recovery time objective (RTO)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 30, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThe recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs.  Courtesy Post: TechTarget Contributor The RTO is a function of the extent to which the interruption disrupts normal operations and the amount of revenue lost per unit time as a result of

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What is cloud networking?-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 25, 2021/ Cloud computing, Cloud computing standards and compliance, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Security, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCloud networking is when some or all of an organization’s networking resources are located in the cloud. Hosting networking resources in the cloud means that businesses can create complex networks only with the need for an internet connection. Networking resources are normally hosted by a third-party cloud provider. By Alexander S. Gillis Cloud networking focuses on the ability for a cloud customer

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iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 24, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesISCSI is a transport layer protocol that describes how Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) packets should be transported over a TCP/IP network. By Dave Raffo and Rich Castagna ISCSI, which stands for Internet Small Computer System Interface, works on top of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and allows the SCSI command to be sent end-to-end over local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs)

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block storage-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 24, 2021/ 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

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlock storage is an approach to data storage in which each storage volume acts as an individual hard drive that is configured by the storage administrator. In the block storage model, data is saved to the storage media in fixed-sized chunks called blocks. Each block is associated with a unique address, and the address is the only metadata assigned to each block. 

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Island hopping attack. What are these and how do they work?

Staff Writer/ March 21, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Hackers and cybercrime prevention, Industry News and Expert Advice, MSPs and cybersecurity, Security, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesHackers know better than to directly attack a well-defended target; learn how they use island hopping attack strategies to elude defenders — and how best to repel them. By Peter Loshin Threat actors targeting large organizations — even ones with effective cybersecurity defenses — will go to any length to get in. Even when the targeted organization does a good

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storage virtualization-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays, Software-defined storage, Storage virtualization, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesStorage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device — or pool of available storage capacity — that is managed from a central console. The technology relies on software to identify available storage capacity from physical devices and to then aggregate that capacity as a pool of storage

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JBOD (just a bunch of disks)-explained

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteJBOD (which stands for “just a bunch of disks”) generally refers to a collection of hard disks that have not been configured to act as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array. By Brien Posey RAID arrays write data across multiple disks as a way of storing data redundantly (to achieve fault tolerance) or to stripe data across multiple disks to get better performance than any one disk could

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