EMC Celerra NS-480 Entry-Level Unified Storage System-an introduction

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 21, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, EMC Network Storage Systems, EMC os-FLARE, EMC Technical Resources, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteEMC Celerra NS-480 is a unified storage system that brings advanced failover and fully automated storage tiering to multiprotocol environments. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team. With Celerra NS-480, you can connect to multiple storage networks via network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN), and EMC Celerra Multi-Path File System (MPFS). MPFS improves performance over traditional NAS. Move

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Developments on Solid-State Storage Technology

Staff Writer/ April 21, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 10 minutesIDC’s Jeff Janukowicz explores solid-state storage. Dive into recent SSD developments, how SSDs will continue to reshape the enterprise landscape and five things you should know about enterprise solid-state storage. By  Jeff Janukowicz The conversation.. 00:21 Jeff Janukowicz: Good day everyone and thank you very much for joining me. My name is Jeff Janukowicz. I manage IDC’s coverage around storage and

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3 ways to approach legacy hardware maintenance

Tekmart Data Center Team/ April 17, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Small Business Technologies, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBudget, maintenance cycles and specialized use cases are all reasons to keep legacy hardware. Minimize costs and outages with service contracts and emulation options. By Brien Posey All data center admins face legacy hardware maintenance. In a perfect world, data centers would be equipped solely with the most up-to-date generation of hardware. However, budgetary and operational requirements mean most infrastructure

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server hardware degradation-a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ April 17, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware strategy, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesServer hardware degradation is the gradual breakdown of the physical parts of a server. By Brien Posey and Christine Cignoli There are several general areas where server degradation problems occur, including power, temperature, management and memory. The electric components inside servers age over time, and heat sinks and fans get clogged with dust, reducing the server’s efficiency and performance. Server life-cycle

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Proxy Servers-what are these?

Staff Writer/ April 15, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Security, Network visibility, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, Wireless Network Security

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesA proxy server provides a gateway between users and the internet. It is a server, referred to as an “intermediary” because it goes between end-users and the web pages they visit online. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support When a computer connects to the internet, it uses an IP address. This is similar to your home’s street address, telling incoming data

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The difference between Flash memory and RAM.

Staff Writer/ February 1, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEven though vendors refer to flash memory and conventional RAM — the main memory of your PC or server — as solid-state memory, these two memory types are significantly different. By Erin Sullivan and Rodney Brown When discussing flash memory vs. RAM, you might be inclined to lump them together based on their similarities. While both technologies are made up of solid-state

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NVMe (non-volatile memory express)-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ January 22, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Data center storage, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, NVMe storage, Primary Storage Devices, Research Results and Trends, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesNVMe (non-volatile memory express) is a host controller interface and storage protocol created to accelerate the transfer speed of data between enterprise and client systems and solid-state drives (SSDs) over a computer’s high-speed Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Rich Castagna; Carol Sliwa As solid-state technology became the preferred medium in the storage market, it quickly became clear that existing interfaces

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SAS vs. NVMe: The future of the two key storage interfaces

Staff Writer/ January 22, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive), Solid-state storage, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesSAS and NVMe both play significant roles in enterprise storage. See how the two interfaces stack up in terms of performance, scalability, flexibility, manageability and the future. By Stacey Peterson As NVMe SSDs make inroads into the enterprise market, the question remains: What’s in store for SAS drives? While they don’t provide the performance enhancements and latency reduction of NVMe SSDs, they

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COVID-19 and remote work shift cloud predictions for 2021

Staff Writer/ January 20, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Remote data protection, Remote data protection, Remote Working, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIf we learned anything from 2020, it’s to expect the unexpected. Yet that doesn’t stop analysts from trying to predict what’s to come in the world of cloud computing this year. By Sara Grier At the end of every year, top IT analyst firms make cloud predictions for the 12 months ahead. Suffice it to say, no IT analysts predicted

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Legacy security architectures threaten to disrupt remote working

Staff Writer/ January 20, 2021/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Network visibility, Research Results and Trends, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAnnual survey of IT leaders finds network security is of prime concern as most companies continue with work-from-home policies. By Joe O’Halloran As lockdowns and stay-at-home orders persist, protecting the remote workforce will be enterprises’ prime focus in 2021. But as enterprises continue working remotely with very few making a complete return to the office, securing the remote workforce is

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