Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNetwork engineers can use myriad network testing approaches to ensure their networks are efficient and reliable. The key is incorporating them into a regular maintenance cycle. By By Teren Bryson Enterprise-grade network testing is one of the most frequently overlooked aspects of network engineering. Network engineers often spend so much time designing and architecting the network that we seldom think
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA hybrid workforce is a type of blended workforce comprising employees who work remotely and those who work from an office or central location. This way, employees can work from the places they want to, either in a central location, such as a warehouse, factory or retail location, or in a remote location, such as the home. By Linda Rosencrance
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCIOs will need to ringfence spending with their existing enterprise IT suppliers to liberate capital for other business initiatives By Cliff Saran Gartner’s so-called bimodal IT outlines how CIOs should divide IT into the work needed to keep the systems of records running – Mode 1 IT – and new projects, known as Mode 2 IT, that focus on areas
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteArray-based replication is an approach to data backup in which compatible storage arrays use built-in software to automatically copy data from one storage array to another. By John Hilliard Array-based replication software runs on one or more storage controllers resident in disk storage systems, synchronously or asynchronously replicating data between similar storage array models at the logical unit number (LUN) or volume block level. The term can refer to the creation
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThese storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind. By Johnny Yu Winning products in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year storage system and application software category focused on Kubernetes and cloud. With more workloads leaving data centers, the best data storage and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCache memory and random access memory both place data closer to the processor to reduce latency in response times. Learn why cache memory can be the faster option. By Jon Toigo and Stacey Peterson One response to the difference between RAM and cache memory question might be one of a real estate agent’s old favorites: “Location, location, location!” Cache is usually part
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStorage and memory, while connected, fulfill separate roles in a computer. Memory meets temporary data access needs and storage retains data and other files over the long term. By Brett Cooper, Rodney Brown and Stacey Peterson The terms memory and storage both refer to a computer’s internal storage space. Memory is where an application puts the data it uses during processing. A storage drive
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhen it comes to storage media, all talk is of flash, but there are plenty of use cases where – far less costly – spinning disk can do a perfectly adequate job in the enterprise. By Stephen Pritchard Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesMulti-level cell (MLC) flash is a type of NAND flash memory that can store more than 1 bit per cell. NAND flash is a form of nonvolatile storage memory, which allows it to retain data without being attached to a power source. By Garry Kranz What’s the difference between enterprise MLC and consumer MLC? Multi-level cell flash is a midpoint between single-level cell (SLC)
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesNVMe over Fabrics, also known as NVMe-oF and non-volatile memory express over fabrics, is a protocol specification designed to connect hosts to storage across a network fabric using the NVMe protocol. By Alexander S. Gillis The protocol is designed to enable data transfers between a host computer and a target solid-state storage device or system over a network — accomplished through a NVMe message-based
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