Getting to know, and understand, the popular Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure products

Staff Writer/ October 2, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Hyper-Converged Systems, Hyper-Converged Vendors and Products, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Storage Vendors

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesGain insight into Dell EMC’s hyper-converged portfolio, including VxRail and XC Series appliances, VxRack System Flex plus vSAN, VxFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes. By James Alan Miller Hyper-convergence integrates compute, networking, storage and virtualization resources inside appliances called nodes that easily link up for scalability purposes. For the past 10 quarters in a row, Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure products

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Types of phishing scams

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ September 29, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Email and messaging threats, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Timeless Aricles, Timeless Articles, Timeless Tips, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIT teams must take proactive measures to address security awareness when it comes to email. Learn about the types of phishing scams to mitigate risk. By Katie Donegan IT professionals know the stakes are high when it comes to email phishing security. Phishing is deceptively dangerous because suspicious links are hyperlinked within email text and can be hard to distinguish as dubious

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Western Digital OptiNAND stretches HDD capacity, performance

Staff Writer/ September 8, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Storage Vendors

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWestern Digital unveiled a new storage drive architecture for hard drives that improves capacity, performance and reliability via an embedded flash drive to store metadata. By Johnny Yu Western Digital’s new OptiNAND storage infrastructure puts a lot of capacity on one platter. Unveiled at today’s HDD Reimagine virtual event, OptiNAND combines Western Digital’s hard disk drive and flash technologies to

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hypervisor-a tech explanation including its history and benefits

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 19, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, CIO Resources, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Server virtualization management tools and practices

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA hypervisor is a function that abstracts — isolates — operating systems (OSes) and applications from the underlying computer hardware. By Brien Posey and Alexander S. Gillis This abstraction enables the underlying host machine hardware to independently operate one or more virtual machines as guests, enabling multiple guest VMs to effectively share the system’s physical compute resources, such as processor cycles, memory space and

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erasure coding-a tech explanation

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 19, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Management, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Solid-state storage, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesErasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across a set of different locations or storage media. By Robert Sheldon If a drive fails or data becomes corrupted, the data can be reconstructed from the segments stored on the other drives. In this way, EC

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How to back up your data and keep your files safe

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 12, 2021/ Archiving and backup, Backup and Archival Tools, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data protection, backup and archiving, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Aricles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIt’s important to know what data you should back up, how often you should do it, where you should store the backed-up data and how to get it there. Here are the three basic backup methods to consider. By Rich Castagna You’ve got thousands of photos, hundreds of songs and who-knows-how-many important documents safely tucked away on your laptop’s hard

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What CIOs need to consider on calculating cloud migration costs.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 30, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, Cloud computing for business, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Aricles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs CIOs make the move to the cloud, they first must ensure they have the budget to do so. Here, we’re diving into the pre-migration, migration and post-migration costs to consider. By John Burke Most CIOs are still in the process of migrating workloads from on-premises data centers into IaaS environments, whether it’s to get strategic and take IT out

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Cloudflare announces new integrations with Microsoft, others

Staff Writer/ June 23, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Cloud Security, Data center facilities, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, IT risk management, Network Infrastructure, Network Security, Partner Presentations, Partner Resources

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNew security integrations with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Datadog and Sumo Logic will supposedly make it easier for users to analyse network security data. By Alex Scroxton Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has announced a series of integrations to help users of various platforms connect and analyse key insights from across their networks. Manchester United praised for swift response to cyber attack The

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Five ways to boost systems utilisation in the datacentre

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 16, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Timeless Aricles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesDatacentre operators are always looking for ways to cut costs and improve the efficiency of their facilities. Here we ask the experts for their top five tips for reducing the operating costs of running a server farm By Fleur Doidge Top concerns for datacentre operators are ensuring their facilities are operating as efficiently as possible from a cost, energy consumption

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How to turn old datacentres into critical IT assets-Gartner Research

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 14, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Presentations, Partner Resources, Research Results and Trends, Timeless Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT infrastructure and operations leaders are increasingly focusing on new ideas and technologies alongside ways to deliver business value By David Cappuccio Armed with the right approach, legacy datacentre infrastructure can be reinvented to increase capacity, support new and emerging business services and reduce operating costs. As part of this approach, organisations with existing workloads remaining within their datacentres must

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