Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organization can quickly resume work after an unplanned incident. A DRP is an essential part of a business continuity plan (BCP). By Kate Brush and Paul Crocetti It is applied to the aspects of an organization that depend on a functioning IT infrastructure. A DRP aims
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs. Courtesy Post: TechTarget Contributor The RTO is a function of the extent to which the interruption disrupts normal operations and the amount of revenue lost per unit time as a result of
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThese storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind. By Johnny Yu Winning products in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year storage system and application software category focused on Kubernetes and cloud. With more workloads leaving data centers, the best data storage and
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesISCSI is a transport layer protocol that describes how Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) packets should be transported over a TCP/IP network. By Dave Raffo and Rich Castagna ISCSI, which stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface, works on top of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and allows the SCSI command to be sent end-to-end over local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs)
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlock storage is an approach to data storage in which each storage volume acts as an individual hard drive that is configured by the storage administrator. In the block storage model, data is saved to the storage media in fixed-sized chunks called blocks. Each block is associated with a unique address, and the address is the only metadata assigned to each block.
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAre NAS storage devices a fit for a virtual server environment? We list factors in choosing these devices, and explain their impact on your storage systems. By Eric Siebert What you will learn: We’ll help you determine whether or not network-attached storage (NAS) devices are right for your virtualized server environment. In most cases, NAS performance won’t equal that of a
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTake a deep dive into seven reasons, including performance issues and scalability demands, an SMB would want to ditch NAS in favor of entry-level SAN. By Robert Sheldon Storage area networks were once limited to large organizations with the resources to deploy and maintain these complex systems. Prices have decreased, however, and SANs have become a viable option for small
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSSDs have taken the consumer market by storm, but data centers should treat them carefully Adrien Viaud Changing consumption habits and cloud applications are having a strong impact on the demand for data centers, and impacting data center configurations as well. On top of that, storage hardware is evolving, with new technology such as U.2, NVMe and PCIe bringing lower
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesA blade server, sometimes referred to as a high-density server, is a compact device containing a computer used to manage and distribute data in a collection of computers and systems, called a network. Its role is to act as a conduit between computers, programs, applications and systems. By Laura Fitzgibbons In general, a blade server consists of a chassis, or box-like
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhite box switches and hyper-convergence are two upgrades that can breathe new life into your data center network. Learn what they are and how to make them work for you. By David Jacobs Two recent developments promise to alter the ways that compute environments are built and managed. The first, white box switches, lowers network component costs while increasing the
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