Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Ben Lutkevich; Mary K. Pratt; Francesca Sales Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third-party to perform tasks, handle operations or provide services for the company. The outside company, which is known as the service provider or a third-party provider, arranges for its own workers or computer systems to perform the tasks or services either
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Ed Hannan LTO-6 is a tape format from the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Consortium released in 2012. It was preceded by LTO-4 in 2007 and LTO-5 in 2010. LTO-7, LTO-8, LTO-9 and LTO-10 formats are scheduled, but not yet available. According to the Consortium, LTO-6 offers 2.5 terabytes (TB) of native capacity (6.25 TB compressed) capacity, native sustained data transfer rates of
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWhen updating your organization’s pandemic plan, it can help to have these terms handy. These tools, processes and standards are key to a solid recovery plan. By Erin Sullivan Published: 25 Aug 2020 In the middle of a global pandemic, organizations around the world are at different stages of recovery. While some businesses may be in the reopening phase, many are
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe tape data storage market has confronted a major legal issue and a pandemic. Buoyed by strong archival use and offline protection, capacity shipments rose last year. By Paul Crocetti Published: 03 Sep 2020 With the increase in digital work and life as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the world is creating more data. Much of that data is immediately
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesServer hardware has consistently evolved since the first web server in 1990. Here’s a look at the major advancements in form factor, management and virtualization. By Jacob Roundy Published: 04 Jun 2020 Millions of servers exist worldwide, many of which are hidden away in server farms and data centers. But have you ever considered the technology’s origins? The history of server
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Kevin Ferguson Published: 29 Jun 2020 Maintaining an inventory of your servers, devices and apps helps classify information about servers and keeps information about software and applications all in one place. In addition, a provisioning inventory provides evidence of activities the IT team has executed, such as configuration changes, capacity planning, last restores and recovery tests. The types of inventory
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWith Microsoft 365 IE 11 support coming to an end, organizations must prepare for the day when relying on the browser is no longer an option, industry observers said. By Mike Gleason Published: 28 Aug 2020 Microsoft’s office productivity applications will stop working with Internet Explorer in 2021, another step toward obscurity for the once-dominant browser. The company announced this month
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCOVID-19 has made working from home a reality for many workers, but what is the future of remote work? Will current policies persist, or will it be back to business as usual? By Mike Gleason Published: 16 Apr 2020 Work-from-home technology has proven itself in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, experts said, erasing some of the productivity worries that held
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe initial response to COVID-19 focused on purchasing new technologies and retooling systems to support work from home, but organizations must help maintain end-user productivity. By John Powers Published: 26 May 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, organizations were forced to purchase and adopt new technologies to enable remote work setups. Those that successfully transitioned to a work-from-home model must now
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesResearch from Aruba signals a shift in customer appetite for more subscription-based services. By Simon Quicke Published: 03 Sep 2020 16:09 The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the way people work and the choice of technologies underpinning that recent transformation. As a result, digital transformation trends have accelerated and vendors are starting to alert their channel partners to
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On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, China. ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed as the causative agent of what we now know as ‘Coronavirus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread to more than 100 countries, including South Africa.
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