MTBF: What it Really Means?
You may see a disk manufacturer touting that their drives have a Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) or Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) of a million hours or so. …
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Virtualization: Are the Benefits Worth the Investment?
Can you really save money with server virtualization? While every business is different, the numbers are very encouraging. By some estimates, virtualization …
Enterprise Cloud Backup Solution Review: MozyPro
Summary: Created in 2005 (and acquired by EMC in 2007), MozyPro offers business backup for individual computers and for servers. EMC also offers Mozy Home for …
Does Windows 8.1 Have Any Chance of Salvaging PC Sales?
The global PC market just took the biggest nosedive of the last twenty years, just in time for Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8.1. The new OS …
Top 25 Enterprise Online Backup Solutions for Business Cloud Data Protection
Online backup isn’t just for laptops anymore. The best modern enterprise cloud backup services are able to deliver complete backup & DR functionality …
Your Cloud Operations as — No, IS — A System of Systems
As many IT managers and CIOs found over the years, growing from one major application to multiple applications was tough in a broad range of areas such as …
The 5 Most Important Steps to Ensuring Data Security in the Cloud
The use of cloud computing services makes a lot of sense for many businesses. By storing data on remote servers, businesses can access data whenever and …
Data Consolidation Facts
Data consolidation is an important process that is used to summarize large quantities of information. On a regular basis, the respective information is to be …
Internal Threats: Employees More Dangerous Than Hackers
One of the biggest responsibilities of any IT department is to maintain a high level of security and ensure that the company’s data is properly protected. …
Virtualization Implementation—Taking It One Step at a Time
Leveraging virtualization technology has the potential to streamline processes, simplify management, and speed up system provisioning, but in order to take …
The Top 10 Trends Driving the New Data Warehouse
The new data warehouse, often called “Data Warehouse 2.0,” is the fast-growing trend of doing away with the old idea of huge, off-site, …
Cloud Chivalry – The Self-Rescuing Company
While responsibility for protection in the cloud starts with a trusted provider, companies can’t ignore their role in keeping data safe. Much like the …
The Impact BYOD Has on Your Backup & Recovery Strategy
For years, mobile devices have increasingly helped employees around the globe access important documents and emails while sitting in cab, standing on line for …
6 Important Stages in the Data Processing Cycle
Much of data management is essentially about extracting useful information from data. To do this, data must go through a data mining process to be able to get …
Four Tips For Successful Data Consolidation
Successful data consolidation can bring about a number of benefits to an organisation, and many go-getting firms are seeing consolidation as standard …
Cloud X.0 (and Then Some?)
HP’s latest announcement that it was stepping away from an Intel-based chip model and planning a whole new GENUS (not generation) of servers raises the bar …
Network Attached Storage for Startups
Networked attached storage (NAS) is becoming more and more common in small businesses that still require an effective file server. There are a number of …
A Data Centre Worthy of Any Metropolis
The internet is the current driving force behind industrialisation around the world. The internet is very important for Africa, as more governments and …
Could Cloud-Based Virtual Desktops Infrastructure Die Before It Ever Takes Off?
Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI) is the one of the hottest trends in the enterprise computing space. By replacing physical machines with virtual desktops, …
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. What’s the difference and why are they important?
These days, it’s almost impossible to read any kind of technology publication without coming across the word “cloud computing” multiple …
How to Leverage WAN Optimization for High-Performance Cloud Services
Driven by agility and convenience benefits, companies around the world and across all market sectors are in some phase of moving their business applications to …
Having the Enterprising Mindset
The mind is a powerful aspect of our body. It is the key ingredient in establishing a successful business and thriving career. It is also the secret factor in …
Emerging Tech: External Solid State Hard Drives
Understanding External Hard Drive Components For quite some time, people with PCs have had the option of using an external hard drive to enhance their …
Start Your Cloud Journey with a Cloud Readiness Assessment
As a CIO, you’re probably in the early throes of determining how best to move to the cloud. You may have taken some preliminary steps such as using some …
The Taboo Danger of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has been a godsend for the IT industry. Delivering applications in a hosted model does away with maintenance, hardware and licensing …