Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesMonitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally. By SA Mathieson “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWith more employees working remotely than ever, natural disasters and other typical DR crises present an entirely new challenge. How can businesses tackle this new set of risks? By Alan R. Earls During this the past year, organizations have shifted focus quickly toward remote work. This trend was already under way in recent years for many companies, but the COVID-19
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesManaged and unmanaged network switches differ in various ways, including control and cost. Managed switches support more granular control, yet unmanaged switches have lower prices. By Andrew Froehlich and Sudhanshu Gupta Managed switches have more capability than unmanaged switches, but they also require a skilled administrator or engineer to make the most of them. A managed switch say, a Dell
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWi-Fi is the wireless standard used to build wireless LANs, while carriers primarily used WiMax to build wireless metropolitan area networks before moving to LTE. Tekmart Africa Partner Content The primary differences between Wi-Fi and WiMax can be easily summed up in looking at their uses. Wi-Fi is the wireless standard used to build wireless LANs, while WiMax was primarily used
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCOVID-19 accelerated certain data backup trends throughout 2020. Now, with vaccines available, experts share what they believe 2021 has in store for backup and recovery. By Johnny Yu Data backup and protection industry experts see many of the trends that started this year persisting into 2021. In 2020, COVID-19 brought massive acceleration in cloud adoption, SaaS adoption and ransomware. From
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesWhether you’re managing cloud storage or a local SAN, both have issues. Compare 13 areas where SAN and cloud storage challenges can arise and find out how to deal with them. By Stephen Engelhardt By moving data storage to the cloud, businesses can focus more on the core competencies of supporting their business model. For instance, cloud services simplify the data
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Fibre Channel switch is a networking device that is compatible with the FC protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Carol Sliwa; Brien Posey An FC switch inspects a data packet header, determines the computing devices of origin and destination and forwards the packet to the intended system. FC switches come in different
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA rack unit (abbreviated as U, less commonly seen as RU) is a unit of measurement applied to equipment racks and the servers, disk drives and other devices that they contain. One U is 1.75 inches (44.45mm); the standard rack, at 19 inches, is 42U. Posted by: Margaret RouseWhatIs.com Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Rack servers and other hardware designed to be rack-mounted are manufactured in multiples of 1.75 inches and specified in
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: 6 minutesMetrics and KPIs for public cloud deployments can be overwhelming. Learn how cloud architects can track usage of compute, storage, database resources and more. By Stephen J. Bigelow Monitoring and management are central elements to any public cloud deployment strategy. Proper management helps an organization ensure that the utilization, performance, cost and even business benefits of the public cloud meet
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