2106, 2021

Running HPC workloads?-how long until cloud becomes the preferred environment.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 21, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Computer Storage Hardware, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe high-performance computing market is growing, but enterprises that have already made large investments in on-premise HPC will need to weigh up whether a move to the cloud would be worth their while. By Sooraj Shah Enterprise spending on high-performance computing (HPC) has skyrocketed over the past decade. According to Intersect360 Research, a 10-year growth streak from 2009 to 2019

2106, 2021

Africa is a hotspot for Data Centre investments as connectivity is on the rise.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 21, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre Capacity Planning, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWe look at opportunities for datacentre operators in setting up or partnering with local firms in Africa. By Fleur Doidge The global colocation market is booming, fuelled in no small part by increased demand for cloud and internet-based services from enterprises and consumers. The onset of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has only served to fuel demand further, while heaping additional pressure on enterprises to

2006, 2021

How the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the backup services industry.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ June 20, 2021/ Archiving and backup, Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data protection, backup and archiving, Data storage backup tools, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe Covid-19 pandemic forced big changes in how people work – we look at impacts on backup, including increased reliance on the cloud, plus security and compliance vulnerabilities and ransomware By Stephen Pritchard Remote working is now a permanent arrangement for a growing number of businesses after the Covid-19 pandemic pushed organisations of all sizes to move to home working

1606, 2021

Five ways to boost systems utilisation in the datacentre

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 16, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Timeless Aricles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesDatacentre operators are always looking for ways to cut costs and improve the efficiency of their facilities. Here we ask the experts for their top five tips for reducing the operating costs of running a server farm By Fleur Doidge Top concerns for datacentre operators are ensuring their facilities are operating as efficiently as possible from a cost, energy consumption

1606, 2021

Datacentre energy efficiency: Is the time now for a big switch-off?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 16, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe clock is ticking on sustainable IT and energy use, and much more can be done to save energy, power and reduce emissions at a datacentre level. So why isn’t it happening? By Fleur Doidge Datacentres represent a growing share of global power consumption and emissions. An average user PC consumes 1.3 kWh of electricity every three hours, without even going online;

1506, 2021

What is warehouse management system (WMS)? -a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ June 15, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, CEO Quick Reads, CTOs Quick Reads, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, WMS (Warehouse Management System) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesA warehouse management system (WMS) consists of software and processes that allow organizations to control and administer warehouse operations from the time goods or materials enter a warehouse until they move out. By Jim O’Donnell What does a WMS do? Warehouses sit at the center of manufacturing and supply chain operations because they hold all of the material used or

1406, 2021

How to turn old datacentres into critical IT assets-Gartner Research

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 14, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Presentations, Partner Resources, Research Results and Trends, Timeless Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT infrastructure and operations leaders are increasingly focusing on new ideas and technologies alongside ways to deliver business value By David Cappuccio Armed with the right approach, legacy datacentre infrastructure can be reinvented to increase capacity, support new and emerging business services and reduce operating costs. As part of this approach, organisations with existing workloads remaining within their datacentres must

0906, 2021

Prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on apps, CI/CD toolchains

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ June 9, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Hackers and cybercrime prevention, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMan-in-the-middle attacks pose a serious threat to both CI/CD tools and the apps those tools support. Learn how these attacks typically occur — and how to stop them — to do DevOps securely. By Will Kelly Distributed apps and CI/CD toolchains result in an IT environment that is open to endless network crossings. Every connection is a chance for a

0706, 2021

man-in-the-middle attack (MitM)-a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ June 7, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, man-in-the-middle attacks (MitM)

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack is one in which the attacker secretly intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other. By TechTarget Contributor The attack is a type of eavesdropping in which the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. Sometimes referred to as a session hijacking attack, MiTM has a strong chance of success

0506, 2021

Web farm, Web server farm-what are these? A simple tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 5, 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, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA server farm is a group of computers acting as servers and housed together in a single location. A server farm is sometimes called a server cluster. By TechTarget Contributor A Web server farm can be either (1) a Web site that has more than one server, or (2) an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides Web hosting services using multiple servers.