To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the ...

On its Website for IT professionals, Intel has introduced a calculator that customers can use to determine the performance and power efficiency of their servers. The calculator takes into account ...

Database performance tuners need to know three metrics about their SQL Server: how fast it's going, how hard it's working, and how big it is. Brent Ozar will explain where to get those numbers, and ...

SQL Server 2008 was made available in August this year, despite the slight delay in its release. This report explores the suitability of SQL Server as a BI and data warehousing platform, and the ...

Redgate is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced query identification, optimization ...

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released the next generation of its software for measuring both the performance and power use of Web servers.

At one time, the only thing that really mattered when benchmarking Web servers was performance. But performance as a sole measure of servers has gone the way of the muscle car era, and the ...