1104, 2021

Dell EMC adds cloud-based backup to PowerProtect lineup

Staff Writer/ April 11, 2021/ Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDell EMC has expanded its PowerProtect portfolio with the launch of Backup Service, a cloud-based data protection product for SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads. By Johnny Yu Dell EMC has added a cloud-based backup service to its PowerProtect portfolio of data protection products. The new Dell EMC PowerProtect Backup Service protects SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads. Customers can

2303, 2021

Choosing the right SSDs for your cloud: Datacenter SSDs vs. Consumer SSDs

Staff Writer/ March 23, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesDatacenter SSDs are not just higher performance and more expensive versions of desktop-grade devices. They have unique features that are critical for storage systems. Guest Post There are a number of companies who use consumer-grade SSDs for powering their business. Usually, the story goes along the lines of “consumer SSDs are just as good as Datacenter SSDs, and they are

0503, 2021

RAID, flash and erasure coding: What works best with solid state?

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, CTOs Quick Reads, Data center design and facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWe look at RAID and flash to highlight key choices when it comes to drive data protection. What RAID levels work best with solid state and when is erasure coding a good choice? By Stephen Pritchard RAID systems have been the building blocks of enterprise storage since the 1990s. But RAID – redundant array of inexpensive disks – originated the decade before that in

0503, 2021

IT services industry tweaks business models amid pandemic

Staff Writer/ March 5, 2021/ CEO Quick Reads, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, MSP business transformation, Partner Resources, Tekmart Partner Content

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMSPs and IT consultants have developed new services, emphasized cloud offerings and boosted cybersecurity capabilities to address COVID-19 and its effects on customers. By John Moore IT services industry executives agree the COVID-19 pandemic has altered their business models, but the adjustments they have made follow no single pattern. The pandemic, formally declared in March 2020, caused rapid economic contraction,

2602, 2021

Modular UPS systems provide flexible power management options

Staff Writer/ February 26, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, UPS Systems in the Data Center

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUPSes can provide backup power scalability and efficiency. Admins should consider modular setups for extra redundancy, mixed capacity modules and cost savings. By Robert McFarlane Organizations traditionally deployed large, centralized power systems to provide battery backup to their infrastructure, but this approach was often inefficient if admins sized the backups to support future capacity. The emergence of modular uninterruptible power

2002, 2021

IT aftermarket (tech secondary market)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ February 20, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe IT aftermarket (also called the tech secondary market) is an industry segment of tech resellers and active consumers that are buying and selling IT equipment outside of the channel endorsed by manufacturers. Tekmart Africa Enterprise Sales Team Secondary-market resellers are perhaps best known for providing used, refurbished tech equipment at a fraction of retail cost. Like traditional vendors, secondary-market resellers also deal

0502, 2021

5 common data protection challenges that businesses face

Staff Writer/ February 5, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Data backup security, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Remote data protection, Remote data protection, Security, Tekmart Partner Content

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOvercoming data protection challenges is no easy feat, but with a comprehensive understanding of the issues, you can develop a strategy for dealing with them. By Alan R. Earls The global COVID-19 pandemic brought no relief from the problems facing data protection efforts and data protection professionals. If anything, challenges multiplied, from a security and breach prevention perspective and a

2901, 2021

What is NIC partitioning (NPAR)?- a tech definition.

Staff Writer/ January 29, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNIC partitioning is a method of dividing a single physical Ethernet port into four partitions, or virtual ports, which enables administrators to conserve PCI Express (PCIe) slots in the physical host server. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support In addition, NIC partitioning allows administrators to dedicate bandwidth for VMs and associated applications and to apply QoS to the virtual ports, helping improve I/O

2601, 2021

Wireless AP placement basics

Staff Writer/ January 26, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Network visibility, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Wireless Network Security

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMany installers make the mistake of treating 802.11 WLANs just like Ethernet, placing access points (APs) in locations that facilitate outsider access to corporate networks. By Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Support But, from a security perspective, WLANs should be treated like the Internet — a network composed of trusted and untrusted users. This tip offers network topology and physical positioning recommendations

1601, 2021

Storage virtualization terminology

Staff Writer/ January 16, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays, SAN technology and arrays, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesAlthough storage virtualization is a term that is used extensively throughout the storageindustry, it can be applied to a wide range of technologies and underlying capabilities. Inreality, most storage devices can technically claim to be virtualized in one form or another. Tekmart Support Team Therefore, we must start by defining the concept of storage virtualization as used in this tutorial.