Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesServing sizing requires a number of comparisons, especially between having a few large servers or many popcorn servers. Compare use cases to find what fits. By Jim O’Reilly Sizing a server for virtualized clusters requires a choice between using a few large, powerful servers or many small, inexpensive ones. Administrators must compare the advantages of each setup in the context
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesDeciding how many cores per CPU to have in your virtual servers can be tricky, but if you take these factors into consideration, you’re bound to choose the right number. By Jim O’Reilly The seemingly simple issue of deciding how many cores to have in each CPU in your virtual servers has a number of complex dimensions. First, CPUs tend
Reading Time-approximately: 11 minutesToday’s server platforms offer a host of options for SMBs and enterprise IT buyers; it’s important to learn the essentials before making any purchasing decisions. By John Moore The explosive growth of cloud computing platforms and the preceding wave of virtualization have significantly altered the role of the server among SMBs and enterprises. Virtualization enabled organizations to load multiple virtual
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe role data centers play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements By Daniel Robinson The datacentre is going through a period of rapid flux at the moment, the likes of which have not been seen
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIn this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. By Caroline Donnelly More than 100 million people are in strict lockdown across Europe as governments and health systems attempt to battle the spread of the devastating Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. And, while normal life
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTurning a data centre into a lights-out, hands-off environment saves money and removes the possibility of human error. Find out how to properly separate humans and hardware. By Clive Longbottom As the history of the data centre has unfolded, we have seen the dynamics of how these changes have worked. In the first place, the mainframe-centric data centre was a
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThin clients aren’t on a diet; they just do less processing than ‘fat’ clients. Devices such as the iPad are also VDI hardware options. By Alyssa Provazza Published: 11 Sep 2020 When it comes to virtual desktop infrastructure, administrators have a lot of choices. You may have wondered about the differences between VDI software options, remote display protocols or all the
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesUse this server deployment checklist to make sure you’ve covered all your bases. From power distribution outlets to available network connectivity, server deployment can be an arduous process. By Stephen J. Bigelow A comprehensive server deployment checklist involves a lot more than buying adequate computing resources at an attractive price. It takes talented IT administrators and other personnel to source,
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesNetworking makes the internet work, but neither can succeed without protocols. Common network protocols and functions are key for communication and connection across the internet. By Michaela Goss Without network protocols, the modern internet would cease to exist. Common network protocols, including Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), enable the exchange of information across the internet and work behind
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs more organizations adopt SSDs, practices for storage optimization need to evolve. Learn how tactics, such as disabling defragmentation and using the write cache, can play a role. By Stephen J. Bigelow Solid-state drive storage has gained traction as enterprises seek faster and more reliable storage for top-tier applications. But the rise in solid-state drive deployment has also spawned a
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