What is meant by MTBF (mean time between failures)-a tech explanation

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Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteMTBF (mean time between failures) is a measure of how reliable a hardware product or component is. Courtesy Post: By TechTarget Contributor For most components, the measure is typically in thousands or even tens of thousands of hours between failures. For example, a hard disk drive may have a mean time between failures of 300,000 hours. A desired MTBF can

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What does high availability (HA) mean?-a tech definition

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Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesHigh availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time. HA works to ensure a system meets an agreed-upon operational performance level. In information technology (IT), a widely held but difficult-to-achieve standard of availability is known as five-nines availability, which means the system or product is available 99.999% of the time. ByBen Lutkevich

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SAN management best practices for optimizing performance

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Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSANs consolidate resources and provide a high-speed network for storage traffic, but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook when it comes to performance management. By Brien Posey Storage area networks can deliver the performance required by even the most demanding enterprise workloads. Even so, there are several SAN management best practices that must be followed to achieve the optimal

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3 ways to approach legacy hardware maintenance

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Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBudget, maintenance cycles and specialized use cases are all reasons to keep legacy hardware. Minimize costs and outages with service contracts and emulation options. By Brien Posey All data center admins face legacy hardware maintenance. In a perfect world, data centers would be equipped solely with the most up-to-date generation of hardware. However, budgetary and operational requirements mean most infrastructure

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uninterruptible power supply (UPS)-a tech explanation

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Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAn uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is a device that allows a computer to keep running for at least a short time when the primary power source is lost. UPS devices also provide protection from power surges. By Robert McFarlane A UPS contains a battery that “kicks in” when the device senses a loss of power from the primary source. If an end

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