As technology has progressed, low-power computing has become a lot more viable for everyday tasks than it was a few years ago. This is no more apparent than in the thin client market, where the hardware on offer is significantly more powerful today.

A microserver is just what the name implies – a much smaller, more compact computer with server-like functionality. Intel first started working on the concept back in 2009, introducing a reference design for what it saw as a new server category that called for 16 hot-swappable microserver nodes squeezed into a 5U rack.

Dell EMC recently announced the official launch of the integrated Dell EMC Partner Program, built from the ground up while preserving the best of two world-class legacy programs.

A tech startup in Canada has developed technology intended to help gamers improve their pings. It’s called WTFast, and it’s a “Gamer Private Network” (GPN) subscription service that analyses network traffic from a long list of popular games, and then optimises the route those specific packets travel.

Hard drive capacities are reaching epic proportions. Much like in the 1990s, when we moved from 20GB hard drives to what seemed like monster 100GB, then 160GB, then 250GB drives and beyond in the early 2000s, we’re seeing the same sort of crazy  jumps in today’s terabyte-mad hard drive world.