Looking for a career in IT infrastructure?- a brief guide on how to get started.

Staff Writer/ September 12, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Career Management, IT Career Paths, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesLearning about the jobs available, skills required/in demand and the most popular relevant certifications/certificates/degrees as you consider infrastructure as an IT career path. By Rahul Awati IT and its underlying infrastructure power every aspect of modern businesses, governments, militaries and economies. Many organizations don’t have enough employees on staff with the right qualities of IT know-how to fully support their

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A refresher course: 7 major server hardware components you must know

Staff Writer/ September 9, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage and networking, Data center systems management, Simple definitions to know, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEven with software-based data center options, it’s still important to know the physical components of a server. Check out these terms to refresh your memory. By Stephen J. Bigelow and Jessica Lulka Servers are the powerhouse behind every data center. These modular, boxy components contain all the processing power required to route and store data for every possible use case. Depending

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How to choose a mass notification system vendor: -top vendors and a checklist on what to consider.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ September 8, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, IT infrastructure management and planning, Storage Vendors

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMass notification systems are crucial to a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. To choose the right system, cross-check its capabilities with your requirements. By Brien Posey and Paul Kirvan Mass notification systems send one-way messages via email, smartphones, office phones and home phones to inform staff and the public of an emergency. These systems contain a database of names,

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Western Digital OptiNAND stretches HDD capacity, performance

Staff Writer/ September 8, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Storage Vendors

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWestern Digital unveiled a new storage drive architecture for hard drives that improves capacity, performance and reliability via an embedded flash drive to store metadata. By Johnny Yu Western Digital’s new OptiNAND storage infrastructure puts a lot of capacity on one platter. Unveiled at today’s HDD Reimagine virtual event, OptiNAND combines Western Digital’s hard disk drive and flash technologies to

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What are the NAND flash memory types and where do they work best?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 6, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Flash storage for applications, Industry News and Expert Advice, Solid-state storage, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWhich type of NAND flash memory is best for your environment? We break down five major NAND flash options, their benefits and where they work best. By Erin Sullivan NAND flash was largely developed to give flash memory a fighting chance in the market against the competition, such as hard disks and other magnetic storage options. By cutting the costs

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SLC vs. MLC: Performance, reliability tradeoffs, how to choose what’s right for your needs and much more..

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 6, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesLearn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. By Marc Staimer Flash, a.k.a. NAND, SSDs continue to be a hot topic for IT pros. They are found in storage arrays, NAS, appliances, drives and PCIe memory cards. Flash SSDs have rapidly become part of every storage acquisition

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Where is QLC NAND the most useful in the enterprise?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 4, 2021/ Application-aware storage, Archiving and backup, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data protection, backup and archiving, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Solid-state storage

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesQuad-level NAND has its benefits, but is it right for enterprise-level companies? While it can be plagued by performance and durability issues, the technology still has its uses. By Brien Posey It’s at least somewhat tempting to dismiss quad-level NAND as a poor choice for use in enterprise-class organizations. After all, the quad-level cells in storage devices are far less

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Learning the difference between SMP vs. MPP

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 4, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage and networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLearn the differences between the main modes of multiprocessing: SMP, AMP and MPP. Each has a distinct use case that makes it suited for different data centers and organizations. By Jacob Roundy A symmetric multiprocessing system contains multiple processors that share the same memory and operate under a single OS. This architecture enables each processor to work on any task

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The differences between Cache and RAM memory types.

Staff Writer/ September 3, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computer Memory Nomenclature, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Flash storage for applications, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCache memory and RAM both place data closer to the processor to reduce latency in response times. Learn why one can be faster, along with other key variables in cache vs. RAM. By Garry Kranz, Jon Toigo and Stacey Peterson RAM and cache memory are both fast, volatile memory technologies that play a pivotal role in computing. So what’s the

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Which has the fastest speeds-NVMe vs. SATA and SAS ?

Staff Writer/ September 3, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces. By Robert Sheldon The NVMe protocol has become the industry standard for supporting solid-state drives and other non-volatile memory subsystems. NVMe speeds are substantially better than those of traditional storage protocols, such as SAS

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