Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesSee specific examples of the strategies server vendors use in order to better prepare for sales pitches throughout the five stages of the server renewal and refresh lifecycle. By James Alan Miller Too many companies spend more than they should — or want — on hardware and maintenance during the server refresh lifecycle. One of the main reasons for this
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA buyer’s playbook with granular forecasts of server refresh, upgrade, maintenance and precedent discount details strengthens your negotiation position with your server supplier. By James Alan Miller Server customers often feel like they are at the mercy of hardware vendors when it comes time to negotiate server refreshes, renewals and maintenance agreements. It doesn’t have to be that way. Explore
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWhen negotiating server hardware and maintenance agreements with vendors, server customers can threaten to go elsewhere. But how effective is that tactic? By James Alan Miller Name-brand server hardware vendors have lost considerable market share to white box suppliers over the last several years. As a result, they employ a transactional game using ingrained sales tactics during server hardware deals
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlade servers and rack servers aren’t designed the same, which means the refresh process varies for each. Explore the different upgrade considerations for memory, storage and more. By Jim O’Reilly For most IT shops, a server farm upgrade or replacement is inevitable. But that refresh process differs depending on whether the installed base is a blade server configuration or traditional
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesZombie servers can waste precious data center resources — and are more common than many IT teams think. Fortunately, DCIM and other monitoring tools can stop them in their tracks. By Robert McFarlane Comatose servers — also known as “zombie servers” — occupy space and usurp power and cooling in a data center. In today’s data centers, 30% of servers
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Ben Lutkevich; Mary K. Pratt; Francesca Sales Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third-party to perform tasks, handle operations or provide services for the company. The outside company, which is known as the service provider or a third-party provider, arranges for its own workers or computer systems to perform the tasks or services either
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHere are some troubleshooting steps you can take as you determine whether the crash occurred at the hardware, operating system or application level. By Brien Posey If you are reading this, then I’m assuming that you are probably working through the nightmare of a server crash. The bad news — aside from the experience of your server crashing — is that
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIT pros must understand that their desktops’ upgrade method, workload and other factors affect whether the Windows 10 system requirements are sufficient. By Brien Posey Kari Finn Ed Tittel Published: 28 Aug 2020 The Windows 10 minimum system requirements help ensure that Windows 10 desktops are secure and will run effectively, but in some situations these minimums aren’t quite enough. Microsoft
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBackup power is essential to reduce — or eliminate — downtime. Admins can refer to industry standards, UPSes and generators to build out systems that support critical components. By Alan R. Earls Published: 26 Aug 2020 As companies must deliver ever-higher levels of uptime, data center backup power supplies gain more attention. They have also grown in sophistication, and admins can
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesYou can configure BIOS settings to get more productivity out of servers, but some high-performance settings could increase power consumption or put reliability at risk. By Brien Posey Published: 21 Aug 2020 One way to maximize server hardware is to configure the machine to deliver the best possible performance. You can adjust the BIOS settings to increase server performance. However, note that doing
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