1411, 2020

Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on IBM System x3550 M4 Type 7914

T-Blog Editor/ November 14, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUse this information to install a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. For brevity, in this documentation the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller is often referred to as the SAS/SATA adapter or the ServeRAID adapter. By Tekmart Support Team The ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller can be installed in the dedicated connector on the system board or PCI riser-card slots . To install a SAS/SATA adapter, complete the following steps:Depending

1211, 2020

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

T-Blog Editor/ November 12, 2020/ Engage the experts, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that will update and unify data privacy laws across the European Union. GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016 and goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Trea Lavery GDPR replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995. The new directive focuses on keeping businesses more transparent

1211, 2020

12 Microsoft 365 security best practices to secure the suite

T-Blog Editor/ November 12, 2020/ Email and messaging threats, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Information security threats, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMigrating to or operating cloud-based Microsoft 365 can bring with it a host of problems and misconfigurations. Check out 12 best practices to tighten Microsoft 365 security. By Johna Till Johnson Part one of this two-part series on Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) security weaknesses examined some of main misconfigurations that cause problems when trying to securely operate or migrate to the cloud-based Microsoft

1111, 2020

Reevaluate your cloud computing pandemic strategy

T-Blog Editor/ November 11, 2020/ ‘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, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Public cloud and other cloud deployment models, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIf you jumped to the cloud at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, without much long-term planning, take some time now to evaluate your current cloud strategy. By Chris Tozzi The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, and it’s easy to see why. Cloud platforms add flexibility and reliability, which are valuable assets in unpredictable times. They also

1011, 2020

Public cloud vs. private cloud: Key benefits and differences

T-Blog Editor/ November 10, 2020/ Cloud architecture design and planning, Cloud computing, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs cloud services and practices mature, it might be time to rethink some long-held assumptions about the private and public cloud models. By Chris Tozzi, Fixate IO Conventional wisdom holds that private clouds are better for workloads that have high compliance or security needs. Public cloud, meanwhile, is said to be ideal for almost anything else. That logic no longer applies

1011, 2020

Erasure coding vs RAID: Data protection in the cloud era

T-Blog Editor/ November 10, 2020/ Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesErasure coding has come to prominence with its use in object storage and, by extension, in the cloud. We run the rule over its pros and cons vs RAID data protection. By Stephen Pritchard Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now

0611, 2020

What are the different types of cloud load balancing?

T-Blog Editor/ November 6, 2020/ Cloud architecture design and planning, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLearn how load balancing in the cloud differs from a traditional network traffic distribution, and explore the different services available from AWS, Google and Microsoft. By Stephen J. Bigelow Load balancing is the process of distributing network traffic across two or more instances of a workload. IT teams use load balancing to ensure each instance performs at peak efficiency, without

0411, 2020

How IT can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit

T-Blog Editor/ November 4, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Enterprise infrastructure management, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to assess a variety of aspects of their desktop environment, including hardware, resource use and more. By Robert Sheldon The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit can help administrators with inventory work and IT infrastructure assessments. At the heart of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is the MAP application, which collects data

0411, 2020

7 Windows Server 2019 features to know

T-Blog Editor/ November 4, 2020/ Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Timeless Tips, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server Troubleshooting, Windows Server versions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIf administrators want to get the most from Windows Server 2019 features, they should familiarize themselves with this cheat sheet of the improvements Microsoft has made. By Kristen Gloss Microsoft constantly develops new tools and features to upgrade Windows Servers, but IT administrators have to do their research to stay up to date. Windows Server 2019 offers capabilities, including machine

0411, 2020

How to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 for a lab environment

T-Blog Editor/ November 4, 2020/ Enterprise Desktop Management, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, IT Managed Services, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhile there are several ways to test new updates on virtual machines, Hyper-V enables desktop administrators to add multiple VMs to a single desktop and run tests. By Gary Olsen IT staff often need to replicate user problems or new software updates in a lab setting to identify potential issues. In the past, this required a significant amount of hardware