0404, 2020

How to boot into the BIOS or the Lifecycle Controller on your PowerEdge Server

T-Blog Editor/ April 4, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteTo enter the BIOS, press a function <F> key. Which function key to press is dependent upon your specific server. General guidelines are as follows: <F2> Enables you to enter System Setup (BIOS) . <F10> Enables you to enter system services and starts Lifecycle Controller (for iDRAC/Lifecyle Contoller enabled systems) <F11> Enables you to enter Boot Manager. <F12> Enables you

0404, 2020

Identifying which generation your Dell PowerEdge server belongs to in your data center

T-Blog Editor/ April 4, 2020/ Data Center Hardware, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Partner Resources, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesYou might have come across Dell PowerEdge servers being referred to by their generation to cover a range of models. For example 11G, 12G, 13G, or 14G (14th generation). Here we will explain how to identify which generation of a server you have. Starting with the 10th Generation of PowerEdge servers, the naming for the server models generally consist of

1603, 2020

2020 Trends in Cloud Infrastructure

T-Blog Editor/ March 16, 2020/ CIO Resources, Converged Infrastructure, Datacenter Infrastructure News, IT Management, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesReports of the demise of on-premises infrastructure in favor of public cloud are greatly exaggerated. On-premises data centers remain the dominant infrastructure deployment platform in 2020, according to TechTarget’s 2020 IT Priorities Survey. When asked to describe their top infrastructure deployment methodologies for 2020, 45% of IT decision-makers cited on-premises data centers. Hybrid cloud was the next most common answer