Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Drop Ship Provisioning from Dell for VMware Workspace ONE to a Traditional Provisioning Process
Study finds that both online and offline Dell provisioning services for VMware Workspace ONE can deliver ready-to-work PCs faster and easier than the traditional provisioning process PT used. - April 13, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Capturing the Network Impact of Monitoring Environments with Dell CloudIQ
In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that using CloudIQ to monitor an environment with multiple host counts had minimal impact on network bandwidth. - April 13, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Report Exploring Dell Solutions for Hybrid Cloud, On-Premises Private Cloud, and Public Cloud
The report includes both research and the results of hands-on testing on a Tanzu cluster of Dell PowerEdge R7525 rack servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7763 processors. - April 12, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases a Report That Shows the Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 Server Provided Strong VDI Performance for Power Users
Principled Technologies (PT) captured VDI performance of a Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 server powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - April 06, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Remediation with Red Hat Smart Management vs. a Manual, Scripted Workflow on Four Common Maintenance Use Cases
In hands-on testing, PT found that using Red Hat Smart Management saved time compared to a using a manual scripted workflow to detect and remediate four types of configuration issues in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. - March 25, 2022
Dell Technologies APEX Private Cloud Offered Faster Data Analytics and Lower 3-Year Costs vs. Comparable Amazon EC2 Instances, Principled Technologies Study Says
The study features a comparison of data analytics and machine learning at scale in addition to a detailed total cost of ownership estimate for both solutions. - March 24, 2022
Principled Technologies Publishes New Website Section, "A Matter of Facts," Dedicated to Helping People Buy Smarter
Principled Technologies publishes collections of studies to help people make smarter buying decisions. - March 22, 2022
Principled Technologies Study Validates Key Features of Cloud Security Suite VMware Carbon Black on a Dell PowerEdge R750 Server
Several Carbon Black features worked on VMs and Kubernetes clusters in private and hybrid cloud settings. - March 17, 2022
Principled Technologies Publishes New Report Comparing Server Performance While Preparing Images for Machine Learning on Kubernetes
The study shows that a server cluster powered by AMD EPYC 75F3 processors achieved a 7.9% higher throughput rate and took 7.2% less time to preprocess a 1,720-image workload than a server cluster with Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors. - March 07, 2022
Principled Technologies Study Compares Two Virtualization Solutions: VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 and OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift 4.9
The VMware solution supported more than twice the number of active VMs as the Red Hat solution did and it required less downtime and less hands-on admin time during routine activities. - March 03, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing VDI Performance of APEX Private Cloud Solutions with and Without NVIDIA GPUs
In hands-on testing, PT found that a VDI cluster with NVIDIA T4 GPUs reduced latency for end users and delivered more frames per second than the same solution using CPUs alone. - March 01, 2022
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release WebXPRT 4, a Free Online Performance Evaluation Tool for Web-Enabled Devices
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released WebXPRT 4, a free online tool that gives objective information about how well a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any other web-enabled device handles common web tasks. Anyone can go to WebXPRT.com to easily run an evaluation test on their own device. - March 01, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the ResNet50 Performance of AWS M6i Instances vs. M5n and M6a Instances
In hands-on testing with multiple instance sizes, AWS M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated image classification over M5n instances with previous-gen processors and M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. - February 16, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Wide & Deep Performance of AWS M6i Instances vs. M5n and M6a Instances
In hands-on testing at multiple instance sizes, M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors handled more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen Intel processors and M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. - February 14, 2022
VMRay Email Threat Defender Supplemented Microsoft 365 Standard Email Security to Stop Up to 13 Additional Types of Attack in Principled Technologies Study
Email Threat Defender uses data from live threats in circulation to protect users from sophisticated attacks. - February 07, 2022
Parallels Desktop for Chrome OS Was a Simple-to-Deploy Solution for Accessing Fully Featured Windows Apps from Chrome OS Devices, in Principled Technologies Testing
Parallels Desktop for Chrome OS also contained user-friendly features and enabled Windows use of certain USB accessories - January 26, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Validating Real-World Use Cases for Dell Technologies APEX Cloud and Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies tested several management use cases that can deliver self-service to DevOps teams—while maintaining resource control for ITOps—with Dell Technologies APEX Private Cloud and APEX Data Storage Services running VMware vSphere with Tanzu - January 18, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Case Study Using a Pensando Distributed Services Card with P4 Programmable Software-Defined Networking Pipeline
