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: 4 minutesMicron unveiled NVMe SSDs with seven form factors this week, all with PCIe Gen 4 performance. The new family of SSDs could take Micron deeper into the data center. By Adam Armstrong First Published: 08 Oct 2021 Micron continues its focus on the data center, as evidenced by its release of the 7400 PCIe Gen 4 family of SSDs Wednesday.
Reading Time-approximately: 14 minutesEdge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible. By Stephen J. Bigelow Edge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesFree, open source AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and VzLinux are clones of the popular CentOS Linux distribution, which became a rolling release from IBM Red Hat. By Jack Wallen Many businesses used CentOS as a reliable, free and open source Linux distribution that could power many ecosystems — until IBM Red Hat decided to end CentOS in favor of the rolling
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe chipmaker says one issue for Windows 11 users is causing the L3 cache latency of its CPUs to roughly triple, slowing down latency-sensitive applications by 3-5 percent. For PC games that are commonly played for esports activities, the performance impact can be much worse: a 10-15 percent reduction. By Dylan Martin AMD is warning that its CPUs may take a
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the protocol underlying the global routing system of the internet. It manages how packets get routed from network to network through the exchange of routing and reachability information among edge routers. By John Burke BGP creates network stability by guaranteeing routers can adapt to route failures: when one path goes down, a new path is quickly
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOperational technology (OT) is a category of hardware and software that monitors and controls how physical devices perform. By Brien Posey In the past, OT was used primarily in industrial control systems for manufacturing, transportation and utilities — and unlike information technology (IT), the technology that controlled operations in those industries wasn’t networked. Many of the tools for monitoring or
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe hyper-converged infrastructure market has seen a good deal of movement lately. While some vendors strengthened their products, others went in the opposite direction. By Dave Raffo Hyper-converged market leaders have remained constant in recent years, but technology offerings among those giants and other players are evolving. Nutanix debuted with an early hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) product that combines storage, compute and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesGain insight into Dell EMC’s hyper-converged portfolio, including VxRail and XC Series appliances, VxRack System Flex plus vSAN, VxFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes. By James Alan Miller Hyper-convergence integrates compute, networking, storage and virtualization resources inside appliances called nodes that easily link up for scalability purposes. For the past 10 quarters in a row, Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure products
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAfter a lengthy development process, Microsoft unveiled its new admin portal for Exchange Online for a more consistent look with other management areas in Office 365. By Reda Chouffani Microsoft recently gave the Exchange admin center a makeover, giving it a streamlined look to align the interface with the other administrative portals. In the IT world, changes to application interfaces
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