Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT administrators can upgrade CPU, RAM and networking hardware to maintain smooth server operations and to maximize resources. By Alastair Cooke There are many server maintenance tips that can help you protect servers over their three-to-five year lifespan in the corporate data center, such as refreshing RAM and network cards and keeping software up to date. Physical cleanliness is an
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDated infrastructure poses security threats to organizations — especially with the amount of sensitive data used today. Address these concerns with active inventory audits. By Julia Borgini One reason companies keep legacy hardware such as older model servers, solid-state drives and networking components is the replacement cost. The number of servers needed to support a modest business would run you
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIs your data center equipment starting to show signs of aging? These performance metrics can evaluate hardware health and help you decide if assets should be maintained or retired. By Robert Sheldon Data center assets — such as servers, network components and power equipment — should be retired on a routine basis to ensure application and operational workflows continue uninterrupted
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs the pandemic continues, research firms state that organizations must realign IT budgets to support projects that maintain operations and put nonessential initiatives on hold. By Meredith Courtemanche The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted 2020 IT infrastructure spending and projects across all types of industries. Months into this abrupt economic and workplace change, and without an end in sight, organizations must make
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Garry Kranz An SDDC (software-defined data center) is a data storage facility in which all infrastructure elements — networking, storage, CPU and security — are virtualized and delivered as a service. Deployment, operation, provisioning and configuration are abstracted from hardware. Those tasks are implemented through software intelligence. Former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is widely credited with coining the term around 2012. An SDDC
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center facilities and infrastructure to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider’s data center, using the servers, networking, storage and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider. A DCaaS provider is typically engaged by a business that can
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe tape data storage market has confronted a major legal issue and a pandemic. Buoyed by strong archival use and offline protection, capacity shipments rose last year. By Paul Crocetti Published: 03 Sep 2020 With the increase in digital work and life as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the world is creating more data. Much of that data is immediately
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Kevin Ferguson Published: 29 Jun 2020 Maintaining an inventory of your servers, devices and apps helps classify information about servers and keeps information about software and applications all in one place. In addition, a provisioning inventory provides evidence of activities the IT team has executed, such as configuration changes, capacity planning, last restores and recovery tests. The types of inventory
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs datacentres become increasingy decentralised and the security threats they face increase in number and complexity, IT admins are at risk of becoming overwhelmed as they strive to keep on top of their server farm estates By Stuart Burns, MMC Datacentre security is a complex subject that is unlikely to get simpler any time soon, particularly as the industry continues to expand
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesWhether it is natural disasters, terrorism or break-ins, datacentres will be vulnerable to a range of risks unless they are physically secured. Here’s how you can improve the physical security of your datacentre. By Nicholas Fearn Published: 24 Aug 2020 Hackers can wreak all sorts of havoc by breaching datacentres, from gaining access to masses of sensitive data to knocking entire companies
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