Tag: big data

  • A Practical Guide to Hard Drive Destruction

    A Practical Guide to Hard Drive Destruction

    The concept of destruction has an oddly satisfying allure. Whether it’s watching a building being demolished for renovation, witnessing vehicles crash from heights, or simply the act of breaking something, there’s an undeniable fascination in the act of destruction. But when it comes to the digital world, specifically hard drive…

  • How Your Office Productivity Could Be Changed By HP Enterprise 5900AF

    How Your Office Productivity Could Be Changed By HP Enterprise 5900AF

    A server is a computer that stores and shares data or resources, such as files and printers, with other computers on a network. Servers typically have more storage and processing power than client computers, which connect to the servers to access the shared resources. Client computers can be part of…

  • Selecting the Best Server for Your Data Center

    Selecting the Best Server for Your Data Center

    Server Selection Having a better server is necessary to increase performance in the workplace. It must be the first protocol of IT professionals to assess top priorities to develop a protocol on how a server should be chosen while constructing the most efficient workloads. It is said that servers are…

  • Big Data Services: Unleashed

    Big Data Services: Unleashed

    Big Data, refers to that large amount of data that is there in individual companies to run their businesses every day. The data can either be structured or unstructured or both. The data is important for the companies as these data help the companies in having insights into the world.

  • Data Center Energy Efficiency

    Data Center Energy Efficiency

    Due to today’s constant changes and technological advances, the amount of data being created continues to grow at a rapid rate. More data being generated, translates into more robust data storage centers. Regardless of how long you’ve been using data centers for your business growth and storage needs, there is always room…

  • Data Storage Security

    As Breaches continue, DATA STORAGE and Fear of Adequate SECURITY are merging in the eyes of IT managers. Over the years data storage security has become a concept centered around protecting data while warranting its availability to authorized personnel. Usually, data storage and data security are treated as individual subjects…

  • The Definitive Guide to Choosing the Best Router for Your Needs

    The Definitive Guide to Choosing the Best Router for Your Needs

    How to Choose the Best Router for Your Needs     Remember back in the late 1980s and the 1990s when anyone who wanted to access the internet had to play the waiting game while listening to that awful screeching sound of the modem dialing the ISP? Ah, the nostalgia…

  • Data Protection and Information Security – Together at Last.

    Data Protection and Information Security – Together at Last.

    Any IT professional that spent time around a corporate data center for several years has more than likely adapted to the separation of data protection and data security fields. The division in specialties has long historical roots, but does it really make sense anymore? Data protection is…

  • Data Storage Faceoff: Tape vs Disk vs Cloud

    Data Storage Faceoff: Tape vs Disk vs Cloud

    Data Storage Faceoff: Tape vs Disk vs Cloud In September 2010, Virgin Blue airline’s check-in and online booking systems went down for a period of 11 days, affecting around 50,000 passengers and 400 flights. Ultimately the downtime ended up costing the company over $20 million. So, what is the true…

  • Data Storage Depot: The Cost of Storage Media

    Data Storage Depot: The Cost of Storage Media

    I know what you’re probably thinking, who still uses tape as storage media backup? Isn’t everything in the cloud these days? In fact, recent research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) shows that almost half (49%) of surveyed organizations said they currently rely on data tape as part of their main…

  • Are Your Electronics Poisonous?

    Are Your Electronics Poisonous?

    There are thousands of toxic elements found in every day electronics; ranging from cleaners to fire retardants. These toxic elements are in circuit boards, hard drives, cell phones and computer monitor screens. About 40% of substantial metals found in landfills are lead, mercury, and cadmium from electronics that have been…