1704, 2021

3 ways to approach legacy hardware maintenance

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Small Business Technologies, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBudget, maintenance cycles and specialized use cases are all reasons to keep legacy hardware. Minimize costs and outages with service contracts and emulation options. By Brien Posey All data center admins face legacy hardware maintenance. In a perfect world, data centers would be equipped solely with the most up-to-date generation of hardware. However, budgetary and operational requirements mean most infrastructure

1704, 2021

uninterruptible power supply (UPS)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CIO Resources, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, UPS Sizing-Data center Design

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAn uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is a device that allows a computer to keep running for at least a short time when the primary power source is lost. UPS devices also provide protection from power surges. By Robert McFarlane A UPS contains a battery that “kicks in” when the device senses a loss of power from the primary source. If an end

1704, 2021

What is SMART and how to use it to predict HDD or SSD failure.

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data backup security, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Disaster recovery planning - management, Disaster recovery storage, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Partner Content, Small business disaster recovery, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesSMART is a system that monitors the internal information of your drive. Its clever name is actually an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. SMART, also written as S.M.A.R.T., is a technology found inside HDDs and SSDs. It is independent of your operating system, BIOS, or other software. Original Tutorial (Edited) By Codrut Neagu A lot of us have experienced a hard

1704, 2021

The 5 principles of zero-trust security

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network application performance, Network Security, Network visibility, Zero-trust model (zero trust network)

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesZero trust is a journey, not a destination. Ensure your corporate network is safe from internal and external threats by implementing these five principles of zero-trust security. By Andrew Froehlich Perimeter security is no longer the best option for enterprise IT departments. A far more flexible architecture is needed that focuses on users, devices and services. The concept of zero

1704, 2021

5 common security authentication factors to know

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Network visibility

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesMultifactor authentication is a security system that requires two or more authentication steps to verify the user’s identity. Discover the most important terms related to MFA. By Katie Donegan Authentication is a process of confirming whether someone or something is actually who or what it claims to be. Demand for multifactor authentication in the United States has been galvanized by government regulations,

1304, 2021

The storage that IP surveillance needs;on-premise and in the cloud

Staff Writer/ April 13, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data storage backup tools, SAN technology and arrays, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesSurveillance is changing, with the evolution from simple streams of sequential images to the application of AI to video, as well as an increasing move to use of the cloud. By Antony Adshead Surveillance systems demands huge amounts of storage media. With most surveillance based around image capture, that will always likely be the case. That also means that input/output (I/O)

2003, 2021

White box switches and hyper-convergence aid data center networks now

Staff Writer/ March 20, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Center Networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhite box switches and hyper-convergence are two upgrades that can breathe new life into your data center network. Learn what they are and how to make them work for you. By David Jacobs Two recent developments promise to alter the ways that compute environments are built and managed. The first, white box switches, lowers network component costs while increasing the

1703, 2021

RAID 10 (RAID 1+0)-explained

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Storage management and analytics

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesRAID 10, also known as RAID 1+0, is a RAID configuration that combines disk mirroring and disk striping to protect data. It requires a minimum of four disks and stripes data across mirrored pairs. As long as one disk in each mirrored pair is functional, data can be retrieved. If two disks in the same mirrored pair fail, all data will be lost because there is

1703, 2021

Do I need to buy server virtualization management software?

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server virtualization management tools and practices

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesExpert Brien Posey discusses seven factors to consider when deciding whether or not server virtualization management software would be beneficial for your company. By Brien Posey With a number of different vendors offering server virtualization management software, administrators must question whether such a product is a good fit for their organization. In doing so, there are seven primary considerations that

0503, 2021

Is RAID 50 the right configuration for your organization?

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Remote data protection

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesRAID 50 combines striping with distributed parity for reduced data loss and better performance. By Rick Cook and Erin Sullivan Much as the name implies, RAID, or redundant array of independent disks, uses redundancy to reliably protect and store data on hard disks and SSDs. There are numerous RAID options out there, and the most common is RAID 5. If you’re looking