Benchmarking four compact LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 500+ shows that smaller models such as TinyLlama are far more practical for local edge workloads, while reasoning-focused models trade latency for ...

Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...

While recording my VMware vSphere 5 Training course this past summer, I made mention that I developed a process for building an effective naming convention for enterprises. Server and desktop ...

It's easy to miss neat features that get added to really broad products, because they don't get publicized as the most important thing about the release. But the under-publicized features can also be ...

In my last article I discussed running VMware's ESXi 8 hypervisors and how I planned to install it on a Raspberry Pi 5-based system, specifically the Pi 500, which is basically a Pi 5 housed inside of ...

What does "composable" mean in the context of IT? Vendors are increasingly talking about composable infrastructure or composable workloads, but how do they differ from how we've managed our ...

As the threat of increased cyberattacks looms, many businesses are looking at different tools to keep them safe(r). There are of course many areas to cover such as endpoints, identity, email, ...

Geopolitical uncertainty is driving organizations outside the U.S. to explore sovereign cloud alternatives, ranging from country-specific Azure regions to fully disconnected on-premises deployments.

Although the leaders in Gartner's new research report on strategic cloud platform services basically remain the same -- AWS for the 15th consecutive year -- the hyperscaler space is reflecting ...

The technology industry is awash with stories about Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, with most of the focus landing on price increases and sweeping changes to product bundling. But the sticker shock ...

It allows you to create a secure access portal that will allow authorized users to access your organization's internal web applications, even if users are working remotely. Most organizations have a ...

This is the third article in a series on using Microsoft Windows Subsystem on Linux (WSL). The first article discussed how to enable Linux on Windows and install it on an ESXi server. The second ...