2612, 2020

What is a SAN? Ultimate storage area network guide

T-Blog Editor/ December 26, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices, SAN technology and arrays

Reading Time-approximately: 18 minutesA storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network or subnetwork that interconnects and presents shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow The availability and accessibility of storage are critical concerns for enterprise computing. Traditional direct-attached disk deployments within individual servers can be a simple and inexpensive option for many enterprise

2312, 2020

What is SAN zoning and what are the different types of zoning?

T-Blog Editor/ December 23, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Computational Storage, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesZoning can be set up according to server, storage and SAN switch. Discover what type of zoning to use, how zone sets extend SAN segmentation and about the various zoning schemas. By Simon Gordon and Garry Kranz SAN zoning gains importance once your SAN includes more than a couple dozen devices. During the early days of SAN, there was debate

1612, 2020

data deduplication hardware-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 16, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data center hosting, Data Centre Servers, Tech Definitions, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesData deduplication hardware is disk storage that eliminates redundant copies of data and retains one instance to be stored. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Erin Sullivan Hardware-based deduplication products perform deduplication at the target rather than the source, or server. Data deduplication features can be found in data protection hardware such as virtual tape libraries, backup appliances and network-attached storage systems. Data deduplication recognizes redundant data

1612, 2020

social engineering attack surface-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 16, 2020/ About data center as a service (DCaaS), Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Email and messaging threats, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe social engineering attack surface is the totality of an individual or a staff’s vulnerability to trickery. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Social engineering attacks usually take advantage of human psychology: the desire for something free, the susceptibility to distraction, or the desire to be liked or to be helpful. Social engineering is often used by hackers and other

1612, 2020

What’s involved in cloud repatriation cost calculation?

T-Blog Editor/ December 16, 2020/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT spending and budgeting, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe costs associated with cloud repatriation go beyond the migration itself. IT managers must account for any new hardware, backup requirements and available skilled personnel. By Alan R. Earls The industry realization about some of the cloud’s downsides has led to repatriation measures that bring essential workflows back to the data center. Though, depending on the scale and size of

1612, 2020

workload-tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 16, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesIn computing, a workload, typically, is any program or application that runs on any computer. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow A workload can be a simple alarm clock or contact app running on a smartphone, or a complex enterprise application hosted on one or more servers with thousands of client (user) systems connected and interacting with the application

0312, 2020

Hidden colocation cost drivers to look out for in 2021

T-Blog Editor/ December 3, 2020/ Cloud computing, Colocation, hosting and outsourcing management, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesThese unexpected charges and fees can balloon colocation costs for enterprise IT organizations. By Stephen J. Bigelow Every colocation deal involves a detailed contract and service agreement, but the true colocation cost is buried in myriad supplemental charges and fees in the fine print or price sheets — and even in those costs that aren’t mentioned. Colocation facilities free IT

0312, 2020

8 benefits of a security operations center

T-Blog Editor/ December 3, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Information security policies, procedures and guidelines

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA security operations center can help lessen the fallout of a data breach, but its business benefits go much further than that. Here are eight SOC benefits to consider. By Sharon Shea A security operations center, or SOC, is one of the first lines of defense against attacks and breaches. The infosec employees working within this command center create, implement

3011, 2020

Stand-alone servers on treacherous ground in data center

T-Blog Editor/ November 30, 2020/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStand-alone servers are getting phased out of data centers in favor of converged and hyper-converged systems. But not all legacy IT infrastructure is on its way out the door. By Ed Scannell With the confluence of converged, hyper-converged and now super-converged systems swirling toward the data center, the decades-old stand-alone server appears to be standing on treacherous ground. Once the

3011, 2020

Colocation data center outage response and support

T-Blog Editor/ November 30, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Colocation, hosting and outsourcing management, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesNavigating data center malfunctions when hardware is off premises can be tricky. Organizations must have strong SLAs with their colo provider to ensure appropriate response times. By Stephen J. Bigelow Data center colocation providers offer space, power, cooling and physical security, but colocation also poses the potential drawback of slower response times during a data center outage. Organizations that use