Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThese parts, which fall under HP Renew programme run by HP, is a means to reintroduce returned products back into the market. These parts are returned for various reasons. These might include:- incorrect orders, oversupply, and cancelled orders in which case the product is new and classified by HP as “Gold” product. By Tekmart Africa DC Team This Renew program provides
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Robert Sheldon Lights-out management (LOM) is a form of out-of-band management. It enables system administrators to connect remotely to servers and other data center infrastructure to monitor and maintain those systems. With LOM in place, IT teams can keep their systems running and respond to potential problems no matter where they are located, even if they’re on the other side of
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesRAID protects data and improves storage performance and availability, but it can be confusing. Read about the different types of RAID, the pros and cons, and where they work best. By Erin Sullivan, Christopher Poelker and Stacey Peterson RAID originally stood for redundant array of inexpensive disks. Today, the acronym has been updated to redundant array of independent disks. But RAID’s purpose
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThis will make an LSI HBA card originally in “IR” mode (full RAID functionality) run in IT (Initiator Target) mode with the correct firmware revision matched to your FreeNAS software and will make it act as an HBA passthrough so the OS sees the drives. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team (portions of the original post courtesy of Patrick Kennedy)
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA thin client (or lean client) is a virtual desktop computing model that runs on the resources stored on a central server instead of a computer’s resources. By Alexander S. Gillis Normally thin clients take the form of low-cost computing devices that heavily rely on a server for computation. The term can also describe software applications that use the client-server model in which the
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesDecentralized storage technology can be confusing and complicated. These best practices, however, can help with implementation in enterprise IT infrastructure. By Brien Posey Decentralization is one of the hottest trends in cloud storage. Rather than storing all of an organization’s data in a single location, decentralization breaks the data up into fragments and scatters them across many cloud storage devices.
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesDell EMC VNX is a family of enterprise-grade unified file and block storage systems. The Dell EMC VNX family of storage systems combines data storage scalability and flexibility with industry-leading simplicity and efficiency, reducing the total costs of ownership and operation of the storage system. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team Dell EMC VNX Storage System Features The Dell EMC VNX family of
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHard disk drives could make a comeback in 2020, as new technologies such as SMR, HAMR, MAMR and dual actuators provide more capacity and speed for secondary storage. By Dave Raffo You hear so much about software-defined, cloud-native and flash-enabled storage these days that you may have forgotten all about the hard disk drive. Some observers even make the case
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHard disk drives are going to remain a key part of a reseller’s portfolio, especially as larger capacity drives come to market. By Nick Powling Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) have their place as an integral part of datacentres and servers. The amount of data generated is growing rapidly so servers must keep up with a huge space demand. The
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