The top data storage and management tools of 2020

Staff Writer/ March 27, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, About SDDC (software-defined data center), Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Storage management tools

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThese storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind. By Johnny Yu Winning products in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year storage system and application software category focused on Kubernetes and cloud. With more workloads leaving data centers, the best data storage and

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block storage-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 24, 2021/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlock storage is an approach to data storage in which each storage volume acts as an individual hard drive that is configured by the storage administrator. In the block storage model, data is saved to the storage media in fixed-sized chunks called blocks. Each block is associated with a unique address, and the address is the only metadata assigned to each block. 

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blade server-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 20, 2021/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, IT Management

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesA blade server, sometimes referred to as a high-density server, is a compact device containing a computer used to manage and distribute data in a collection of computers and systems, called a network. Its role is to act as a conduit between computers, programs, applications and systems. By Laura Fitzgibbons In general, a blade server consists of a chassis, or box-like

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White box switches and hyper-convergence aid data center networks now

Staff Writer/ March 20, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Center Networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhite box switches and hyper-convergence are two upgrades that can breathe new life into your data center network. Learn what they are and how to make them work for you. By David Jacobs Two recent developments promise to alter the ways that compute environments are built and managed. The first, white box switches, lowers network component costs while increasing the

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RAID 10 (RAID 1+0)-explained

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Storage management and analytics

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesRAID 10, also known as RAID 1+0, is a RAID configuration that combines disk mirroring and disk striping to protect data. It requires a minimum of four disks and stripes data across mirrored pairs. As long as one disk in each mirrored pair is functional, data can be retrieved. If two disks in the same mirrored pair fail, all data will be lost because there is

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Do I need to buy server virtualization management software?

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server virtualization management tools and practices

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesExpert Brien Posey discusses seven factors to consider when deciding whether or not server virtualization management software would be beneficial for your company. By Brien Posey With a number of different vendors offering server virtualization management software, administrators must question whether such a product is a good fit for their organization. In doing so, there are seven primary considerations that

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Is RAID 50 the right configuration for your organization?

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Remote data protection

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesRAID 50 combines striping with distributed parity for reduced data loss and better performance. By Rick Cook and Erin Sullivan Much as the name implies, RAID, or redundant array of independent disks, uses redundancy to reliably protect and store data on hard disks and SSDs. There are numerous RAID options out there, and the most common is RAID 5. If you’re looking

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RAID, flash and erasure coding: What works best with solid state?

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, CTOs Quick Reads, Data center design and facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWe look at RAID and flash to highlight key choices when it comes to drive data protection. What RAID levels work best with solid state and when is erasure coding a good choice? By Stephen Pritchard RAID systems have been the building blocks of enterprise storage since the 1990s. But RAID – redundant array of inexpensive disks – originated the decade before that in

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How to manage third-party risk in the supply chain

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ CTOs Quick Reads, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Information security threats, IT Management

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFrom third-party risk assessments to multifactor authentication, follow these steps to ensure suppliers don’t end up being your enterprise cybersecurity strategy’s weakest link. By Michael Cobb The recent SolarWinds supply chain hack has affected public and private organizations worldwide, but this type of attack is not new. The Target, Home Depot, Boston Medical Center and PNI Digital Media data breaches

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colocation (colo)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ February 28, 2021/ Data center facilities, Data center hosting, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA colocation facility, or colo, is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. By Brien Posey A colocation facility, or colo, is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Typically, a colo provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security, while the customer

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