Microsoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD)

Staff Writer/ February 5, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD), Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicrosoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD or Azure AD) is a cloud service that provides administrators with the ability to manage end-user identities and access privileges. Its services include core directory, access management and identity protection. As the name implies, Azure AD is part of the Microsoft Azure public cloud computing platform. By Wesley Chai, and Toni Boger The service gives administrators the

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Optimize a BCDR strategy for 2021 and beyond

Staff Writer/ February 3, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCOVID-19 has changed the way many organizations view BCDR. Along with an increased interest in resilience, a pandemic-proof BCDR plan is likely top of mind for 2021. By Paul Kirvan In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, business continuity and disaster recovery planning and technology have evolved — a trend that will continue through 2021. With nearly a year of adapting

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SAN switch (storage area network switch)- a tech definition

Staff Writer/ February 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN switch (storage area network switch), SAN Technology and Arrays, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA storage area network (SAN) switch is a device that connects servers and shared pools of storage devices and is dedicated to moving storage traffic. By Robert Sheldon SAN switches make it possible to build vast high-speed storage networks that interconnect thousands of servers accessing petabyte-scale data. At its most basic, a SAN switch manages traffic flow between the servers and storage devices, examining

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virtual storage area network (VSAN)- a tech definition

Staff Writer/ February 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, SAN Technology and Arrays, Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA virtual storage area network (VSAN) is a logical partition in a physical storage area network (SAN). VSANs enable traffic to be isolated within specific portions of a storage area network, so if a problem occurs in one logical partition, it can be handled with a minimum of disruption to the rest of the network. By John Edwards The use of multiple,

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Remote work infrastructure requires on-prem network changes

Staff Writer/ February 2, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network visibility, Timeless Tips

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

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memory leak: what is this?

Staff Writer/ February 1, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA memory leak is the gradual loss of available computer memory when a program (an application or part of the operating system) repeatedly fails to return memory that it has obtained for temporary use. By Tekmart Enterprise Support As a result, the available memory for that application or that part of the operating system becomes exhausted and the program can no longer function. For a

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What is NIC partitioning (NPAR)?- a tech definition.

Staff Writer/ January 29, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNIC partitioning is a method of dividing a single physical Ethernet port into four partitions, or virtual ports, which enables administrators to conserve PCI Express (PCIe) slots in the physical host server. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support In addition, NIC partitioning allows administrators to dedicate bandwidth for VMs and associated applications and to apply QoS to the virtual ports, helping improve I/O

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What does a VPN concentrator do?

Staff Writer/ January 29, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Security, Network visibility

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs more employees work remotely and VPN use rises, VPN concentrators have become trendy. But what does a VPN concentrator do exactly, and how do you deploy one? By Terry Slattery Virtual private networks are encrypted tunnels that protect network communications from unauthorized access when the communications must cross untrusted networks, like the internet. VPN concentrators are one component that

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Optimal architectures for intelligent storage systems

Staff Writer/ January 29, 2021/ Application-aware storage, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesExplore the best, most optimal architectures for intelligent storage and how these systems improve storage performance/utilization to help get more bang out of your data set buck. By Dan Sullivan Brute force has been the critical lever to achieving advances in storage technology for much of its history. Making storage devices bigger, faster and denser has worked well and will

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What’s the difference between a MAC address and IP address?

Staff Writer/ January 26, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How do i...?, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Network visibility

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA MAC address and an IP address each identify network devices, but they do the job at different levels. Explore the differences between the two and learn why both are necessary. By John Burke and Chris Partsenidis Every computer or device on the internet has two types of addresses: its physical address and its internet address. The physical address —

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