Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAs admins evaluate data center performance, they need ways to look at both short-term and long-term data. KPIs offer one way to evaluate components, such as storage. By Stephen J. Bigelow Data center admins must regularly gauge hardware and software performance to help them make decisions about upgrades and staffing. Key performance indicators are a useful way to gain perspective
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEnd users don’t want their productivity interrupted by IT maintenance. With the right technology, testing and planning, you can reduce or eliminate downtime in the data center. By Brien Posey Hardware and software data center upgrades are an inevitable part of operations, but you can take measures to ensure that they do not result in any data center downtime. The
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT administrators can upgrade CPU, RAM and networking hardware to maintain smooth server operations and to maximize resources. By Alastair Cooke There are many server maintenance tips that can help you protect servers over their three-to-five year lifespan in the corporate data center, such as refreshing RAM and network cards and keeping software up to date. Physical cleanliness is an
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe tape data storage market has confronted a major legal issue and a pandemic. Buoyed by strong archival use and offline protection, capacity shipments rose last year. By Paul Crocetti Published: 03 Sep 2020 With the increase in digital work and life as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the world is creating more data. Much of that data is immediately
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Kevin Ferguson Published: 29 Jun 2020 Maintaining an inventory of your servers, devices and apps helps classify information about servers and keeps information about software and applications all in one place. In addition, a provisioning inventory provides evidence of activities the IT team has executed, such as configuration changes, capacity planning, last restores and recovery tests. The types of inventory
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs datacentres become increasingy decentralised and the security threats they face increase in number and complexity, IT admins are at risk of becoming overwhelmed as they strive to keep on top of their server farm estates By Stuart Burns, MMC Datacentre security is a complex subject that is unlikely to get simpler any time soon, particularly as the industry continues to expand
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFor daily work files, databases and mission-critical systems and data, the more frequent the backup, the better. But how often should you back up all your data? By Paul Kirvan With all the backup-focused products available on the market today, there is no excuse not to back up systems and data. The key to making all of this work is
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCreating and adopting a data backup plan is only the first step. To achieve complete data protection, you also need a backup testing strategy. By John Edwards The importance of scheduling regular data backups to protect against the possibility of a primary storage system failure is well understood. Less widely recognized, however, is the fact that backups can also fail,
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhen evaluating the cost of a hyper-converged storage system, it’s important to keep the functionality of the system in mind in addition to cost per gigabyte. By Brien Posey It isn’t entirely fair to compare the expense of a SAN or NAS system to that of a hyper-converged system because the three technologies were created for different purposes. In addition,
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesComputational storage is an emerging technology, but it isn’t too soon to develop an understanding of how it can be used to address storage latency and performance issues. By Stacey Peterson Published: 23 Jun 2020 Computational storage is all about moving computation closer to storage and reducing the amount of data that must travel between storage and compute. If successful, this emerging
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