SLC vs. MLC: Performance, reliability tradeoffs, how to choose what’s right for your needs and much more..

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 6, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesLearn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. By Marc Staimer Flash, a.k.a. NAND, SSDs continue to be a hot topic for IT pros. They are found in storage arrays, NAS, appliances, drives and PCIe memory cards. Flash SSDs have rapidly become part of every storage acquisition

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Where is QLC NAND the most useful in the enterprise?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 4, 2021/ Application-aware storage, Archiving and backup, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data protection, backup and archiving, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Solid-state storage

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesQuad-level NAND has its benefits, but is it right for enterprise-level companies? While it can be plagued by performance and durability issues, the technology still has its uses. By Brien Posey It’s at least somewhat tempting to dismiss quad-level NAND as a poor choice for use in enterprise-class organizations. After all, the quad-level cells in storage devices are far less

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Learning the difference between SMP vs. MPP

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 4, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage and networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLearn the differences between the main modes of multiprocessing: SMP, AMP and MPP. Each has a distinct use case that makes it suited for different data centers and organizations. By Jacob Roundy A symmetric multiprocessing system contains multiple processors that share the same memory and operate under a single OS. This architecture enables each processor to work on any task

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Which has the fastest speeds-NVMe vs. SATA and SAS ?

Staff Writer/ September 3, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces. By Robert Sheldon The NVMe protocol has become the industry standard for supporting solid-state drives and other non-volatile memory subsystems. NVMe speeds are substantially better than those of traditional storage protocols, such as SAS

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Looking for PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0 to boost storage performance

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 3, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, NVMe over Fabrics, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnterprises that need high-performance storage for AI and ML workloads can keep an eye out for new products based on the latest PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications. By Carol Sliwa Enterprise buyers in need of higher performance storage might want to start checking with vendors about their plans to support PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 technologies. The NVM Express

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Flash memory guide to architecture, types and products.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 3, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, NOR flash memory

Reading Time-approximately: 12 minutesFlash memory, a staple of consumer electronics, is playing a wider role in enterprise storage. This guide offers an overview of flash, from current use cases to future directions. By John Moore Flash memory, also known as flash storage, demands a closer look. The technology permeates a multitude of consumer products, from mobile phones to ubiquitous USB memory cards. Enterprise

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hot plugging-what it is, how it works and it’s potential issues.

Staff Writer/ August 31, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Timeless Articles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHot plugging is the addition of a component to a running computer system without significant interruption to the operation of the system. By Ben Lutkevich Hot plugging a device does not require a restart of the system. This is especially useful for systems that must always stay running, such as a server. Common examples of hot-pluggable devices include hard disk drives (HDDs)

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The differences between Type 1 vs. Type 2 hypervisors?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ August 30, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Server virtualization management tools and practices

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesChoosing between the two hypervisor types largely depends on whether IT administrators oversee an enterprise data center or client-facing, end-user systems. ByStephen J. Bigelow and Brian Kirsch The main difference between Type 1 vs. Type 2 hypervisors is that Type 1 runs on bare metal and Type 2 runs on top of an operating system. Each hypervisor type also has

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Type 2 hypervisor (hosted hypervisor)-an expert tech explanation

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ August 30, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Type 2 hypervisor (hosted hypervisor)

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA Type 2 hypervisor, also called a hosted hypervisor, is a virtual machine (VM) manager that is installed as a software application on an existing operating system (OS). ByBrien Posey, Anil Desai and Colin Steele There are two types of hypervisors: Type 1 and Type 2. Type 2 hypervisors support guest virtual machines by coordinating calls for central processing unit (CPU), memory,

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Hyper-V vs. KVM: Selecting the right hypervisor for your IT needs

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ August 30, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Capacity planning for virtualization, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Improving server management with virtualization, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization hypervisors and management, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHyper-V and KVM are common hypervisor options. Before you commit to one, evaluate which OS type, available features and memory requirements work for your infrastructure. By Brien Posey Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Linux’s KVM are capable, enterprise-class hypervisors that can host VMs and scale to the largest of workloads. These options are both type 1 hypervisors, but there are some significant

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