Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesUPSes are crucial components to any backup power system. Use power ratings, infrastructure voltage requirements and the UPS type to guide the selection process. By Julia Borgini Organizations must invest in effective data center power systems to avoid costly downtime. But admins shouldn’t just focus on primary power systems. Backup power hardware, such as uninterruptible power supplies, is also essential.
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTo choose the right UPS, be sure to figure out business needs, power supply size requirements and how long your backup systems must last during downtime. By Robert McFarlane Uninterruptible power supply selection starts with a plan and a business purpose. The hardware’s goal is to maintain power when the utility service quits, but admins should determine for how long,
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBackup Exec, which is now under the Veritas brand, is one of the top names in data protection. If a Backup Exec error occurs, it may be one of the codes analyzed below. By Brien Posey Backup Exec has been around in one form or another since the early 1990s and has a reputation as one of the more reliable
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCOVID-19 accelerated certain data backup trends throughout 2020. Now, with vaccines available, experts share what they believe 2021 has in store for backup and recovery. By Johnny Yu Data backup and protection industry experts see many of the trends that started this year persisting into 2021. In 2020, COVID-19 brought massive acceleration in cloud adoption, SaaS adoption and ransomware. From
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesWhether you’re managing cloud storage or a local SAN, both have issues. Compare 13 areas where SAN and cloud storage challenges can arise and find out how to deal with them. By Stephen Engelhardt By moving data storage to the cloud, businesses can focus more on the core competencies of supporting their business model. For instance, cloud services simplify the data
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Fibre Channel switch is a networking device that is compatible with the FC protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Carol Sliwa; Brien Posey An FC switch inspects a data packet header, determines the computing devices of origin and destination and forwards the packet to the intended system. FC switches come in different
Reading Time-approximately: 18 minutesA storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network or subnetwork that interconnects and presents shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow The availability and accessibility of storage are critical concerns for enterprise computing. Traditional direct-attached disk deployments within individual servers can be a simple and inexpensive option for many enterprise
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesSystems that cannot be allowed to fail require fault tolerance. Learn about the systems and technology of fault tolerance and how your business can achieve it. Post by Paul Rubens, Fault tolerance is a concept used in many fields, but it is particularly important to data storage and information technology infrastructure. In this context, fault tolerance refers to the ability of
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesVMware HA and DRS are vSphere tools that provide high performance and continuous operability. Understanding the different use cases between these technologies is essential. By Brien Posey VMware vSphere provides IT administrators with several tools to prevent host failure, such as High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler. Both of these tools can help mitigate failures and ensure continuous operability of
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA rack unit (abbreviated as U, less commonly seen as RU) is a unit of measurement applied to equipment racks and the servers, disk drives and other devices that they contain. One U is 1.75 inches (44.45mm); the standard rack, at 19 inches, is 42U. Posted by: Margaret RouseWhatIs.com Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Rack servers and other hardware designed to be rack-mounted are manufactured in multiples of 1.75 inches and specified in
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