Server Power Supply Explained: Redundancy, Titanium, Sizing
Buy a server with two power supplies and it's tempting to assume you've bought resilience and headroom in one line item. You haven't necessarily bough…
Bare Metal vs VM vs Container Explained (2026 UK Guide)
Ask three engineers to define a server in 2026 and you'll get three different isolation boundaries: a dedicated chassis, a hypervisor-carved virtual m…
BMC Out-of-Band Management Explained: iDRAC, iLO, XCC 2026
Every server sold today contains a second, much smaller computer that most admins never think about until something goes wrong. This is the Baseboard …
Server Form Factors Explained 2026: Rack vs Tower vs Blade
A single 42U rack cabinet can hold 35-40 individual 1U servers in roughly 0.6 square metres of floor space — a density that explains why choosing betw…
PCIe Lanes and Slots Explained: Gen5, Gen6, Bifurcation
Every GPU, NIC and NVMe drive draws from the same finite pool of CPU lanes — and that pool is smaller than most configuration tools admit. A single Ge…
Xeon 6 vs EPYC Turin Explained: Server CPU Naming Decoded
AMD's 192-core EPYC 9965 (Turin) lists at $14,913, against $17,800 for Intel's own 128-core Xeon 6980P (Granite Rapids) — a snapshot recorded in late …
Confidential Computing Explained: Intel TDX vs AMD SEV-SNP 2026
Encryption at rest and in transit is now standard practice, but data sitting in RAM has traditionally been plaintext — visible to the hypervisor, the …
Server CPU Cores, Threads & Chiplets Explained (2026)
Intel's newest flagship server chip is marketed as a 192-core processor, but open the package and you'll find four separate ~48-core dies stitched tog…
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