3007, 2023

How organizations can prepare for a data storage audit.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ July 30, 2023/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage, Data center storage and networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Storage architecture and strategy, Storage performance

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDuring data storage audit preparation, gather documentation on storage practices, test results and storage security plans. Evidence is crucial for a satisfactory report. By Paul Kirvan To ensure that data storage activities are consistent with good practice and relevant standards and regulations, perform periodic audits of the data storage process. Audits ensure that the organization regularly performs data storage activities,

3007, 2023

The differences between network reliability and availability.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 30, 2023/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Networking, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, IT infrastructure management and planning, Network Infrastructure

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNetwork reliability is how long infrastructure works without disruption. Network availability is the percentage of time infrastructure operates in a given time frame. By Amy Larsen DeCarlo Enterprise reliance on connectivity to keep operations running requires consistent and precise network performance monitoring. IT organizations need service quality guarantees from their providers that they are meeting or exceeding performance standards. Subpar

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

0412, 2022

Which is better for performance-AHCI or RAID:?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ December 4, 2022/ Application-aware storage, Backup and Archival Tools, Cloud storage management and standards, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Data protection, backup and archiving, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe Advanced Host Controller Interface and RAID are fundamental concepts for running an efficient data management and storage infrastructure. Learn the AHCI and RAID basics. By Scott D. Lowe, and Brien Posey Even in this age of SSDs, IT still works with technologies developed in the last century. These techs include the Advanced Host Controller Interface and redundant arrays of independent

1211, 2022

What is VMAX3? An overview of its architecture with examples.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ November 12, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center hardware and strategy, Data center hosting, Data center server infrastructure and OSes, Data center storage and networking, Data center systems management, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, EMC Network Storage Systems, EMC os-FLARE, EMC Technical Resources, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe EMC VMAX3 is a family of SAN arrays designed for enterprise environments requiring large amounts of storage. Post courtesy of: Vince Westin EMC announced the latest new systems in the VMAX3 family. The new systems are the 100K, the 200K, and the 400K, known collectively as the VMAX3 Family. They are updated versions of the 10K, 20K, and 40K. In addition

2609, 2022

Differences between Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) types H200A and H200I and how to spot them.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ September 26, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, IT infrastructure management and planning, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBy Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support You will come across a few different H200 models though with different Dell Part #(s): like 3J8FW, 47MCV and UO39M. All these models will be able to pass the disks directly through to the OS if you are in need JBOD support. The PERC H200 controllers offer the ability for the customer to specify any

0108, 2022

How to check, and select, the most suitable FreeNAS HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) for your project.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ August 1, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFreeNAS is a FreeBSD based storage platform that utilizes ZFS. The fact that it uses a popular enterprise file system and it is free means that it is extremely popular among IT professionals who are on constrained budgets. Post courtesy of: ServeTheHome With FreeNAS using ZFS as well as effective storage tiering using SSD and RAM caches, many users will

2907, 2022

Hardware longevity should be encouraged, and here’s why….

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 29, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage and networking, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAny efforts to improve energy efficiency and cut waste should be applauded. But for every good outcomes, the IT industry seems to take several steps backwards, in its ability to promote energy efficiency and recycling. Cliff Saran Computer Weekly has previously written about the TPM scam on Windows 11. Yes it is a scam, because a perfectly good PC is made

2007, 2022

Upgrading or downgrading the IOS on an ISR (or similar) router; a simple how-to step by step guide.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 20, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Networking, Data center storage and networking, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesYou can use these steps to either upgrade or downgrade the IOS on an ISR router. We have used the Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Router (ISR) in this example. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support First up, you must make sure you have done the following ready : 1) Get the new IOS to the router 2) Verify the integrity

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