The choice: Replacing vs. maintaining legacy data center systems.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 3, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Legacy Data Center Systems, Legacy Products, Return on Investment (ROI)

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs CIOs embrace more digital technologies, it’s important that they determine the current status of their legacy systems and whether it’s worth upgrading or maintaining them. By Mary K. Pratt Veteran IT leader and CIO at Absolute Software Dianne Lapierre has seen technology come and go. In many cases, she said it was clear when the tech needed an upgrade;

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The hidden costs of maintaining data center legacy systems.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 3, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, CIO Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Legacy Data Center Systems, Legacy Products, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesOne of the main factors when deciding whether to keep or replace legacy systems is determining the cost. Here we dive into five of the hidden costs CIOs should be aware of today. By John Burke CIOs are caught up in a constant need to balance old and new technology, systems and processes. On the one hand, to embrace the

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Key storage choices: Cloud vs tape for archive storage?

Staff Writer/ April 1, 2021/ Archiving and backup, Backup and Archival Tools, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Legacy Products, Tape backup and tape libraries, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesTape still has benefits, such as an ‘air gap’ that can insulate archives from threats to data integrity. But what are the opportunities for cloud in tape’s traditional use cases? By Stephen Pritchard Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is

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