A Pensando DSC-200-based environment delivered up to 13X the throughput of an environment based on the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx on iperf3 tests with connection tracking. - January 11, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Two Enterprise-Level Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the Oracle database I/O load generator performance and monthly costs of a Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services solution and an Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Storage solution. - January 11, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 Servers’ OLTP and VDI Performance
A cluster of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 servers outperformed a legacy two-socket environment while running a mixed online transaction processing (OLTP) and VDI workload - plus, the PowerEdge R6515 cluster also simultaneously supported a Kubernetes workload. - January 06, 2022
Principled Technologies Study Compares MariaDB Performance Between Two Sets of Google Cloud Platform Configurations with Different Generations of Intel Processors
Principled Technologies compared the MariaDB performance of N2 standard VM instances powered by 2nd and 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - January 06, 2022
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Online Analytics Processing Performance Between Two Sets of Google Cloud Platform VM Instances with Intel Processors
Principled Technologies compared data analysis performance between two sets of Google Cloud Platform VM instances—one enabled by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the other by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - January 05, 2022
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release a Preview of WebXPRT 4, a Free Online Performance Evaluation Tool for Web-Enabled Devices
Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released a preview of WebXPRT 4, a free online tool that runs in almost any browser and gives objective information about how well a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any other web-enabled device handles common web tasks. Anyone... - December 22, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Transactional Database Performance of One Amazon Public Cloud Instance and Two Microsoft Public Cloud VMs
Principled Technologies found that one Amazon EC2 r5B.16xlarge instance with EBS gp3 storage offered higher transaction throughput and lower average latency than an Azure VM using two different storage configurations. - December 16, 2021
New General-Purpose Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Handled More Web Traffic Than Older Azure VMs in Principled Technologies Study
Tests compared Ddsv5 series VMs with Ddsv4 VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 30, 2021
Azure Virtual Machines Based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 Processors Delivered Greater Performance on MySQL and Spark Machine Learning Workloads at a Lower Cost
Despite having lower Pay-as-You-Go pricing, Azure Standard_ HB120-64rs_v3 virtual machines based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7V13 processors outperformed Azure Standard_E64ds_v4 virtual machines based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors in benchmark testing. - November 24, 2021
VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu Delivered Greater Resource Efficiency and Pod Density Than Bare-Metal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
The virtualized VMware vSphere platform with Tanzu reduced storage and memory usage and supported more than six times as many Kubernetes pods. - November 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing AWS SAN in the Cloud Solution to an On-Premises SAN
Principled Technologies (PT) tested an Amazon EC2 r5b.24xlarge instance with two io2 Block Express volumes and an on-premises NVMe-based all-flash SAN solution with a transactional database workload. - November 23, 2021
PT Releases Studies Comparing Dell EMC PowerEdge XS Servers to Previous-Generation Servers
Principled Technologies (PT) tested the transactional database and VDI performance of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge XS servers vs. popular previous-generation options powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. - November 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Showing a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 Server Met Verification Standards for Three Milestone XProtect Video Workloads
In conjunction with Dell Technologies engineers, PT found that a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 server with a PowerEdge XE7420 node met stringent verification standards with four archivers. - November 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing MariaDB Performance of Two Series of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by Intel
Principled Technologies found that M6i series instances featuring newer Intel processors achieved better online transaction processing (OLTP) performance than M5 series instances featuring older processors. - November 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases a Second Study Comparing Two All-NVMe Database Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared a Dell EMC PowerStore 7000T storage solution to a similar solution from a different company (“Vendor B”). - November 16, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing SQL Server Performance of AWS EC2 M6i Instances vs. Older M5 Instances
