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The Ins and Outs of Server Reliability
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Server Benchmark Gamesmanship Is Perilous For The Players, But Good For The Buyers

Lamont Wood, 08.28.2008

Last month, Fujitsu Computer Systems was able to boast that its server had achieved the best price-performance ratio on a Transaction Processing Performance Council (TCP) benchmark. Three weeks later, a Dell unit took the top spot. Watching the show may be dizzying, but it offers non-obvious advantages for server buyers.
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