Sharon Horton

In competitive head-to-head testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found VMware Horizon and VMware App Volumes scaled virtual desktops faster and enabled...

The apps feature prominently in workflows for media and entertainment as well as in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) workflows.

Across three VM sizes, Lsv3-series VMs completed data query streams more than twice as fast as Lsv1-series VMs with older Intel Xeon processors.

From search result suggestions to text chatbots, NLP powers many everyday applications. Deep learning frameworks for NLP, such as RoBERTa, require intensive compute power to analyze text and make predictions quickly and effectively. Principled Technologies tested the RoBERTa performance of Amazon EC2 M7i instances featuring 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and M7g instances featuring AWS Graviton3 processors. For a fuller look at NLP performance an organization might expect from the instan…

MySQL databases serve as the powerful database for many business-critical workloads. In addition to scalability and high availability, the fully managed Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL service offers strong performance, as demonstrated in PT testing. The Azure delivered up to 2.26 times the TPS of three competitors—Amazon Aurora MySQL, Amazon Relational Database Service for MySQL, and Google Cloud SQL for MySQL—up to 55 percent lower latency, and up to 54 percent lower price per performance t…

In a new report, Principled Technologies (PT) tested the ease of several manageability tasks on two environments: a Dell PowerEdge MX environment using OpenManage Enterprise and OpenManage Enterprise Modular and a Cisco UCS X-series environment using Cisco Intersight. Testing revealed that organizations using the Dell environment could make VLAN changes in 40% less time and with 33% fewer steps, which can reduce the likelihood of error. Additionally, the ability to schedule firmware updates wit…

Organizations running their databases in the cloud have their pick of instance types, services, and cloud service providers, but not all instances offer the same performance and capabilities. Several cloud service providers offer flexible storage infrastructures, which can allow databases to grow on demand. PT evaluated the database performance and cost of two of these offerings: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL I/O-Optimized instances. According to the report, “Across…

March 28, 2025 is the retirement date for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server.(1) In real-world testing, PT found that the fully managed, production-ready Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server database service delivered better value and performance than Single Server. In fact, the Azure Database for PostgreSQL ­– Flexible Server with AMD EPYC instance PT tested delivered 4.71 times the new orders per minute (NOPM), 2.85 times the input/output operations per second (IOPS), and…

September 2024 is the retirement date for Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server. (1) In addition to offering better value, the fully managed Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server database service offers stronger OLTP performance and lower latency, as PT testing demonstrated. Azure Database for MySQL ­– Flexible Server with AMD EPYC delivered up to 117 percent better OLTP performance and up to 266 percent better performance per dollar than Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server on the s…

Generative AI (GenAI) offers a host of benefits for organizations to explore. But given the shifting hardware and software landscape, finding an efficient solution for an LLM workload or application can seem daunting. PT examined the benefits of using Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, for a GenAI solution. Following a Dell Validated Design at the start, then making modifications as necessary, they were able to completely deploy the…