Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteLinear Tape Open (LTO) LTO-7 Type M technology is the ability of the LTO-8 drive to write 9 TB on a brand new LTO-7 cartridge instead of 6 TB as specified by the LTO-7 format. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team LTO tape can provide years of protection at a much lower cost than other storage solutions. With Linear Tape File
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe most important and often overlooked criteria when evaluating data centers is power. In this article, we will examine all of the important power terminology and calculations that you need to know before starting your colocation project. Courtesy Post: By Bob West There are many considerations when selecting a data center facility or colocation provider such as location, security, and support.
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTRIM is a command for the ATA interface. As you use your drive, changing and deleting information, the SSD needs to make sure that invalid information is deleted and that space is available for new information to be written. Trim tells your SSD which pieces of data can be erased. By Carol Sliwa SSD TRIM is an Advanced Technology Attachment
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUnplanned downtime can lead to serious consequences, including reputational harm, revenue loss and extra IT costs. Use these tips to plan for the unexpected. By John Edwards Downtime is costly for any organization. Just how costly depends on many factors, including how long the downtime lasts, when it occurs, and, perhaps most importantly, whether the downtime was planned or unplanned.
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe diskpart is one of the oldest tools in the Windows operating system that handles a wide range of disk management jobs, such as assigning drive letters and deleting partitions. Courtesy Post: By SearchWindowsServer staff For basic disk operations on Windows systems, administrators can use diskpart, a command-line utility that remains useful for many different drive-related jobs more than 20 years
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesDifferent types of networking cables are the backbone of a network’s infrastructure. Selecting the right type is critical, as enterprise network admins deploy new technologies. By Chris Partsenidis The types of network cables employed in any network infrastructure is one of the most important aspects of networking, and it has become increasingly critical with the introduction of newer technologies, such
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAmerican Wire Gauge (AWG) is the standard way to denote wire size in North America. In AWG, the larger the number, the smaller the wire diameter and thickness. By Gavin Wright The largest standard size is 0000 AWG, and 40 AWG is the smallest standard size. It may also be called Brown & Sharpe wire gauge or simply the gauge of the wire.
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe network performance monitoring market is changing to address the emergence of IoT and AI. Read more about the NPM market evolution, the leading vendors and the diverse products they offer. By Andrew Froehlich The evolution of technologies is inevitable. Yet, the enterprise network performance monitoring market has undergone huge changes in just a few short years. The network performance monitoring tools
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStatic routing uses preconfigured routes to send traffic to its destination, while dynamic routing uses algorithms to determine the best path. How else do the two methods differ? By David Jacobs and Mark Dargin Static routing and dynamic routing are two methods used to determine how to send a packet toward its destination. Static routes are configured in advance of
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA hypervisor is a function that abstracts — isolates — operating systems (OSes) and applications from the underlying computer hardware. By Brien Posey and Alexander S. Gillis This abstraction enables the underlying host machine hardware to independently operate one or more virtual machines as guests, enabling multiple guest VMs to effectively share the system’s physical compute resources, such as processor cycles, memory space and
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