Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBecause upgrades to infrastructure equipment can be expensive and difficult, the easier decision is to renew a support contract. But delay comes at a cost, too. By Brian Kirsch A major IT infrastructure upgrade frequently lands at the bottom of to-do lists. It’s just easier — most of the time — to extend maintenance contracts and maybe do a few
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSystem administrators can recover the preconfigured Oracle ILOM local root account or the password for the local root account by using the preconfigured Oracle ILOM default password. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support To recover the root account password you need a local serial management port (SER MGT) connection to Oracle ILOM. In addition, if the Physical Presence State is enabled
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBig Tech is a term that refers to the most dominant and largest technology companies in their respective sectors. By Linda Rosencrance Their products and services are used globally and have become heavily relied upon by businesses and individuals alike, bringing up privacy, safety and Antitrust concerns about their influence and operations and whether strict regulations should be considered. What companies
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHere we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but it is also applicable to iLO3 and iLO2. Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Post courtesy of: https://woshub.com/ If you have physical access to your HPE server, you can restart your host and press F9 during the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a new line of cloud-native compute solutions powered by Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors. Post courtesy of: Harold Fritts With the new ARM-based HPE ProLiant RL300 server line, the company is targeting service providers and enterprises that are embracing cloud-native development. HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, IT managers should revamp procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but what does this mean for managing the IT lifecycle? By Sebastian Klovig Skelton Enterprises must build holistic circular economies around their operations to address every source of emissions and waste if the IT sector is to tackle
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces. By Robert Sheldon The NVMe protocol has become the industry standard for supporting solid-state drives and other non-volatile memory subsystems. NVMe speeds are substantially better than those of traditional storage protocols, such as SAS
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: 2 minutesEven a timeworn networking discipline like cabling can undergo a renaissance. See how cable management software helps organizations visualize network connectivity. By David Jacobs As a network manager, perhaps you document the connections between ports. But do your records include all the information you need to maintain the network efficiently? While a spreadsheet that lists port-to-port connections may seem sufficient,
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesCyber hygiene, or cybersecurity hygiene, is a set of practices organizations and individuals perform regularly to maintain the health and security of users, devices, networks and data. By Alissa Irei The goal of cyber hygiene is to keep sensitive data secure and protect it from theft or attacks. The concept works similarly to personal hygiene. Individuals maintain their health by taking precautionary
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