Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLicensing for virtual machines can be particularly tricky to navigate for IT admins, who must ensure proper licensing for hosts — as well as software running inside VMs. By Brien Posey Software licensing is rarely straightforward — and virtualization only increases licensing complexity, as both virtualization platforms and VMs themselves must be licensed properly. 2 key rules for VM licensing
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
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: 3 minutesThis is a must read for CIOs and other line managers. Share this list of phishing techniques and detection tips to help employees avoid phishing schemes. Plus, review technologies to protect your enterprise from phishing attacks. By Sharon Shea and Steven Weil Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, complex and common. According to a 2020 Proofpoint study, 90% of organizations
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesOne of the biggest challenges of network eavesdropping attacks is they are difficult to detect. Read about prevention measures to help keep your network safe from snoopers and sniffers. By Sharon Shea Network eavesdropping attacks, also known as network sniffing or network snooping attacks, occur when malicious actors take advantage of insecure network connections to exfiltrate data as it is being communicated. Just
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesData storage technology can harm the environment. Choose efficient storage strategies and green-friendly cloud providers to help reduce the environmental impact of data storage. By Paul Kirvan As many IT professionals go about their daily work, they may not consider the environmental impact of data storage, and the systems and technology they use. Data storage, both on premises and 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: 4 minutesMicrosoft unveiled a Datacenter Azure edition to go with the traditional Standard and Datacenter editions. See what else is new with this server OS release in this breakdown. By Brien Posey Windows Server 2022 arrived without the pageantry of previous Windows Server releases, but organizations with specific needs will appreciate the refinements to this server OS release. Microsoft has offered
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesSlow network speeds, weak Wi-Fi signals and damaged cabling are just some of the most common network connection issues that IT departments need to troubleshoot. By David Jacobs Business networks are complex, and many things can go wrong that disrupt network performance. End users often complain about what appears to be poor application performance, and there can be many possible
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