Dell data protection products portfolio keeps evolving

Staff Writer/ January 12, 2021/ Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFollow the rebranding and renaming transitions of the multitude of Dell data protection products acquired and cultivated over the past 30 years. By Chris Evans Dell EMC’s portfolio of data protection offerings has grown over the past 30 years. Now, with a greater focus on the public cloud, how can it continue to service existing customers and bring them into

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What is wrong with ITAM?

Staff Writer/ January 10, 2021/ Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset management should be an important pillar in an organisation’s digital transformation journey, but it doesn’t seem to be working. By Eric Chiu The IT asset management (ITAM) industry too often fails to deliver consistent value and protection to businesses that are seeking to optimise their IT investments, and it only has itself to blame. This is not an easy thing

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CLI vs. GUI: Find the right admin tool for various scenarios

Staff Writer/ January 3, 2021/ Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, Windows Server Troubleshooting

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesStandard Windows and Linux command-line utilities oftentimes have niche, yet important functionality not available in GUI tools that require IT workers to make custom workflows. By Richard Siddaway Server management is all about getting the job done — preferably with minimal effort by the administrator. Whether to use the standard GUI or command-line tools depends on the circumstances. Just as

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The end is near for cloud computing. Or is it?

T-Blog Editor/ November 1, 2020/ Cloud architecture design, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

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

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COVID-19 jolts tech spending, spurs more flexible vendor terms

T-Blog Editor/ October 21, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesIT spending by companies in the early days of COVID-19 quickly turned to cost-cutting. Learn how vendors responded with new terms and aggressive discounting for new business. By Linda Tucci Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the initial burst of tech spending by companies racing to support remote work has given way to cost-cutting in many organizations. IT services, hardware and

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5 hyper-converged infrastructure trends analysts predict for 2023

T-Blog Editor/ October 20, 2020/ Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Management, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends

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

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HAMR vs. MAMR, and the future of high-capacity hard drives

T-Blog Editor/ October 14, 2020/ Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Expert Advise and Opinion, HDD Technologies, Primary Storage Devices

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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