What is cloud encryption, aka cloud storage encryption?-a tech explanation

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ June 26, 2021/ Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCloud encryption is a service offered by cloud storage providers whereby a customer’s data is transformed using encryption algorithms into ciphertext and stored in the cloud. By Michael Cobb, Margaret Rouse and Rachel Kossman Cloud encryption is almost identical to on-premises encryption with one important difference: The cloud customer must take time to learn about the provider’s policies and procedures for encryption and encryption key management. The

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How the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the backup services industry.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ June 20, 2021/ Archiving and backup, Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data protection, backup and archiving, Data storage backup tools, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe Covid-19 pandemic forced big changes in how people work – we look at impacts on backup, including increased reliance on the cloud, plus security and compliance vulnerabilities and ransomware By Stephen Pritchard Remote working is now a permanent arrangement for a growing number of businesses after the Covid-19 pandemic pushed organisations of all sizes to move to home working

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Monitoring the Health of NVMe SSDs-an insightful presentation on how to also manage their status.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 30, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices

Reading Time-approximately: 22 minutesMany capabilities have been built into NVMe technology, including enhancing error reporting, logging, management, debug, and telemetry. Here are insights on how you can manage the status and health of NVMe SSDs (like notifying users when an SSD failure occurs). By  Jonmichael Hands (and for your convenience below the verbatim presentation , … word for word) 00:03 Speaker 1: Hey, guys,

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What is an M.2 SSD?-a tech definition

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 30, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesAn M.2 SSD is a small form factor solid-state drive (SSD) that is used in internally mounted storage expansion cards. By Alexander S. Gillis M.2 SSDs conform to a computer industry specification and are designed to enable high-performance storage in thin, power-constrained devices, such as ultrabooks and tablet computers. They are generally smaller than other, comparable SSDs, such as the mSATA. SSDs are a form

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Implementing NVMe power management: why you should and how to do it.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 30, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, How do i...?, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUnderstand how to use NVMe built-in power management features to conserve energy, manage heat and, in the case of mobile devices, extend operating times. By John Edwards Fast, reliable NVMe SSDs have revolutionized data storage. There’s a downside to NVMe SSD technology, however: high power consumption. Fortunately, the NVMe specification offers numerous power management features. Here’s what you need to know. Why

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4 QLC workloads and why they’re a good fit for QLC NAND flash

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 28, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFind out about the read-intensive applications that work best with QLC NAND. Analytics, data archiving, streaming media and database workloads are all good options. By Robert Sheldon Storage vendors are constantly trying to pack more data into their NAND flash drives, often by increasing the number of bits per cell. NAND started out with one bit per cell, moved to

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PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 28, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWe thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost. By Antony Adshead When QLC flash storage drives arrived in the market last year, it looked like the storage media makers had pushed the manufacturing process as far as it could go. But now, Intel

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Introduction of EMC Celerra NS-960 Entry-Level Unified Storage System

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 21, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, EMC Network Storage Systems, EMC os-FLARE, EMC Technical Resources, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteWith Celerra NS-960, you can connect to multiple storage networks via network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN), and EMC Celerra Multi-Path File System (MPFS). MPFS improves performance over traditional NAS. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team EMC Celerra NS-960 is a unified storage system that brings advanced failover and fully automated storage tiering to multiprotocol environments.  Move

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EMC Celerra NS-480 Entry-Level Unified Storage System-an introduction

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 21, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, EMC Network Storage Systems, EMC os-FLARE, EMC Technical Resources, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteEMC Celerra NS-480 is a unified storage system that brings advanced failover and fully automated storage tiering to multiprotocol environments. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team. With Celerra NS-480, you can connect to multiple storage networks via network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN), and EMC Celerra Multi-Path File System (MPFS). MPFS improves performance over traditional NAS. Move

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Introduction to the EMC Celerra NX4 Entry-Level Unified Storage System

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 21, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, EMC Network Storage Systems, EMC os-FLARE, EMC Technical Resources, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteWith Celerra NX4 unified storage, you can eliminate file servers and consolidate application storage with network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, and Fibre Channel connectivity. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team. EMC Celerra NX4 brings the big benefits of consolidation together with fully automated storage tiering (FAST) at an affordable price. Go from power-up to production in as few as 15 minutes. Simplify

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