Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAny efforts to improve energy efficiency and cut waste should be applauded. But for every good outcomes, the IT industry seems to take several steps backwards, in its ability to promote energy efficiency and recycling. Cliff Saran Computer Weekly has previously written about the TPM scam on Windows 11. Yes it is a scam, because a perfectly good PC is made
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA converged network adapter (CNA) is a single network interface device that provides the functionality of both a Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) and a TCP/IP Ethernet network interface card (NIC) By Robert Sheldon and Todd Erickson CNAs connect servers to FC-based storage area networks (SANs) and Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs). A CNA attaches to a server via a
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBig Tech is a term that refers to the most dominant and largest technology companies in their respective sectors. By Linda Rosencrance Their products and services are used globally and have become heavily relied upon by businesses and individuals alike, bringing up privacy, safety and Antitrust concerns about their influence and operations and whether strict regulations should be considered. What companies
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesYou can use these steps to either upgrade or downgrade the IOS on an ISR router. We have used the Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Router (ISR) in this example. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support First up, you must make sure you have done the following ready : 1) Get the new IOS to the router 2) Verify the integrity
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesFollow these steps to recover the password on the CLARiiON and VNX array. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team You might have a VNX5100 array and encounter a situation where it was initialized by someone in the past and you no longer know the username and password to login to it from unisphere. Follow the below steps to recover that password
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHere we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but it is also applicable to iLO3 and iLO2. Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Post courtesy of: https://woshub.com/ If you have physical access to your HPE server, you can restart your host and press F9 during the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a new line of cloud-native compute solutions powered by Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors. Post courtesy of: Harold Fritts With the new ARM-based HPE ProLiant RL300 server line, the company is targeting service providers and enterprises that are embracing cloud-native development. HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesServers can be the slackers of the datacenter, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? By Fleur Doidge The Uptime Institute estimated as far back as 2015 that idle servers could be wasting around 30% of their consumed energy, with improvements fuelled by trends such as virtualisation largely plateaued. According to Uptime, the proportion of
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesDatacenters and cloud providers without a crystal ball can make educated guesses on future requirements to right-size resources and infrastructure. By Fleur Doidge Multi-year datacenter planning is more constrained than ever, with equipment and construction lead times lengthening against a background of rising requirements around storage, power and compute. With hyperscalers sitting on resources in a global game of musical
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
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