3112, 2021

How to prevent and correct server cooling failures in the data centre.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ December 31, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesAdvanced planning can prevent server cooling failures, and good practices can help to remedy them and minimize the negative impact on your data center. By Bill Kleyman Network infrastructure and design is an intricate, delicate process where every decision can affect every server in your data center. Too often, server cooling requirements are overlooked, misjudged or severely underestimated. This can happen in

1411, 2021

Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise.

Staff Writer/ November 14, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data centre networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLeading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required. By Joe O’Halloran The brave new world of hybrid working is having a profound effect on the technological infrastructure of businesses. With soaring demand for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and cloud to support the

0411, 2021

Microsoft Project Silica and its archive use: an expert overview.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ November 4, 2021/ Backup Tools' Vendors, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Cloud storage management and standards, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Primary Storage Devices, Storage Vendors, Timeless Articles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMicrosoft’s Project Silica stores data in silica glass, similar to the crystals in ‘Superman’ films. In fact, ‘Superman’ already played a major role in the forward-looking project. By Robert Sheldon The 1978 Superman movie has found a home in a piece of quartz glass that’s 2 mm thick and 75 mm square in area — about the size of a drink coaster.

0211, 2021

Understanding the 5 main benefits of hybrid cloud for businesses

Staff Writer/ November 2, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud applications, Cloud architecture design, Cloud architecture design and planning, Cloud computing, Cloud computing for business, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, IT infrastructure management and planning, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWhy choose between public cloud and private systems when you can have both? With hybrid cloud, enterprises can address workload requirements, business demands and budgetary needs. By Stephen J. Bigelow Organizations are migrating workloads to the public cloud, as well as implementing private clouds in-house. As these forms of cloud computing take hold, large and small businesses are focused on

3110, 2021

What is a virtual tape library (VTL)?

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ October 31, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Simple definitions to know, Tape backup and tape libraries, Tech Definition Updates, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Timeless Articles, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA virtual tape library (VTL) is a storage system consisting of hard disk drives (HDDs) that looks and acts like a physical tape library. By Sarah Wilson VTLs are typically used for backup and data archiving purposes. The array of disks is presented to the backup software as tape. Data is written sequentially, just as it would be as if it were being written to rotating tape, but can be written and

2510, 2021

Covid-19 pandemic has underlined importance of peripherals

Staff Writer/ October 25, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe experience of Tech Data in the education market over the past 20 months has shown the value of getting the right tools into the hands of users. By Simon Quicke The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on almost every aspect of life and every customer, including those that operate in the education market. Classrooms were closed last year during

2510, 2021

Why some businesses have been struggling to get to grips with working from home

Staff Writer/ October 25, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Covid-19 Global Responses, COVID-19: Organization Mitigation Responses, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles, Working Remotely

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe look at the reasons why some businesses have struggled to maintain productivity levels, staff engagement or creativity in remote working setups By Sridhar Iyengar Remote working, whether full time, hybrid part time, or via a ‘choose your own’ work-from-home (WFH) model, has clearly become the operational structure of choice for many former fully office-based workplaces. This has resulted in

2410, 2021

Amid this COVID-19 pandemic, network performance issues are IT pain point.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ October 24, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network management and monitoring, Network Security, Timeless Articles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNetwork performance is a top issue among IT teams and remote workers amid the pandemic and can correlate with other technical issues, such as cybersecurity and hardware problems. By Michaela Goss Reliable home network performance is a top issue IT teams have dealt with amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which further exacerbates the divide in communication between IT and remote employees,

1410, 2021

How to create, share and manage a LUN in SAN storage

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ October 14, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDespite pronouncements from some, the days of the logical unit number (LUN) are not over. We look at the LUN in SAN management: How to create, share, provision and manage a LUN By Antony Adshead The logical unit number (LUN) has been a bedrock concept in storage for decades. It’s the fundamental “soft” way in which physical media is partitioned in block access

1110, 2021

What is nonrepudiation?-an expert’s explanation and its drawbacks.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ October 11, 2021/ Cybersecurity risk assessment and management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise identity and access management, Expert Advise and Opinion, Hackers and cybercrime prevention, Identity and access management, Industry News and Expert Advice, MSPs and cybersecurity, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Security, Timeless Articles

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNonrepudiation ensures that no party can deny that it sent or received a message via encryption and/or digital signatures or approved some information. It also cannot deny the authenticity of its signature on a document. By Rahul Awati Although it originated as a legal concept, nonrepudiation is also widely used in computing, information security and communications. Information assurance and nonrepudiation Nonrepudiation is one of the five