0601, 2021

business impact analysis (BIA)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ January 6, 2021/ business impact analysis (BIA), Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBusiness impact analysis (BIA) is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Carol Sliwa A BIA is an essential component of an organization’s business continuance plan. It includes an exploratory component to reveal any vulnerabilities and a planning component to develop

0501, 2021

Differences between managed vs. unmanaged switches.

Staff Writer/ January 5, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesManaged and unmanaged network switches differ in various ways, including control and cost. Managed switches support more granular control, yet unmanaged switches have lower prices. By Andrew Froehlich and Sudhanshu Gupta Managed switches have more capability than unmanaged switches, but they also require a skilled administrator or engineer to make the most of them. A managed switch say, a Dell

0501, 2021

What are the differences between Wi-Fi and WiMax?

Staff Writer/ January 5, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWi-Fi is the wireless standard used to build wireless LANs, while carriers primarily used WiMax to build wireless metropolitan area networks before moving to LTE. Tekmart Africa Partner Content The primary differences between Wi-Fi and WiMax can be easily summed up in looking at their uses. Wi-Fi is the wireless standard used to build wireless LANs, while WiMax was primarily used

0501, 2021

WLAN and Wi-Fi?. Know the difference.

Staff Writer/ January 5, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAlthough the terms WLAN and Wi-Fi are used interchangeably, the two wireless technologies are quite different. Fundamentally, Wi-Fi is just a type of WLAN. By Lee Badman and Tessa Parmenter The notion of wireless continues to get complicated in business environments. If you don’t know the specific wireless context or application being discussed, your assumption of what wireless LAN means may be

3012, 2020

Circular economy business model

Staff Writer/ December 30, 2020/ Data Center Hardware Terminology, Tech Definitions, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteBy Tekmart Support Team Circular economy business models keep products and materials in use, by design, for as long as possible to get the maximum value from them. A circular economy approach ensures that materials are retained within productive use, in a high value state, for as long as possible. This is how a company creates, captures, and delivers value with the value creation

2612, 2020

Fibre Channel switch (FC switch)-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 26, 2020/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN technology and arrays, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Fibre Channel switch is a networking device that is compatible with the FC protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN). Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Carol Sliwa; Brien Posey An FC switch inspects a data packet header, determines the computing devices of origin and destination and forwards the packet to the intended system. FC switches come in different

2412, 2020

rack unit- a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 24, 2020/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA rack unit (abbreviated as U, less commonly seen as RU) is a unit of measurement applied to equipment racks and the servers, disk drives and other devices that they contain. One U is 1.75 inches (44.45mm); the standard rack, at 19 inches, is 42U. Posted by: Margaret RouseWhatIs.com Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Rack servers and other hardware designed to be rack-mounted are manufactured in multiples of 1.75 inches and specified in

2312, 2020

RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and 50 explained

T-Blog Editor/ December 23, 2020/ 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

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesRAID protects data and improves storage performance and availability, but it can be confusing. Read about the different types of RAID, the pros and cons, and where they work best. By Erin Sullivan, Christopher Poelker and Stacey Peterson RAID originally stood for redundant array of inexpensive disks. Today, the acronym has been updated to redundant array of independent disks. But RAID’s purpose

2312, 2020

testing as a service (TaaS)- a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 23, 2020/ Cloud computing, Cloud computing SLAs, Cloud computing standards and compliance, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesTesting as a service (TaaS) is an outsourcing model in which testing activities associated with some of an organization’s business activities are performed by a service provider rather than in-house employees. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Ben Lutkevich TaaS may involve engaging consultants to help and advise employees or simply outsourcing an area of testing to a service provider. Usually, a company will

1612, 2020

data deduplication hardware-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ December 16, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data center hosting, Data Centre Servers, Tech Definitions, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesData deduplication hardware is disk storage that eliminates redundant copies of data and retains one instance to be stored. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Erin Sullivan Hardware-based deduplication products perform deduplication at the target rather than the source, or server. Data deduplication features can be found in data protection hardware such as virtual tape libraries, backup appliances and network-attached storage systems. Data deduplication recognizes redundant data