2205, 2023

Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences near ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 22, 2023/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center systems management, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre Capacity Planning, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT compliance and governance strategies, IT infrastructure management and planning, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, Web application and API security best practices

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLatest data from Synergy Research Group reveals uptick in enterprise on-premise IT infrastructure spending. By Caroline Donnelly The amount of money enterprises are investing in their own private datacentres experienced a “post-pandemic” bounce-back in 2022, as shown by data accrued by IT market watcher Synergy Research Group. The analyst has published its analysis of the 2022 infrastructure capital expenditure (capex) habits

0710, 2022

Wisely invest in an IT infrastructure upgrade lest you keep fixing it

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ October 7, 2022/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBecause upgrades to infrastructure equipment can be expensive and difficult, the easier decision is to renew a support contract. But delay comes at a cost, too. By Brian Kirsch A major IT infrastructure upgrade frequently lands at the bottom of to-do lists. It’s just easier — most of the time — to extend maintenance contracts and maybe do a few

2106, 2022

Idle servers in the datacenter are a waste of energy.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ June 21, 2022/ About data center as a service (DCaaS), Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data Center Outsourcing (DCO), Data center storage and networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning

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

1206, 2022

Holistic circular economies needed by IT departments to fight climate change.

Staff Writer/ June 12, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, circular economies, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data Center Outsourcing (DCO), Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre cooling infrastructure, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT compliance and governance strategies, IT Managed Services, IT Management

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

2305, 2022

Safety tips to protect data center staff

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 23, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSafety in the data center requires organizations to identify and address a variety of risk factors, from electrical systems to staff illness. By Allyson Larcom Data center facilities pose a variety of risks to the workers who operate them. Understanding proper data center safety is essential to protect staff. Common risks in data centers include environmental hazards, such as heat,

2305, 2022

Data center fire protection; what to know about them.

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesProtect your data center from potential fire hazards through proper mitigation, detection and suppression. Then, create a plan for recovery in the event of a fire. By Robert McFarlane Despite the rarity of data center fires, they can devastate your organization when they occur. Good fire protection provides insurance you hope you don’t have to use. Good data center fire

2103, 2022

What is a thin client (lean client) desktop? history, benefits and drawbacks.

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Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA thin client (or lean client) is a virtual desktop computing model that runs on the resources stored on a central server instead of a computer’s resources. By Alexander S. Gillis Normally thin clients take the form of low-cost computing devices that heavily rely on a server for computation. The term can also describe software applications that use the client-server model in which the

1902, 2022

Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH); an expert’s explanation and system planning considerations in your data center.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ February 19, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, computer room air handler (CRAH), Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre cooling infrastructure, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA computer room air handler (CRAH) is a device frequently used in data centers to deal with the heat produced by equipment. By Paul Kirvan Unlike a computer room air conditioning (CRAC) unit that uses mechanical refrigeration to cool the air in a data center, a CRAH uses fans, cooling coils and a water chiller system to remove heat. A typical rack of servers can

3112, 2021

HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) in the data centres.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ December 31, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Outsourcing (DCO), Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHVAC stands for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. In computing and especially in enterprise data centers, HVAC systems control the ambient environment (temperature, humidity, air flow and air filtering) and must be planned for and operated along with other data center components such as computing hardware, cabling, data storage, fire protection, physical security systems and power. By Robert Sheldon Almost all IT hardware comes with environmental

1311, 2021

What is load balancing in server hardware parlance?-we take a closer look at how it works and its methods.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ November 13, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLoad balancing is a technique used to distribute workloads uniformly across servers or other compute resources to optimize network efficiency, reliability and capacity. By Alissa Irei Load balancing is performed by an appliance — either physical or virtual — that identifies in real time which server in a pool can best meet a given client request, while ensuring heavy network traffic doesn’t unduly overwhelm a single