2607, 2021

5 steps to achieve network infrastructure modernization

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 26, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAll networks may be different, but companies have similar goals when they look to upgrade their network infrastructures. Assessing current designs is just the first step. By Andrew Froehlich Not surprisingly, the term infrastructure modernization means different things to different people. After all, no two enterprise network infrastructures are designed and built with the same business goals in mind. However, newly architected

2607, 2021

CRC-4 (Cyclic Redundancy Check 4)-a tech definition and explanation

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 26, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CRC-4 (Cyclic Redundancy Check 4), Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCRC-4 (Cyclic Redundancy Check 4) is a form of cyclic redundancy checking — a method of checking for errors in transmitted data — that is used on E1 trunk lines. By Rahul Awati Through multiplication and division processes, the CRC-4 bits sent in each SMF are compared to each other. If they match, the frame is considered error-free. Bit 1 is used for the

2607, 2021

What does bandwidth (network bandwidth) in networking parlance mean?-an explanation and factors affecting network performance.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 26, 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, Network app performance, Network Infrastructure

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesNetwork bandwidth is a measurement indicating the maximum capacity of a wired or wireless communications link to transmit data over a network connection in a given amount of time. By Andrew Froehlich and Kevin Ferguson Typically, bandwidth is represented in the number of bits, kilobits, megabits or gigabits that can be transmitted in 1 second. Synonymous with capacity, bandwidth describes data

2507, 2021

What a session key is in web browsing; a detailed definition, explanation and examples.

Staff Writer/ July 25, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Facilities & Operations, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Web security tools

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA session key is an encryption and decryption key that is randomly generated to ensure the security of a communications session between a user and another computer or between two computers. By TechTarget Contributor Session keys are sometimes called symmetric keys because the same key is used for both encryption and decryption. The session key is used for only one session. It is then discarded, and

2507, 2021

What is Remaining Rated Write Endurance in SSDs technical definition parlance?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 25, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWrite endurance is the number of program/erase (P/E cycles) that can be applied to a block of flash memory before the storage media becomes unreliable. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level

2407, 2021

What are customer premises equipment (CPE); a history and the different types explained.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 24, 2021/ Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesCustomer premises equipment (CPE) is telecommunications and information technology equipment kept at the customer’s physical location rather than on the service provider’s premises. By Katie Terrell Hanna Telephone handsets, cable TV set-top boxes and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) routers are examples of CPEs. Connectivity is established through a carrier’s telecommunication circuit at a demarcation point, or demarc. The demarc point is typically a central office

2307, 2021

IBM FlashSystem adds storage as a service and also adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 23, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Partner Content, Research Results and Trends, Solid-state storage, Tekmart Partner Content

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIBM introduces new consumption-based Storage as a Service for FlashSystem based on performance, capacity and contract term; and adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks. By Carol Sliwa and Johnny Yu IBM turned its FlashSystem focus to two hot areas in enterprise storage with new as-a-service options that let customers add on-premises infrastructure the way they do in the public

2307, 2021

Using Diskpart to create, delete, clean or extend disk partitions; a step-by-step guide

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 23, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How do i...?, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips, Windows Server storage management

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe diskpart is one of the oldest tools in the Windows operating system that handles a wide range of disk management jobs, such as assigning drive letters and deleting partitions. Courtesy Post: By SearchWindowsServer staff For basic disk operations on Windows systems, administrators can use diskpart, a command-line utility that remains useful for many different drive-related jobs more than 20 years

2307, 2021

Smart PDUs; why your data center need one now.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 23, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA smart PDU can help you monitor and manage power flow more efficiently than a traditional PDU. Here’s what you should consider before deciding whether to adopt. By Julia Borgini Power hardware for the data center provides admins with increased insight and management capabilities as it evolves. Smart power distribution units can optimize power management in data centers, but to

2307, 2021

Deep web; what it is and how to access it

Staff Writer/ July 23, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Internet Technologies, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe deep web is an umbrella term for parts of the internet not fully accessible using standard search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. By Andy Patrizio The contents of the deep web range from pages that were not indexed by search engines, paywalled sites, private databases and the dark web. Every search engine uses bots to crawl the web and add