Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesGreenLake allows users to pay only for the IT resources they use. Find out how it works for HCI, composable infrastructure and other purposes, its benefits and potential drawbacks. By Robert Sheldon IT teams have had two primary options for implementing workloads over the past few years: maintain infrastructure on premises — incurring the costs and overhead that comes with
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe types of DDoS attacks organizations face have grown and size of these attacks has increased. Expert Michael Cobb explains how to secure systems against common DDoS methods. By Michael Cobb A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain access. There are different types of DDoS
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesData replication can play a big role in a disaster recovery plan, so make sure you’re familiar with the different types of replication and where they work best. By Dave Raffo Erin Sullivan Data replication is the process of copying data from one location to another so you have multiple up-to-date copies. For disaster recovery, replication usually occurs between a
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe reasons for going hyper-converged vary. Often, however, organizations deploy HCI technology to effectively address one or more of the five issues outlined in this article. By Brien Posey There are a number of different use cases for hyper-converged infrastructure systems, but it is sometimes difficult to separate the marketing hype from real-world best practices. While there may not be
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAdministrators who build a server monitoring framework with PowerShell can develop their own customized checks for deeper insights into their environment. By Adam Bertram As your server inventory expands, you will need assistance to ensure you can head off any problems. There are many server monitoring and reporting options in the market, but certain situations may call for a lightweight
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCloud-delivered communications are the backbone of many organizations. Review the key terms around CPaaS platform features and development tools with this glossary. By Micah Levine Every organization relies on communication tools, such as voice, messaging and video, but building a communications platform from the ground up takes a lot of time, resources and maintenance. For organizations that don’t wish to
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Carol Sliwa Seagate Technology LLC and Micron Technology Inc. today unveiled a 12 Gbps Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that offers capacity options of up to 4 TB and endurance choices to suit write-intensive, read-intensive and mixed-use application workloads. The SAS SSD, which ships this month, is the first product resulting from the strategic alliance that Seagate and Micron forged in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive) is a NAND flash-based storage or caching device designed to fit in the same slot as a hard disk drive (HDD) and use the SAS interface to connect to the host computer. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): James Alan Miller and Carol Sliwa The most common drive form factors for a SAS SSD are 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch. SAS SSD bandwidth
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disk array, also called a storage array, is a data storage system used for block-based storage, file-based storage or object storage. The term is used to describe dedicated storage hardware that contains spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Dave Raffo and Sonia Lelii Arrays combine a series of drives into one system that can store
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesMicrosoft is banning weak passwords on many of its services with the Smart Password Lockout feature. Expert Michael Cobb explains how it works, and if it will be beneficial. By Michael Cobb Microsoft recently announced that it would begin banning weak passwords for a variety of its services and also introduced a feature called Smart Password Lockout to prevent attackers from guessing
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