Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs organizations reevaluate their budgets to keep up with today’s economy, experts provide tips on how they can effectively reduce IT costs. By Lisa Morgan Most IT departments are under pressure to reduce costs. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that failing to invest in the right technologies and tools can be costly. Businesses overwhelmed by the sudden demand
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesPerformance, capacity and data protection features are a few of the many factors SMB organizations should consider in their comparisons of entry-level SANs. By Robert Sheldon Storage area networks are no longer the exclusive domain of large organizations. Many vendors offer entry-level SAN products, hoping to lure customers away from their network-attached or direct-attached storage systems. But SAN products vary significantly in
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organization can quickly resume work after an unplanned incident. A DRP is an essential part of a business continuity plan (BCP). By Kate Brush and Paul Crocetti It is applied to the aspects of an organization that depend on a functioning IT infrastructure. A DRP aims
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs. Courtesy Post: TechTarget Contributor The RTO is a function of the extent to which the interruption disrupts normal operations and the amount of revenue lost per unit time as a result of
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe 3-2-1 backup rule was made for small-scale use in the pre-cloud era when tape still ruled. Is it relevant in the 2020s, or can we repurpose its fundamental principles? By Antony Adshead A fundamental of backup is 3-2-1 – often referred to as “the 3-2-1 rule”. But what is the 3-2-1 rule? Is it still of value to all organisations, especially
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThese storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind. By Johnny Yu Winning products in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year storage system and application software category focused on Kubernetes and cloud. With more workloads leaving data centers, the best data storage and
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCloud networking is when some or all of an organization’s networking resources are located in the cloud. Hosting networking resources in the cloud means that businesses can create complex networks only with the need for an internet connection. Networking resources are normally hosted by a third-party cloud provider. By Alexander S. Gillis Cloud networking focuses on the ability for a cloud customer
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesVirtual or soft switches can add measurable overhead to network-intensive workloads, but implementing PCI devices offers one option to reduce excess overhead. By Glen Kemp Spectre and Meltdown illuminated networking vulnerabilities that are still being assessed, but it’s obvious the attacks affected network capacity planning. While administrators hunt for ways to mitigate the effect of these attacks, one specification — single-root
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesISCSI is a transport layer protocol that describes how Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) packets should be transported over a TCP/IP network. By Dave Raffo and Rich Castagna ISCSI, which stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface, works on top of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and allows the SCSI command to be sent end-to-end over local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs)
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlock storage is an approach to data storage in which each storage volume acts as an individual hard drive that is configured by the storage administrator. In the block storage model, data is saved to the storage media in fixed-sized chunks called blocks. Each block is associated with a unique address, and the address is the only metadata assigned to each block.
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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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