Minimize downtime during a data center upgrade

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEnd users don’t want their productivity interrupted by IT maintenance. With the right technology, testing and planning, you can reduce or eliminate downtime in the data center. By Brien Posey Hardware and software data center upgrades are an inevitable part of operations, but you can take measures to ensure that they do not result in any data center downtime. The

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Decrease legacy hardware security gaps

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, IT infrastructure management and planning, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDated infrastructure poses security threats to organizations — especially with the amount of sensitive data used today. Address these concerns with active inventory audits. By Julia Borgini One reason companies keep legacy hardware such as older model servers, solid-state drives and networking components is the replacement cost. The number of servers needed to support a modest business would run you

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SDDC (software-defined data center)-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ About SDDC (software-defined data center), Datacenter Infrastructure News, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Garry Kranz An SDDC (software-defined data center) is a data storage facility in which all infrastructure elements — networking, storage, CPU and security — are virtualized and delivered as a service. Deployment, operation, provisioning and configuration are abstracted from hardware. Those tasks are implemented through software intelligence. Former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is widely credited with coining the term around 2012. An SDDC

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data center as a service (DCaaS)-a tech definition

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ About data center as a service (DCaaS), Datacenter Infrastructure News, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Tech Acronyms and Initialisms, Tech Definitions, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPosted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Stephen J. Bigelow Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center facilities and infrastructure to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider’s data center, using the servers, networking, storage and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider. A DCaaS provider is typically engaged by a business that can

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Top 2020 data center industry trends include edge, private cloud

T-Blog Editor/ September 10, 2020/ Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIT infrastructure isn’t just an on-premises data center anymore. The ‘2020 State of the Data Center’ report shows growing interest in private cloud, edge and colocation. ByJessica Lulka Published: 08 Sep 2020 Video killed the radio star, but cloud won’t kill the data center. IT resources continue to grow as organizations generate large amounts of data and find new ways to

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