2004, 2021

What does high availability (HA) mean?-a tech definition

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 20, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesHigh availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time. HA works to ensure a system meets an agreed-upon operational performance level. In information technology (IT), a widely held but difficult-to-achieve standard of availability is known as five-nines availability, which means the system or product is available 99.999% of the time. ByBen Lutkevich

1704, 2021

SAN management best practices for optimizing performance

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, 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, SAN Technology and Arrays

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSANs consolidate resources and provide a high-speed network for storage traffic, but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook when it comes to performance management. By Brien Posey Storage area networks can deliver the performance required by even the most demanding enterprise workloads. Even so, there are several SAN management best practices that must be followed to achieve the optimal

1704, 2021

3 ways to approach legacy hardware maintenance

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Small Business Technologies, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBudget, maintenance cycles and specialized use cases are all reasons to keep legacy hardware. Minimize costs and outages with service contracts and emulation options. By Brien Posey All data center admins face legacy hardware maintenance. In a perfect world, data centers would be equipped solely with the most up-to-date generation of hardware. However, budgetary and operational requirements mean most infrastructure

1704, 2021

uninterruptible power supply (UPS)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CIO Resources, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, UPS Sizing-Data center Design

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAn uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is a device that allows a computer to keep running for at least a short time when the primary power source is lost. UPS devices also provide protection from power surges. By Robert McFarlane A UPS contains a battery that “kicks in” when the device senses a loss of power from the primary source. If an end

1704, 2021

What is SMART and how to use it to predict HDD or SSD failure.

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data backup security, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Disaster recovery planning - management, Disaster recovery storage, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Partner Content, Small business disaster recovery, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesSMART is a system that monitors the internal information of your drive. Its clever name is actually an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. SMART, also written as S.M.A.R.T., is a technology found inside HDDs and SSDs. It is independent of your operating system, BIOS, or other software. Original Tutorial (Edited) By Codrut Neagu A lot of us have experienced a hard

1704, 2021

server hardware degradation-a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware strategy, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesServer hardware degradation is the gradual breakdown of the physical parts of a server. By Brien Posey and Christine Cignoli There are several general areas where server degradation problems occur, including power, temperature, management and memory. The electric components inside servers age over time, and heat sinks and fans get clogged with dust, reducing the server’s efficiency and performance. Server life-cycle

1704, 2021

The 5 principles of zero-trust security

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network application performance, Network Security, Network visibility, Zero-trust model (zero trust network)

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesZero trust is a journey, not a destination. Ensure your corporate network is safe from internal and external threats by implementing these five principles of zero-trust security. By Andrew Froehlich Perimeter security is no longer the best option for enterprise IT departments. A far more flexible architecture is needed that focuses on users, devices and services. The concept of zero

1704, 2021

5 common security authentication factors to know

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Network visibility

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesMultifactor authentication is a security system that requires two or more authentication steps to verify the user’s identity. Discover the most important terms related to MFA. By Katie Donegan Authentication is a process of confirming whether someone or something is actually who or what it claims to be. Demand for multifactor authentication in the United States has been galvanized by government regulations,

1404, 2021

8 best practices for SAN deployment within SMBs

Staff Writer/ April 14, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, SAN Technology and Arrays, SAN technology and arrays, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesSMBs face a number of challenges when planning and performing a SAN implementation. Get out in front of an often intricate process with these best practices. By Robert Sheldon SAN systems — even those designed for SMBs — can be expensive and complex to implement. This makes it critical to carefully plan a SAN deployment. For starters, identify goals and workload

1304, 2021

The storage that IP surveillance needs;on-premise and in the cloud

Staff Writer/ April 13, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data storage backup tools, SAN technology and arrays, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesSurveillance is changing, with the evolution from simple streams of sequential images to the application of AI to video, as well as an increasing move to use of the cloud. By Antony Adshead Surveillance systems demands huge amounts of storage media. With most surveillance based around image capture, that will always likely be the case. That also means that input/output (I/O)