Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesThe main types of network cables are coax, fiber optics, and shielded and unshielded twisted pair. As enterprises deploy new technologies, it’s critical to select the right cables. ByChris Partsenidis and David Jacobs Selecting cables is a crucial part of network design. Required data rate, cost and distance all dictate the range of choices for each connection. Some connections require
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLeading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required. By Joe O’Halloran The brave new world of hybrid working is having a profound effect on the technological infrastructure of businesses. With soaring demand for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and cloud to support the
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesCovid-19 has led to many people reassessing their priorities so customer experience needs to adapt to meet new expectations. By Cliff Saran The Covid-19 pandemic forced people to reassess their priorities and what they value most in their lives. While there is a slow recovery to the pre-pandemic norm, there is also a growing sense that there are a number
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMicrosoft’s Project Silica stores data in silica glass, similar to the crystals in ‘Superman’ films. In fact, ‘Superman’ already played a major role in the forward-looking project. By Robert Sheldon The 1978 Superman movie has found a home in a piece of quartz glass that’s 2 mm thick and 75 mm square in area — about the size of a drink coaster.
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesECC (and parity) memory modules have a chip count divisible by three or five. … Non-ECC (also called non-parity) modules do not have this error-detecting feature. Any chip count not divisible by three or five indicates a non-parity memory module. By Tekmart Enterprise Support By far and large, RAM today comes in the form of DRAM with DDR, DDR2, DDR3,
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe vFlash features of iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller onDell PowerEdge servers. By Tekmart Enterprise Support vFLash is an SD card on the server’s front panel and it is connected to and controlled by the iDRAC. Itemulates USB flash storage to the operating system (OS), but its content can be updated remotelythrough the iDRAC network. Some of the applications of vFlash
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHitachi Vantara launched new VSP 5000 models and added storage options to its E Series. The products may help enable storage consolidation for customers. By Adam Armstrong Hitachi Vantara has expanded its storage portfolio with new Virtual Storage Platform 5000 models that dramatically speed up throughout and performance and added new storage options to its E-Series platform. The storage vendor,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNonrepudiation ensures that no party can deny that it sent or received a message via encryption and/or digital signatures or approved some information. It also cannot deny the authenticity of its signature on a document. By Rahul Awati Although it originated as a legal concept, nonrepudiation is also widely used in computing, information security and communications. Information assurance and nonrepudiation Nonrepudiation is one of the five
Reading Time-approximately: 14 minutesEdge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible. By Stephen J. Bigelow Edge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe chipmaker says one issue for Windows 11 users is causing the L3 cache latency of its CPUs to roughly triple, slowing down latency-sensitive applications by 3-5 percent. For PC games that are commonly played for esports activities, the performance impact can be much worse: a 10-15 percent reduction. By Dylan Martin AMD is warning that its CPUs may take a
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