Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWhatever you do: Don’t pay the ransom. Learn how the right tools and procedures can enable IT ops admins to prevent, mitigate and recover from a ransomware attack. By Brian Kirsch When it comes to ransomware attacks, IT operations plays a big role alongside security experts. They identify, prevent and — if all else fails — mitigate the effects of
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesLeading storage vendors have recently released midrange all-flash arrays that provide the scalability, high performance and high reliability of enterprise-class offerings. By Chris Evans The midrange storage appliance ecosystem is gradually transitioning toward all-flash and the adoption of NVMe technology. This market is growing fast, with the release of several new storage arrays in the past year. These include platforms
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesYou might be aware of basic HCI use cases, such as server consolidation and virtual desktop infrastructure, but there are other areas where HCI can come in handy. By Alastair Cooke We stand close to a decade after the introduction of hyper-converged infrastructure and have a more definitive answer about where it fits into the enterprise IT landscape. Like many
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat’s next for hyper-converged infrastructure? We’ve asked industry analysts and consultants to shed some light on the technology’s medium-term prospects. By John Moore Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA hyper-converged appliance is a hardware device that provides multiple data center management technologies within a single box. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Brien Posey; Matthew Haughn Hyper-converged systems are characterized by a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies. At one time, these systems were based on the use of commodity hardware, but premium
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesGreenLake allows users to pay only for the IT resources they use. Find out how it works for HCI, composable infrastructure and other purposes, its benefits and potential drawbacks. By Robert Sheldon IT teams have had two primary options for implementing workloads over the past few years: maintain infrastructure on premises — incurring the costs and overhead that comes with
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor organizations with remote workforces, VPNs can be an essential part of daily life. This VPN glossary explores the essential terms and phrases that constitute VPN services. By Michaela Goss Enterprises’ embrace of remote work accelerated due to COVID-19, and it likely won’t subside when the pandemic is a distant memory. A staple of remote work is the VPN. With
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHard disk drives could make a comeback in 2020, as new technologies such as SMR, HAMR, MAMR and dual actuators provide more capacity and speed for secondary storage. By Dave Raffo You hear so much about software-defined, cloud-native and flash-enabled storage these days that you may have forgotten all about the hard disk drive. Some observers even make the case
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHard disk drives are going to remain a key part of a reseller’s portfolio, especially as larger capacity drives come to market. By Nick Powling Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) have their place as an integral part of datacentres and servers. The amount of data generated is growing rapidly so servers must keep up with a huge space demand. The
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnergy-assisted hard drive technology is here, and heat-assisted and microwave-assisted magnetic recording technologies are about to bring even more changes to the HDD market. By Stacey Peterson High-capacity data storage is needed now more than ever, as today’s work-from-home world increases the use of cloud services, video content and image sharing. According to IDC, most of the data generated today
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