Familiarize yourself with storage virtualization software options.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ January 27, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Capacity planning for virtualization, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Improving server management with virtualization, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization hypervisors and management, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Server virtualization management tools and practices, Software-defined storage, Virtualization, virtualization sprawl (VM sprawl)

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesVirtual storage offerings are not one size fits all. Factors in virtualized storage software selection include storage type, current infrastructure and management tools. By Brien Posey Storage virtualization is one way admins can improve migration speed, host more than one array type and make costs more predictable. Yet, like any technology, IT managers must ensure whatever software tool they choose

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3 best practices for decentralized storage systems.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ November 2, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Cloud storage management and standards, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, tiered storage

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesDecentralized storage technology can be confusing and complicated. These best practices, however, can help with implementation in enterprise IT infrastructure. By Brien Posey Decentralization is one of the hottest trends in cloud storage. Rather than storing all of an organization’s data in a single location, decentralization breaks the data up into fragments and scatters them across many cloud storage devices.

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What data storage management is and why is it important.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ October 27, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data storage management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEffective data storage management is more important than ever, as security and regulatory compliance have become even more challenging and complex over time. By Paul Crocetti Enterprise data volumes continue to grow exponentially. So how can organizations effectively store it all? That’s where data storage management comes in. Effective management is key to ensuring organizations use storage resources effectively, and

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MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory); definition, uses and how they work.

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Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) is a method of storing data bits using magnetic states instead of the electrical charges used by devices such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM). By Robert Sheldon and Rodney Brown By combining the high speed of static random access memory (SRAM) and the high density of DRAM, MRAM promises to significantly improve electronic products

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Key differences between RPO and RTO explained with examples and tips.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ October 24, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Storage management tools

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe recovery point objective and recovery time objective enable an organization to know how much data it can lose and how long it can be down, key elements of a backup and DR plan. By Paul Kirvan Achieving the best results when it comes to data backup and recovery involves the use of two important metrics: recovery time objective and

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Tiered Storage;-an in depth experts’ explanation, their hierarchy and examples.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 28, 2021/ About SDDC (software-defined data center), Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, tiered storage, Web application and API security best practices, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesTiered storage is a method for assigning different categories of data to various types of storage media to reduce overall storage costs and improve the performance and availability of mission-critical applications. By Robert Sheldon, Garry Kranz and Dave Raffo A tiered storage architecture categorizes data hierarchically based on its business value, with data ranked by how often it’s accessed by users and applications. The data

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hot plugging-what it is, how it works and it’s potential issues.

Staff Writer/ August 31, 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, Software-defined storage, Timeless Articles, Travelling Techie Quick Reads-Timeless!

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHot plugging is the addition of a component to a running computer system without significant interruption to the operation of the system. By Ben Lutkevich Hot plugging a device does not require a restart of the system. This is especially useful for systems that must always stay running, such as a server. Common examples of hot-pluggable devices include hard disk drives (HDDs)

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Bare-metal cloud- a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ June 22, 2021/ bare-metal cloud, Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Public cloud and other cloud deployment models

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBare-metal cloud is a public cloud service where the customer rents dedicated hardware resources from a remote service provider. It offers the hardware resources without any installed operating systems or virtualization infrastructure. By Kurt Marko and Erin Sullivan Commercial cloud service infrastructure enables the virtualization and subdivision of compute, storage and database resources so that servers and storage arrays can

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5 types of server virtualization explained

Staff Writer/ April 11, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Server virtualization management tools and practices, Storage virtualization

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesHypervisor-based might be the most common form of server virtualization in organizations, but there are other options to consider, including hardware-assisted and OS-level. By Clive Longbottom With virtualization, the network, storage and compute resources are abstracted, so applications, services and functions are less dependent on the physical hardware. IT administrators can provide applications, services and functions with their own environment

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The top data storage and management tools of 2020

Staff Writer/ March 27, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, About SDDC (software-defined data center), Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Storage management tools

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThese storage system and application software category winners all deal with the cloud, as organizations modernize their infrastructure and leave their data centers behind. By Johnny Yu Winning products in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year storage system and application software category focused on Kubernetes and cloud. With more workloads leaving data centers, the best data storage and

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