Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA drop-off in revenues in the first quarter is a feature of a cyclical market and should not concern the channel too much. By Simon Quicke Sales of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) might have dropped in the first quarter, but the expectation is that things will bounce back as customer demand returns. An analysis of the IaaS market from Context,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCPUs have evolved to meet ever-increasing technology demands. We look at the way performance and power characteristics have shifted in recent years. By Brien Posey When purchasing server hardware, organizations have always had to decide on CPU type. In the early days, this decision might have been as simple as choosing between an Intel or AMD processor. There are now
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesSelecting the right CPU for virtual infrastructures depends on many factors, including feature sets and hardware specs. Proper configuration of processor resources is also crucial. By Ryann Burnett Choosing a CPU for virtualization and configuring it properly are just as important as choosing memory, storage and network resources. A processor that doesn’t make sense for the infrastructure or one that’s
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStorage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right. By Antony Adshead With the rapidly rising cost of energy, the idea of green storage has regained some traction. While going green and reducing the carbon footprint has been a background theme of recent years, it’s clear datacentre
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThis checklist offers guidance on how to prepare for a zero-trust cybersecurity audit and helps document how well cybersecurity controls are performing based on CISA’s ZTMM. By Paul Kirvan The CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model is a framework for organizations in the public and private sectors designed to strengthen efforts to prevent unauthorized access to technology infrastructure and information resources.
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAnalysts and experts have looked into their crystal balls and made their cybersecurity predictions for 2023. Is your organization prepared if these predictions come true? By Kyle Johnson A lot happened in cybersecurity in 2022. We saw cyber’s involvement in warfare with the Russian attacks on Ukraine. Supply chain attacks continued to make headlines. Healthcare organizations and educational institutions became top
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesIT services executives predicted greater focus on user training and protection, supply chain security and machine learning. And digital transformation could spark zero-trust projects. By John Moore The key cybersecurity trends expected to shape 2023 run the gamut from the human behind the keyboard to tools embedding machine learning. IT services executives pointed to security training for users, a perennial
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe Advanced Host Controller Interface and RAID are fundamental concepts for running an efficient data management and storage infrastructure. Learn the AHCI and RAID basics. By Scott D. Lowe, and Brien Posey Even in this age of SSDs, IT still works with technologies developed in the last century. These techs include the Advanced Host Controller Interface and redundant arrays of independent
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWe look at RAID and flash to highlight key choices when it comes to drive data protection. What RAID levels work best with solid state and when is erasure coding a good choice? By Stephen Pritchard RAID systems have been the building blocks of enterprise storage since the 1990s. But RAID – redundant array of inexpensive disks – originated the decade before that in
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIndefinite storage addresses the issue that archived data may need to be kept well beyond the lifespan of the technology it was written for. By Stephen Pritchard For hundreds of years, any organisation that needed to store information relied on one tried and tested technology: paper. But since the advent of computing and digital data storage, more and more data
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