With the rise of cloud computing, many companies are stuck with a pile of servers that are retired due to dated hardware and software. So if you've also recently replaced an old server and are ...

In the innocent days of the very late 20th century there was The Family Computer. This single computer sat in a home’s communal space and was shared by each of that home’s residents. For many of us, ...

Our own [Dave Rowntree] started running into bottlenecks when doing paid work involving simulations of undisclosed kind, and resolved to get a separate computer for that. Looking for budget-friendly ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the curious case of the eternal server, a VM that lives on forever with no natural decline or death state. The comparison I made in that piece was to the natural ...

Microsoft is set to end support for the aging server OS in July, but this migration process should ease the move. Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is set to end this month and if you haven't ...

[Arnuschky] was looking for a network storage solution that included redundancy. He could have gone with a new NAS box, but didn’t want to shell out full price. Instead, he picked up a Dell PowerEdge ...

Resourceful people can use an old desktop as a server of some sort, but they also may have an old laptop around collecting dust. Although most of today's desktop environment software runs too slowly ...

If your home, like mine, has more than a couple of Macs, backing up each one individually can be quite a chore. You can make your life easier—and keep your data safer—by setting up an old Mac or a Mac ...

Tech analysts TrendForce reckon old server memory sticks are being stripped of their DDR4 memory at scale, only for the chips to be resoldered and sold as new on DDR4 memory sticks for consumer PCs.