In hands-on testing, PT found that M6i instances featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered faster data analysis for Microsoft SQL Server databases compared to M5 instances with older processors. - November 09, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That a Single Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Server with Kubernetes Containers Can Support Up to 47,150 Web App Users
With a VMware vSphere and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid environment, the server supported thousands of Weathervane users while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements. - November 09, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Process of Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services Solution to a Similar Competitor Solution
In hands-on testing, PT found that Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services deployed a managed Storage as-a-Service solution in as little as 13 days, which was quicker than the competitor solution. - November 05, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing the Procurement Processes for Two Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the purchase, procurement and installation processes for Dell Technologies APEX Data Storage Services versus for an HPE GreenLake data storage solution. - November 02, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Two All-NVMe Database Storage Solutions
Principled Technologies compared the Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 storage array to a similar array from another vendor. - October 21, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing MySQL Performance of AWS EC2 M6i Instances vs. Older M5 Instances
In hands-on testing, PT found that M6i instances featuring 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors delivered more MySQL transactions per minute than M5 instances with older processors. - October 18, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Three Chromebooks with Education Workflows
Principled Technologies tested three devices - two powered by Intel Core i5-1145G7 and Intel Core i7-1185G7 processors and one powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 3700C processor. - October 04, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Business User Experience Featuring the Dell Latitude 9420 vs. the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
In a series of tests, Principled Technologies (PT) found that the Dell Latitude 9420 offered better responsiveness on several benchmarks, longer battery life and cooler surface temperatures. - September 28, 2021
Principled Technologies Tests Deep Learning Inference Performance on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Powered by Intel
Principled Technologies tested newer Microsoft Azure Esv4-series VMs featuring Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors against older Esv3-series VMs featuring Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processors. - September 24, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Amazon Web Services M5n Instances Powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Principled Technologies tested newer M5n instances featuring Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processors versus older M4 instances featuring Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors. - September 23, 2021
Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xa Solution Supported Up to 40 Remote Data Science Knowledge Workers, Principled Technologies Study Says
Solution featured 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and NVIDIA A100 Tensore Core GPUs - August 27, 2021
Windows 10 Laptops Powered by Intel Core i3-1125G4 and Intel Core i5-1135G7 Processors Saved Time in Various Apps, Principled Technologies Study Says
Compared to a laptop powered by an Intel Pentium N6000 processor, these two laptops were more responsive during several real-world tasks. - August 26, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Two Studies on the Benefits of New Microsoft Azure VMs Featuring 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Studies compare VMs in online transaction processing and data analytics work - July 07, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study on Three Support Services’ Ability to Detect Hard Drive Issues
Dell ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist successfully detected a hard drive in a pre-failure state. - July 01, 2021
Principled Technologies Releases Study Comparing Two Models of Acer Chromebook 712 Powered by Intel Processors
One Chromebook contained an Intel Core i3-10110U processor, while the other had an Intel Celeron 5205U processor. - June 29, 2021
Principled Technologies Publishes Report That Shows How eCommerce Applications Could Benefit from Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 Servers Running VMware vSAN
Principled Technologies (PT) found that replacing older servers in a VMware vSAN cluster with Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 servers powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors can help companies process more database transactions. - June 23, 2021
Principled Technologies Finds That Upgrading to Latest-Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 Servers Could Boost Data Analytics Performance
In hands-on testing by Principled Technologies (PT), the latest-generation server ran more data analysis workloads in less time than two older Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. - June 15, 2021
New Guide from Principled Technologies Demonstrates How to Use VMware vSAN HCI Mesh to Share Storage Resources Across Clusters
According to the report, the VMware technology can improve the flexibility of HCI storage and management. - June 10, 2021