Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCritical infrastructure calls for redundancy in the form of N+1 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. Here are some handy N+1 UPS design tips. By Robin Roy N+1 redundancy (or parallel redundancy) is a safeguard to ensure a UPS system’s availability in the event of component failure — especially in a tier 2 or a tier 3 datacenter. When considering an
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDemilitarized zone, network access control and VPN termination points are some of the on-premises components that need to be addressed in a remote work infrastructure. By David Jacobs At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the stay-at-home orders came quickly and with minimal warning. Chances are you turned off the office lights, locked the door and headed home. Maybe you
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesNetwork design tools help architects map out the company infrastructure but only with the right product. Explore these eight vendors and their tools to make the right buy. By Andrew Froehlich Network architects must have the right tools on hand to create a manual network diagram. While automated tools can dynamically build maps of existing network infrastructures, architects use vector graphic tools
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesPredictably, some 2019 forecasts of what disaster recovery might look like in 2020 didn’t quite hit the mark. However, funding and cybersecurity were evergreen concerns. By Alan R. Earls Disaster recovery strategies have had to change drastically from expectations in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic presented many disaster recovery challenges for teams in 2020, as remote work became the norm. At
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesSecurity audits, evaluations of tools and looking realistically at trending technologies are some ways an organization can ensure its network security is the best it can be. By Michaela Goss Contrary to what some professionals might assume, remote work can help enhance an organization’s network security strategy. When most organizations were forced into a work-from-home model due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesMonitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally. By SA Mathieson “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSome of the infrastructure components behind slow performance include CPU, memory and networking. These tips will help you find and eliminate those bottlenecks. By Brian Kirsch When it comes to bottlenecks, the big four that always come to mind are CPU, memory, network and storage. Since these are typically the infrastructure pieces that make up a virtual environment, it stands
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAdministrators can get more out of their servers by overcommitting CPU resources and balancing VM distribution. By Brian Kirsch One of the great things about virtualization is the ability to abstract and share resources. This abstraction also enables the overcommitment of resources — a practice that describes provisioning more logical resources than is physically available. Not all servers within a
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAn effective data sanitization process lessens the chance that your organization’s valuable data could be stolen or compromised, and enhances compliance. By Paul Kirvan As part of your data storage and retention activities, you occasionally must completely remove data from storage media, and might even destroy the media on which data is stored. Data sanitization is the process of totally
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBusiness impact analysis (BIA) is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Carol Sliwa A BIA is an essential component of an organization’s business continuance plan. It includes an exploratory component to reveal any vulnerabilities and a planning component to develop
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