Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs climate change becomes a more pressing issue, these sustainability best practices can help your data center go greener, which benefits both your business and the environment. By Julia Borgini Making a data center more environmentally friendly means studying your facility’s power and resource usage and learning what potential changes can make a difference. You can take steps such as
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations that want to extend traditional network file shares across data centers, branch offices and public cloud infrastructure have many options. By Kurt Marko The global distributed file system has been available since the early 1980s, when Carnegie Mellon University developed the Andrew File System. It became one of the first platforms developers built for a new era of networked
Reading Time-approximately: 10 minutesNetwork-attached storage (NAS) is dedicated file storage that enables multiple users and heterogeneous client devices to retrieve data from centralized disk capacity. By Ben Lutkevich and Garry Kranz Users on a local area network (LAN) access the shared storage via a standard Ethernet connection. NAS devices typically do not have a keyboard or display and are configured and managed with a browser-based
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEven with software-based data center options, it’s still important to know the physical components of a server. Check out these terms to refresh your memory. By Stephen J. Bigelow and Jessica Lulka Servers are the powerhouse behind every data center. These modular, boxy components contain all the processing power required to route and store data for every possible use case. Depending
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesLearn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. By Marc Staimer Flash, a.k.a. NAND, SSDs continue to be a hot topic for IT pros. They are found in storage arrays, NAS, appliances, drives and PCIe memory cards. Flash SSDs have rapidly become part of every storage acquisition
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLearn the differences between the main modes of multiprocessing: SMP, AMP and MPP. Each has a distinct use case that makes it suited for different data centers and organizations. By Jacob Roundy A symmetric multiprocessing system contains multiple processors that share the same memory and operate under a single OS. This architecture enables each processor to work on any task
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event. Courtesy Post: By Vicki-Lynn Brunskill A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event. The BCP should state the essential functions
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe most important and often overlooked criteria when evaluating data centers is power. In this article, we will examine all of the important power terminology and calculations that you need to know before starting your colocation project. Courtesy Post: By Bob West There are many considerations when selecting a data center facility or colocation provider such as location, security, and support.
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWrite endurance is the number of program/erase (P/E cycles) that can be applied to a block of flash memory before the storage media becomes unreliable. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEnergy-efficient storage promises several benefits. Finding the right approach requires carefully assessing available technology, where you keep your data and costs. By John Edwards As more organizations contemplate transitioning to an energy-efficient data center, green data storage is gaining attention. With several storage technology choices available, the main challenge green storage adopters face is finding and following their best approach
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