How to prevent 5 common mistakes made when backing up VMs.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Creating and upgrading VMware servers and VMs, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!, VMware ESX and ESXi administration, VMware products

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesCreating backups in virtual environments has its own challenges. Avoid some of the typical errors involving snapshots, quiescing and scheduling, and generate solid VM backups. By Eric Siebert In order to achieve the most efficient virtual machine backups possible, always make sure your backup application takes advantage of the many benefits provided by the virtualization architecture. The process of backing up

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VMware backup and the VMware snapshot

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Creating and upgrading VMware servers and VMs, Data center facilities, Data protection, backup and archiving, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips, VMware ESX and ESXi administration, VMware products

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe VMware snapshot is a critical component of VMware backup. In this guide to the basics of VMware backup, we walk you through the key processes and suggest some best practices. By Michelle Laverick Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing

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What is Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup?-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup (VSS-based backup) is a Windows service that captures and creates snapshots called shadow copies. By Brien Posey and John Hilliard VSS, also known as Volume Snapshot Service, operates at the block level of the file system and enables virtual server backup in Microsoft environments. In addition to the service itself, Windows VSS has three major components: VSS writer: Each VSS-aware application

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e-Commerce: The new reality of retail

T-Blog Editor/ May 6, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Business continuity planning, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Digital business transformation, Digital business transformation and innovation, E-Commerce, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesMany would argue Amazon is the greatest retail game-changer of all time. There’s certainly merit to those claims. Amazon built a massive marketplace of online buyers and sellers, offering a breadth of products. By Mike Leibovitz They catapulted e-commerce into the mainstream and built a robust logistics network that enables lightning-fast delivery, radically changing customer expectations. Can you imagine waiting

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The future of e-commerce: Trends, tips, traps to avoid

T-Blog Editor/ May 6, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Digital business transformation, Digital business transformation and innovation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Facilities & Operations, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 11 minutesThe term ‘e-commerce’ has been around for decades. What does it mean for today’s businesses? Not what it did in the 1990s or even a mere 12 months ago. By Mary K. Pratt Amazon is approaching its 30th anniversary, set to mark the milestone in 2024. The World Wide Web hits 35 the same year. E-commerce, the buying and selling of

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EMC, Dell and NetApp top NAS storage systems satisfaction survey.

T-Blog Editor/ May 4, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computational Storage, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, NAS devices, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Research Results and Trends

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesOur ninth annual survey collected user feedback regarding the service and reliability of NAS storage systems. By Rich Castagna The bloom may be off the rose for NAS storage systems, which enjoyed a long stretch as the darlings of data storage shops. Over the nine years we’ve been fielding Quality Awards surveys to gauge user satisfaction with storage vendors’ NAS

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Choose the right automated backup system for your needs

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 4, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAutomated backup systems are easy to understand with just a few basic concepts. Here’s what you need to know about this highly reliable and increasingly popular technology. By John Edwards Automation has transformed a wide range of formerly undependable, labor-intensive data center technologies, and backups are no exception. Automated backup systems can improve backup quality and reliability, while staff members

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Configuring VoIP on a network; how-to

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IP Telephony, Network management and monitoring, Network Security, Quality of Service (QoS)

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesVoIP configuration requires significant preplanning to meet the requirements of voice traffic. Learn the steps to take when configuring VoIP on your network. By Irwin Lazar Troubleshooting poor voice performance can be problematic if packets are taking multiple paths across your network. If VoIP doesn’t work, it will likely negatively affect business and create security issues, as workers may be unable to

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Improving VoIP quality of service; How organizations can achieve this.

Staff Writer/ May 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network management and monitoring, Network Security, Network visibility, Quality of Service (QoS)

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteWhile VoIP services are growing in popularity, issues with reliability and quality of calls remain. Learn what organizations can do to maintain and improve VoIP quality of service. By Michael Brandenburg Voice over IP services can certainly achieve the same level of quality and reliability as traditional telecommunications services. In fact, given the built-in failover capabilities in today’s IP-based voice services, VoIP services could

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quality of service (QoS)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network visibility, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesQuality of service (QoS) refers to any technology that manages data traffic to reduce packet loss, latency and jitter on a network. QoS controls and manages network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data on the network. ByBen Lutkevich and Katherine Finnell Enterprise networks need to provide predictable and measurable services as applications — such as voice, video and delay-sensitive data — to traverse a

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