2705, 2021

Designation: cloud architect

Staff Writer/ May 27, 2021/ IT Designations-roles and responsibilities, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company’s cloud computing strategy. This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring. By Nicholas Rando Cloud architects oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud environments — including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. Additionally, cloud architects act as consultants to their organization and need to stay up-to-date

2705, 2021

Designation: cloud administrator

Staff Writer/ May 27, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Designations-roles and responsibilities, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBroadly speaking, a cloud administrator plans, sets up and manages cloud-based workloads. By Chris Tozzi Cloud computing is an attractive field to work in, with jobs that can pay well into the six figures. A cloud administrator is one such role, but becoming one isn’t as straightforward as you might think. Compared to other types of IT jobs, such as

2705, 2021

Designation: cloud engineer

Staff Writer/ May 27, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT Designations-roles and responsibilities, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA cloud engineer is an IT professional responsible for any technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support. ByWesley Chai andNicholas Rando Cloud engineer is a general term encompassing a few different roles, including: cloud architect cloud software engineer cloud security engineer cloud systems engineer cloud network engineer Each position focuses on a specific type of

2705, 2021

Designation: IT project manager

Staff Writer/ May 27, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, IT Designations-roles and responsibilities, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAn IT project manager is a professional charged with overseeing the process of planning, executing and delegating responsibilities around an organization’s information technology (IT) pursuits and goals. ByWesley Chai and Rachel Lebeaux IT project managers may work in a variety of industries, as nearly all organizations rely on computing technologies. Some organizations establish IT project management offices (PMOs) to guide

2405, 2021

Role-based access control (RBAC)-a tech explanation

T-Blog Editor/ May 24, 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, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesRole-based access control (RBAC) is a method of restricting network access based on the roles of individual users within an enterprise. By Linda Rosencrance RBAC lets employees have access rights only to the information they need to do their jobs and prevents them from accessing information that doesn’t pertain to them. An employee’s role in an organization determines the permissions

1805, 2021

The different tiers of disaster recovery and their explanations.

T-Blog Editor/ May 18, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre disaster recovery and security, Disaster recovery planning - management, Disaster recovery, failover and high availability for virtual servers, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and

1705, 2021

What is Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup?-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 17, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA Volume Shadow Copy Service-based backup (VSS-based backup) is a Windows service that captures and creates snapshots called shadow copies. By Brien Posey and John Hilliard VSS, also known as Volume Snapshot Service, operates at the block level of the file system and enables virtual server backup in Microsoft environments. In addition to the service itself, Windows VSS has three major components: VSS writer: Each VSS-aware application

0205, 2021

quality of service (QoS)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 2, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network visibility, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesQuality of service (QoS) refers to any technology that manages data traffic to reduce packet loss, latency and jitter on a network. QoS controls and manages network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data on the network. ByBen Lutkevich and Katherine Finnell Enterprise networks need to provide predictable and measurable services as applications — such as voice, video and delay-sensitive data — to traverse a

2604, 2021

PKI (public key infrastructure)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ April 26, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Digital certificates, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesPKI (public key infrastructure) is the underlying framework that enables entities — users and servers — to securely exchange information using digital certificates. By TechTarget Contributor The entities that facilitate and use PKI typically involve general internet users, web clients or browsers, and company servers — though this can extend to other virtual machines (VMs) as well. The word infrastructure describes PKIs

2604, 2021

CHAP (Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol)-a tech explanation

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ April 26, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Enterprise identity and access management, Expert Advise and Opinion, Identity and access management, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Web authentication and access control

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteCHAP (Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol) is a more secure procedure for connecting to a system than the Password Authentication Procedure (PAP). Courtesy Post: By TechTarget Contributor Here’s how CHAP works:- After the link is made, the server sends a challenge message to the connection requestor. The requestor responds with a value obtained by using a one-way hash function. The server checks