2205, 2023

Enterprise on-premise infrastructure spending experiences near ‘post-pandemic’ bounce-back

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 22, 2023/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center systems management, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre Capacity Planning, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT compliance and governance strategies, IT infrastructure management and planning, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, Web application and API security best practices

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLatest data from Synergy Research Group reveals uptick in enterprise on-premise IT infrastructure spending. By Caroline Donnelly The amount of money enterprises are investing in their own private datacentres experienced a “post-pandemic” bounce-back in 2022, as shown by data accrued by IT market watcher Synergy Research Group. The analyst has published its analysis of the 2022 infrastructure capital expenditure (capex) habits

2709, 2022

What is lights-out management (LOM) and how does it relate to dark data center ?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 27, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data center hardware and strategy, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Centre Servers, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Vendors' Release News, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Server Hardware, Server hardware and virtualization, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Robert Sheldon Lights-out management (LOM) is a form of out-of-band management. It enables system administrators to connect remotely to servers and other data center infrastructure to monitor and maintain those systems. With LOM in place, IT teams can keep their systems running and respond to potential problems no matter where they are located, even if they’re on the other side of

0108, 2022

How to check, and select, the most suitable FreeNAS HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) for your project.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ August 1, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFreeNAS is a FreeBSD based storage platform that utilizes ZFS. The fact that it uses a popular enterprise file system and it is free means that it is extremely popular among IT professionals who are on constrained budgets. Post courtesy of: ServeTheHome With FreeNAS using ZFS as well as effective storage tiering using SSD and RAM caches, many users will

1707, 2022

How to recover the password on a CLARiiON and VNX arrays.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 17, 2022/ Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server Hardware, Server hardware and virtualization, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesFollow these steps to recover the password on the CLARiiON and VNX array. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team You might have a VNX5100 array and encounter a situation where it was initialized by someone in the past and you no longer know the username and password to login to it from unisphere. Follow the below steps to recover that password

2905, 2022

How to flash a HBA (Host Bus Adapter) to IT mode; step-by-step general guidelines using LSI SAS 3008 (IBM M1215) as an example

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ May 29, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThis will make an LSI HBA card originally in “IR” mode (full RAID functionality) run in IT (Initiator Target) mode with the correct firmware revision matched to your FreeNAS software and will make it act as an HBA passthrough so the OS sees the drives. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team (portions of the original post courtesy of Patrick Kennedy)

2412, 2021

host bus adapter (HBA) explained

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ December 24, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network visibility, Server hardware and virtualization, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA host bus adapter (HBA) is a circuit board or integrated circuit adapter that connects a host system, such as a server, to a storage or network device. By Robert Sheldon and Carol Sliwa An HBA also provides input/output (I/O) processing to reduce the load on the host’s microprocessor when storing and retrieving data, helping to improve the host’s overall performance. An HBA and its associated disk subsystems are sometimes

2412, 2021

The different types of network cables; a beginner’s guide.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ December 24, 2021/ Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Center Networking, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesThe main types of network cables are coax, fiber optics, and shielded and unshielded twisted pair. As enterprises deploy new technologies, it’s critical to select the right cables. ByChris Partsenidis and David Jacobs Selecting cables is a crucial part of network design. Required data rate, cost and distance all dictate the range of choices for each connection. Some connections require

3110, 2021

What is a virtual tape library (VTL)?

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ October 31, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Simple definitions to know, Tape backup and tape libraries, Tech Definition Updates, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations, Timeless Articles, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA virtual tape library (VTL) is a storage system consisting of hard disk drives (HDDs) that looks and acts like a physical tape library. By Sarah Wilson VTLs are typically used for backup and data archiving purposes. The array of disks is presented to the backup software as tape. Data is written sequentially, just as it would be as if it were being written to rotating tape, but can be written and

2710, 2021

Crucial MX500 4TB SATA RAID Review

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ October 27, 2021/ Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends, Server Hardware, Server hardware strategy, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWhen it comes to small business and home lab IT decisions, sometimes thinking outside the box helps to create cost-effective and high-performance solutions. By StorageReview Enterprise Lab Crucial just released the new 4TB capacity of the long-standing MX500 SATA SSD, which may just be a perfect price and performance mix for a low-cost all-flash storage setup. We installed eight of these SSDs

2610, 2021

Enterprise cloud-native backup benefits and use cases; an insightful explanation

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ October 26, 2021/ Backup and Archival Tools, Best practices for data center operations, Cloud backup, Data center facilities, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAffordable and scalable data protection is only a cloud away. Learn why cloud-native services are emerging as essential data backup and recovery technology for many organizations. By John Edwards Organizations that need fast, reliable and scalable data protection may find a suitable tool in cloud-native backup. Cloud-native backups provide comprehensive configuration and data protection for workloads deployed on containers, VMs and