Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesConsider several SSD performance benchmarks, including SSD response time as a key unit of measurement. Also, note the difference between benchmarks and load generators. By Dave Raffo and Leah Schoeb It’s no longer big news when a vendor claims its solid-state storage system has reached a performance of 1 million IOPS. Still, it can be tough for a user to
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUtility storage is a service model in which a provider makes storage capacity available to an individual, organization or business unit on a pay-per-use basis. By Robert Sheldon The customer purchases only the services, not the equipment itself, even if the equipment is housed on premises. The utility model is sometimes called metered services or storage on demand. The term “utility” is used because the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNVMe 2.0 added several features for storage administrators to consider, including domain support. The specification also made enhancements, such as to Endurance Group Management. By Jim Handy The NVMe 2.0 specification, published in June 2021, introduced changes to improve performance and to support new uses of NVMe. While NVMe originally supported only block storage, which was the way that storage
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesVirtual storage offerings are not one size fits all. Factors in virtualized storage software selection include storage type, current infrastructure and management tools. By Brien Posey Storage virtualization is one way admins can improve migration speed, host more than one array type and make costs more predictable. Yet, like any technology, IT managers must ensure whatever software tool they choose
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe main steps to configure DHCP on Windows Server are installation, Active Directory authorization, creating a scope and DNS registration. Learn about other tasks and best practices. By Damon Garn Network nodes require an IP address configuration that usually comprises the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway IP for the router, name servers and other values. Administrators can manually set
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesJBOD, which stands for just a bunch of disks, is a type of multilevel configuration for disks. It refers to a collection of disks in a computer system or array combined as one logical volume. By Alexander S. Gillis and Brien Posey JBOD is used by organizations that need an efficient on-premises storage method. It offers huge amounts of storage and can
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLoad balancing is a technique used to distribute workloads uniformly across servers or other compute resources to optimize network efficiency, reliability and capacity. By Alissa Irei Load balancing is performed by an appliance — either physical or virtual — that identifies in real time which server in a pool can best meet a given client request, while ensuring heavy network traffic doesn’t unduly overwhelm a single
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is an electronic interface standard that defines the connection between a bus on a computer’s motherboard and the computer’s disk storage devices. By Robert Sheldon and Sonia Lelii The IDE interface was originally based on the IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture 16-bit bus standard, but it has since been implemented in computers that use other bus standards. In November 1990, the American National Standards
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA terabyte comprises more than 1 trillion bytes. Discover how the storage measurement scale was created and where a terabyte stands among other units of measurement today. By Erin Sullivan and James Alan Miller As the amount of data we generate continues to grow, so does the list of units to measure it. The humble byte is now attached to
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile Microsoft 365 users face storage limits across the platform, there are ways to increase capacity. It’s also important to understand the limits in the first place. By Brien Posey Microsoft 365 is one of the world’s most popular SaaS applications, and organizations of all sizes store vast amounts of data in its cloud. However, it is important to know
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