Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesData gravity can attract increasing amounts of data, and brings with it onerous management overheads. We look at how to mitigate data gravity in datacenter and cloud. By Stephen Pritchard When it comes to enterprise applications, access to data – and lots of it – is usually a good thing. And the greater the volume of required data held locally
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, IT managers should revamp procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but what does this mean for managing the IT lifecycle? By Sebastian Klovig Skelton Enterprises must build holistic circular economies around their operations to address every source of emissions and waste if the IT sector is to tackle
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA carbon offset is a credit that a person or organization can buy to decrease its carbon footprint. When the number of carbon offset credits obtained is equal to an individual or organization’s carbon footprint, that person or organization is carbon-neutral. By Ben Lutkevich Revenue generated from the purchase of carbon offsets is often — but not always — invested in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNACK, or NAK, an abbreviation for negative acknowledgment or not acknowledged, is a signal used by computers or other devices to indicate that data transmitted over a network was received with errors or was otherwise unreadable. By Katie Terrell Hanna and Peter Loshin NACK is sometimes conflated with automatic repeat request (ARQ) or with the rejected (REJ) message, though the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesRoute summarization — also known as route aggregation — is a method to minimize the number of routing tables in an IP network. By Rahul Awati It consolidates selected multiple routes into a single route advertisement. This differentiates it from flat routing, in which every routing table carries a unique entry for each route. In basic terms, a route advertisement contains information that devices can use
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a communications interface and driver that takes advantage of the increased bandwidth PCIe has to offer. By Enterprise Technical Support The benefits of NVMe NVMe technology provides superior storage, superior speed and superior compatibility. Since NVMe utilises PCIe sockets, it transfers 25x more data than the SATA equivalent. Along with more data, NVMe’s commands are
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFCAPS (fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security) is a network management framework created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The primary objective of this network management model is to better understand the major functions of network management systems. By Andrew Zola Introduced in the early 1980s, the goal was to move away from a reactive form of network management to a
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesReady to move your on-premises apps to the cloud? From rehosting vs. redesigning to testing and monitoring, follow these key steps for a successful cloud migration. By Stephen J. Bigelow Businesses migrate workloads to the cloud for a variety of reasons. The public cloud is far more scalable than most on-premises data centers — its extensive array of resources, services
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCloud migrations are inevitable for some enterprises as they navigate a move off premises or between clouds. Evaluate some of the latest migration trends and the pros and cons that come with each. By George Lawton and Sara Grier The last couple of years have brought a significant shift in how enterprises think and use the cloud — and the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLeading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required. By Joe O’Halloran The brave new world of hybrid working is having a profound effect on the technological infrastructure of businesses. With soaring demand for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and cloud to support the
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