Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIs your data center equipment starting to show signs of aging? These performance metrics can evaluate hardware health and help you decide if assets should be maintained or retired. By Robert Sheldon Data center assets — such as servers, network components and power equipment — should be retired on a routine basis to ensure application and operational workflows continue uninterrupted
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs the pandemic continues, research firms state that organizations must realign IT budgets to support projects that maintain operations and put nonessential initiatives on hold. By Meredith Courtemanche The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted 2020 IT infrastructure spending and projects across all types of industries. Months into this abrupt economic and workplace change, and without an end in sight, organizations must make
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Garry Kranz An SDDC (software-defined data center) is a data storage facility in which all infrastructure elements — networking, storage, CPU and security — are virtualized and delivered as a service. Deployment, operation, provisioning and configuration are abstracted from hardware. Those tasks are implemented through software intelligence. Former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is widely credited with coining the term around 2012. An SDDC
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center facilities and infrastructure to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider’s data center, using the servers, networking, storage and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider. A DCaaS provider is typically engaged by a business that can
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNew technologies make venerable tape storage tech a smart choice for off-site backups and data archiving. Explore pros and cons, as well as how the pandemic affects tape use. By John Edwards Published: 30 Jun 2020 Tape technology, regarded by many storage professionals as legacy hardware, is mounting a surprising comeback. While hardly anyone expects tape-based backup to become the dominant
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesData is your organization’s most important digital asset. Here are some tips on how to ensure physical data backups are stored at a safe and secure location. By John Edwards Published: 31 Mar 2020 Creating regular data backups is necessary to protect essential data from both natural disasters and human destruction. It’s equally important for organizations to decide on the location
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesThis guide offers information on the effect of the coronavirus on enterprises and the need for pandemic and business continuity planning to keep businesses safe and in operation. By Sandra Gittlen Published: 10 Jun 2020 Companies are beginning to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses and processes. Properly assessing this requires a review of corporate business continuity
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIT infrastructure isn’t just an on-premises data center anymore. The ‘2020 State of the Data Center’ report shows growing interest in private cloud, edge and colocation. ByJessica Lulka Published: 08 Sep 2020 Video killed the radio star, but cloud won’t kill the data center. IT resources continue to grow as organizations generate large amounts of data and find new ways to
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesYou have a big decision to make when you deploy virtual desktops: Do you go with persistent or nonpersistent VDI? The choice often comes down to storage.. By Alyssa Provazza When it comes to virtual desktop infrastructure, administrators have a lot of choices. As a virtual desktop admin, you may have wondered about the differences among VDI software options, remote
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThere are a variety of factors that affect VDI storage, including system requirements and supported workloads. Evaluate these factors to ease the VDI planning process. By Robert Sheldon Published: 01 Sep 2020 IT must take a variety of factors into account during the VDI planning process, and storage is one of the most crucial components. IT should think of VDI storage
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