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Training large-scale AI models is far beyond the capabilities of ordinary desktops. If you plan to run LLMs, process big data, or design custom deep learning solutions, you need to know which AI server can actually handle the workload. The choice isn’t just “pick something with an RTX”—the entire platform matters: GPU, CPU, RAM, storage, cooling, and scalability.

Already trained the model? Now it’s time to move it into production—fast, stable, and without bottlenecks. This is where AI inference comes in: the phase in which your model processes live data and returns results in real time. To make this effective, you need the right hardware: an inference server capable of sustaining heavy loads, with a GPU and CPU optimized not for training but for low-latency, high-throughput inference at scale.

A server room is more than just a space for rack cabinets and blinking LEDs. It is a critical point of IT infrastructure that must operate continuously—regardless of weather, power supply, or system failure. If you want to ensure your company’s data remains secure and your equipment operates stably according to standards, every detail counts—from air conditioning, through raised flooring and emergency power, to access control and HSE documentation.

Do you have more workloads but no way to expand your hardware? Server virtualization is a method to maximize the efficiency of your existing infrastructure—without purchasing new servers, rack cabinets, or costly hardware. When properly implemented, it increases flexibility, simplifies management, shortens deployment times, and significantly reduces IT infrastructure operating costs.

Without them, nothing works as it should. A system administrator is the person behind every service, server, and application in the company – often invisible, yet indispensable. They are responsible for IT infrastructure security, performance, availability, and scalability. Beyond the purely technical role, they act as a business partner, ensuring that data remains secure, systems run without interruptions, and the organization can safely expand.

SSD or HDD – seemingly a simple question, yet the answer depends on what you aim to achieve. In data centers, where every terabyte, millisecond, and watt count, storage choice directly translates into costs, performance, and data security.

Tired of overloaded servers that can’t keep up with your company’s growth? Instead of investing in another expensive “just-in-case” machine, it’s worth considering a natively scalable solution – a compute cluster.

AI is not only models and data - it is also heat. A lot of heat. As server compute density scales up, the demand for efficient, reliable, and scalable cooling grows in lockstep.

Want to speed up your server without spending a fortune on an all-flash array? A hybrid SSD and HDD sounds like a reasonable compromise – at least on paper. In practice, hybrid drives can surprise you not only with their price, but also with their administrative requirements, scenario-dependent performance and hidden costs.

R640, T330 and M420. You probably know how Dell EMC uses letters and numbers to name its PowerEdge server models. If not, we highly recommend you to read this article to understand these naming conventions and which generation the servers belong to.

Choosing the best server for a business can be a difficult process. With so many server types, processors, hard drive, and other options to choose from, it’s almost impossible to know where to begin. If you want to know how to setup a server for your business, this is right place.

NVMe drives are modern data carriers that use the PCI Express interface to communicate with a computer. They are much faster and more efficient than traditional SSD drives that use the SATA interface.

In this article, we will explain what server renewal involves and what are the advantages for an organization of using a recertified server over a new one.

In this article, you'll learn what an NVMe drive is, how it works, its benefits for servers, and how to choose the best NVMe drive for your server.

Many companies are moving their infrastructures to cloud services. Meanwhile, it is still On-Premise solutions that guarantee greater reliability, security and scalability. Overall, they are also quite a lot cheaper.

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The scale of DDoS attacks and their increasing complexity means that service operators are increasingly looking for solutions that give them full control over protection. See which solutions will be effective.

When it comes to servers, one mistake can turn everything upside down. Imagine a drive crashes, the system freezes, data disappears and the loss meter is ticking. So how do you protect against such scenarios?

Do you know how complex energy and power management can be in a Data Center ecosystem? It is often the key to optimizing, securing, and ensuring the continuity of the entire server infrastructure.

Find out what to do if you keep getting the message ‘DNS server not responding’. Learn about the most effective solutions to the problem and its causes.

Many administrators associate SNMP with ‘something that collects data from routers’. But before you set up your first agent and connect monitoring, it is worth understanding how this protocol works, what to expect from it – and what absolutely not to do.

In this post, you will learn what IOPS really means, how to measure it, when it matters, and why choosing a drive without this knowledge is simply a gamble.

TBW (Total Bytes Written) is an indicator that tells you how much data you can write to an SSD over its lifetime before the memory cells wear out to the point where the drive becomes unstable.

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a DRAM technology designed for maximum bandwidth and minimal power consumption, used primarily in graphics chips and AI accelerators.

ECC or non-ECC RAM – this decision can affect the stability of the entire infrastructure, especially where data must not only be fast, but above all correct.

In enterprise environments, the concept of a computer network means much more than just connectivity between devices. It is the backbone of IT infrastructure, supporting communication between services, access to applications, access control, and security monitoring.

Choosing a processor for a server or workstation is not just about the number of cores. If you want to avoid costly mistakes, you need to understand what the symbols, numbers and letters in Intel CPU names really mean.

Remote access to the server, even when the system is down? IPMI makes it possible – without any tricks. This standard for management outside the operating system has been present in enterprise-class hardware for years, but it is still often underestimated.

Hardware Direct is proud to announce that we have become an authorized partner of Proxmox Server Solutions—the European leader in the field of virtualization.