Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHow many “nines” does your own cloud app really need? High availability is still an important factor in a cloud SLA, but uptime needs vary for each service and company. By Zachary Flower When it comes to high availability in cloud computing, companies love to shoot for the moon. Vendors list three, four and five “nines” when marketing downtime, so
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteBy Tekmart Support Team Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server. Figure 1. Hot-swap hard disk drive installation To install a drive in a hot-swap bay, complete the following steps. Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 10 minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUse this information to install a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. For brevity, in this documentation the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller is often referred to as the SAS/SATA adapter or the ServeRAID adapter. By Tekmart Support Team The ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller can be installed in the dedicated connector on the system board or PCI riser-card slots . To install a SAS/SATA adapter, complete the following steps:Depending
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to assess a variety of aspects of their desktop environment, including hardware, resource use and more. By Robert Sheldon The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit can help administrators with inventory work and IT infrastructure assessments. At the heart of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is the MAP application, which collects data
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesInfrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. IaaS is one of the three main categories of cloud computing services, alongside software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Michelle Boisvert and Stephen J. Bigelow IaaS architecture and how it works In an IaaS model, a cloud provider hosts
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIt’s not unusual for enterprises to scale their applications to meet demand, but they need to be aware of the associated cloud complexity issues. Look out for these six common problems. By Zachary Flower Embracing cloud computing is hardly a unique experience for most companies, but there’s a significant difference between living in the cloud and scaling in it. As
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCloud computing is a long way from being fully mature, but its obsolescence may already be upon us. Is the cloud’s future really up in the air? Joel Shore As Peter Levine, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, puts it, “Everything that’s popular in technology always gets replaced by something else,” be it Microsoft Windows, minicomputers exemplified by
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesIs hyper-convergence a good fit for disaster recovery? More organizations appear to believe so and are increasingly using hyper-converged infrastructure in backup and DR. By Brien Posey Backup and disaster recovery are two areas where hyper-convergence is playing a bigger role, and disaster recovery is a particularly interesting area of use. In a disaster recovery architecture, where speed and simplicity
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA hyper-converged infrastructure can support cloud deployments, but they are not one in the same; the variances in infrastructure should be noted before potential adoption. By Robert Sheldon Cloud computing has become a mainstay of enterprise operations. Not only do organizations turn to public cloud services for their application and data requirements, but many are now deploying private clouds in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesInfrastructure hardening is an ongoing, proactive way of life for CIOs and their IT teams. Here, we provide guidance to ensure that hardening is planned and implemented successfully. By Paul Kirvan As organizations continue to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, CIOs must invest in activities to harden all, or most, elements of their IT infrastructures — if
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