Review: D-Link Web Smart Switch DES-1228

Alan Stevens — 2007-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 00:00:00

A switch with a light touch when it comes to management

D-Link’s DES-1228 is part of the company’s lightly managed family of Web Smart Switches, offering much of the functionality of more expensive products but without the complexity....