Mean package power under load by minute, collapsing from 32 W to 7.4 W on a Dell Latitude 5520, alongside the headline measurements: 389 MHz, 56 °C, 8.4 W.

Dell Latitude Laptop Throttling

A Dell Latitude 5520 kept collapsing to 389 MHz under full load while the die sat at 56 °C. The worn battery had an alibi, the thermal paste was never the problem, and the clue that broke the case was a correlation running backwards. A field investigation into sustained power-limit throttling on Tiger Lake mobile — and the reboot that finally cleared it.

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HV Replication Monitor application welcome interface

Introducing HV Replication Monitor

When I first heard about Hyper-V Replica for Windows Server 2012, I was immediately awe-struck. I thought, this technology was a perfect addition to Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization services. Until replication services were available, the only viable solution for ‘Disaster Recovery’ was backups or enterprise-grade clustering. Clustering isn’t even considered a backup solution or even a DR solution, but rather, it’s in a category called ‘High Availability’. I’m no stranger to clustering. I’ve installed my share of them. However, the implementation is complex, expensive, and sometimes a cause of failure in and of itself. The moment you use clustering, you immediately […]

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