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Dell does not publish an end-of-life date for a PowerEdge server. Asked on Dell’s own forum, a Dell community moderator answered on August 24, 2023: “There isn’t any documented information for End of Life and End of Support Life on PowerEdge servers.&rdqu … read more

iDRAC, the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, is the management computer Dell builds into every PowerEdge server: a separate chip with its own firmware and network address that lets you power the server on and off, read its sensors and update its firmware over the networ … read more

AutoCAD 2027 lists Windows 11 as its only operating system, and its minimum memory doubled to 16 GB. Revit 2027 and Inventor 2027 dropped Windows 10 too, and Dassault’s own table marks it “no” for SOLIDWORKS 2026 and 2027. For anyone shopping fo … read more

On September 15, 2026, Cisco put an end date on UCS Manager, the software at the center of its Unified Computing System since 2009. The end-of-life notice for release 6.0 stops sales on December 31, 2027 and support on December 31, 2030; the older 4.3 line ends s … read more

Correction, October 2, 2026. Proxmox’s ZFS cache rule of thumb, 2 GiB plus 1 GiB per TiB, counts available storage, not raw disks, and neither it nor the installer’s default reserves memory: both are ceilings. The first version of this article applied the … read more

Three ways to run a model you have picked out: buy a small box built for it, rent a big one by the hour, or build a node from decommissioned data-centre parts. The comparison is usually printed as a slogan, and the slogan is wrong in both directions. Both directions, from publi … read more

Two ways to put 64 GB of registered DDR4 into a workstation from our shelf, priced September 20, 2026: four 16 GB modules at $107.99 each, or two 32 GB at $215.99. The first comes to $431.96, the second to $431.98. Two cents apart — and on a six-channe … read more