Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEnterprises should make it a habit to review their IT security systems, following steps that include network segmentation, multifactor authentication and security education. By Terry Slattery Without a strong network security strategy, IT security will fall short — and vice versa. The National Security Agency (NSA) has identified three basic functions to form the foundation of a good IT security
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteWith Celerra NX4 unified storage, you can eliminate file servers and consolidate application storage with network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, and Fibre Channel connectivity. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team. EMC Celerra NX4 brings the big benefits of consolidation together with fully automated storage tiering (FAST) at an affordable price. Go from power-up to production in as few as 15 minutes. Simplify
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA penetration test, also called a pen test or ethical hacking, is a cybersecurity technique organizations use to identify, test and highlight vulnerabilities in their security posture. By TechTarget Contributor and Puneet Mehta These penetration tests are often carried out by ethical hackers. These in-house employees or third parties mimic the strategies and actions of an attacker in order to evaluate the hackability of
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUnderstand these six crucial best practices for backing up and restoring VMs on your ESXi host. These strategies will ensure backups are protected and restoration is successful. By Stephen J. Bigelow Countless caveats, cautions and priorities can guide workload protections, but consider incorporating some VM backup best practices to help improve your processes. Use caution with backup agents Although modern
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesCreating backups in virtual environments has its own challenges. Avoid some of the typical errors involving snapshots, quiescing and scheduling, and generate solid VM backups. By Eric Siebert In order to achieve the most efficient virtual machine backups possible, always make sure your backup application takes advantage of the many benefits provided by the virtualization architecture. The process of backing up
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe VMware snapshot is a critical component of VMware backup. In this guide to the basics of VMware backup, we walk you through the key processes and suggest some best practices. By Michelle Laverick Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup (VSS-based backup) is a Windows service that captures and creates snapshots called shadow copies. By Brien Posey and John Hilliard VSS, also known as Volume Snapshot Service, operates at the block level of the file system and enables virtual server backup in Microsoft environments. In addition to the service itself, Windows VSS has three major components: VSS writer: Each VSS-aware application
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWe look at the key ways that backups can fail – via software issues, hardware problems, trouble in the infrastructure and good old human error – and suggest ways to mitigate them By Antony Adshead Despite the prevalence of many forms of data protection – that range from local RAID via snapshots and replication to keeping copies in the cloud – the
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteIn computer security, responsible disclosure (also known as coordinated vulnerability disclosure), is a vulnerability disclosure model in which a vulnerability or an issue is disclosed only after a period of time that allows for the vulnerability or issue to be patched or mended. This period distinguishes the model from full disclosure. Tekmart Africa Enterprise Team Developers of hardware and software often require time and resources to repair their mistakes.
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