Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT teams are dealing with the challenge of reconnecting devices to office networks as employees return to work. Here’s how your organization can overcome that challenge. By Jonathan Meyers Many organizations and employees are returning to the office after nearly 18 months of remote work. Restructuring daily routines and reconvening with colleagues are exciting elements of the return-to-work era. However,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAn active archive is a tiered storage topology/solution that gives IT systems or human end-users access to data through a common, unified file system that automatically retrieves and places that data on the appropriate storage tier. As a whole, active archives utilize several media types: SSDs/flash drives,HDDs, cloud storage, and importantly, magnetic tape. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team Courtesy of:
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteLinear Tape Open (LTO) LTO-7 Type M technology is the ability of the LTO-8 drive to write 9 TB on a brand new LTO-7 cartridge instead of 6 TB as specified by the LTO-7 format. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team LTO tape can provide years of protection at a much lower cost than other storage solutions. With Linear Tape File
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesDisaster recovery (DR) is an organization’s ability to respond to and recover from an event that negatively affects business operations. By Erin Sullivan, Paul Crocetti and Ivy Wigmore Read on to learn more about why DR is important, how it works, and the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity. You’ll also discover what to include in a disaster recovery
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe most important and often overlooked criteria when evaluating data centers is power. In this article, we will examine all of the important power terminology and calculations that you need to know before starting your colocation project. Courtesy Post: By Bob West There are many considerations when selecting a data center facility or colocation provider such as location, security, and support.
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
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat many user organisations might be unware of is that, in isolation, SLAs are pretty meaningless as an availability metric or measurement tool. By Stuart Burns The IT industry is awash with credible metrics that are used to measure performance, efficiency, resiliency and a load of other important infrastructure characteristics that are routinely used and abused by suppliers in their
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUnplanned downtime can lead to serious consequences, including reputational harm, revenue loss and extra IT costs. Use these tips to plan for the unexpected. By John Edwards Downtime is costly for any organization. Just how costly depends on many factors, including how long the downtime lasts, when it occurs, and, perhaps most importantly, whether the downtime was planned or unplanned.
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAll networks may be different, but companies have similar goals when they look to upgrade their network infrastructures. Assessing current designs is just the first step. By Andrew Froehlich Not surprisingly, the term infrastructure modernization means different things to different people. After all, no two enterprise network infrastructures are designed and built with the same business goals in mind. However, newly architected
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