Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDon’t write off HDDs just yet. Energy-assisted technologies such as MAMR and HAMR may keep hard disk drives competitive in an evolving secondary storage market. By Erin Sullivan Hard disk drives may be considered obsolete by some, but modern HDD technologies have made significant strides in increasing storage capacity and speed. SSDs, cloud-based storage and software-defined storage may have made
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe reasons for going hyper-converged vary. Often, however, organizations deploy HCI technology to effectively address one or more of the five issues outlined in this article. By Brien Posey There are a number of different use cases for hyper-converged infrastructure systems, but it is sometimes difficult to separate the marketing hype from real-world best practices. While there may not be
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBest practices, tips for designing a hyper-converged infrastructure to support virtual desktops for remote workers in today’s coronavirus-accentuated, work-from-home environment. By Kurt Marko HCI and VDI have historically gotten along well together. In fact, one of the first and still popular use cases for hyper-converged technology is as a work-from-home infrastructure platform for serving virtual desktops to remote users, the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSANs usually aren’t configured to allow remote management. Find out what storage admins can do during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure their organization’s SAN can be managed remotely. By Brien Posey When an organization’s workforce needs to go remote, such as during the current coronavirus crisis, storage administrators must be ready to work from home, too. After all, businesses are
Reading Time-approximately: 18 minutesA storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network or subnetwork that interconnects and presents shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. The availability and accessibility of storage are critical concerns for enterprise computing. Traditional direct-attached disk deployments within individual servers can be a simple and inexpensive option for many enterprise applications, but the disks — and the
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA zombie server is a physical server that is running but has no external communications or visibility and contributes no compute resources; essentially, it consumes electricity but serves no useful purpose. Posted by: Margaret Rouse Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Zombie servers are often created because user-requested applications end up getting no use or almost no use (typically defined as under six percent). Other causes include redundant or legacy applications and services that have been replaced. An estimated one in three
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disk array, also called a storage array, is a data storage system used for block-based storage, file-based storage or object storage. The term is used to describe dedicated storage hardware that contains spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Dave Raffo and Sonia Lelii Arrays combine a series of drives into one system that can store
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesComputational and edge storage are changing the way we manage data at the network edge. Understanding the terminology around this technology can help clarify how it works. By Stacey Peterson As more applications generate massive amounts of data — think IoT, AI, analytics — the time taken to transfer, analyze and process that data is becoming a significant factor, slowing
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAsset tracking, information logging and security measures should all be a part of hardware decommissioning. Don’t miss a step with these considerations. By Julia Borgini If you’re looking to replace outdated hardware — such as servers, storage drives or network switches — you must source replacement pieces, but also take care of the disposal of your old hardware. Outdated infrastructure
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesOrganizations put a lot of thought into the storage equipment they purchase. The decision to retire that same hardware should get just as much consideration. By Robert Sheldon An important part of the storage hardware lifecycle is retiring and disposing of the equipment. If organizations do it improperly, they could jeopardize sensitive data and put themselves at risk for compliance
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