Backup routines are the lifeblood of information technology. Protecting an organization’s data is a computer professional’s highest priority. Whether it’s hackers, disgruntled or confused users, a fire or flood, hardware failure or just thunderstorms threatening the information you’re charged with protecting, a solid backup routine is at least a best practice if not a best ...
Amidst the growing landscape of data storage methods and functions, keeping up with the terminology used to describe the technology has become challenging as well. This quick glossary from TechRepublic Premium is intended to serve as a guide to defining common storage terms and noteworthy storage service providers. From the glossary: ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION Asynchronous replication ...
This policy from TechRepublic Premium will help you implement the backup environment that is appropriate for your company. It factors in onsite, remote and cloud operations and covers issues such as storage capacity, network bandwidth and access controls. From the policy: Defining criticality of data Identifying the criticality of data is a key component in ...
Storage engineers take ownership and responsibility for the smooth operation of an organization’s communication and storage networks. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides a workable framework you can use to find the best candidate for your organization. From the hiring kit: According to Glassdoor, the salary for a storage engineer in the United States ...
The practical implementation of effective backup solutions can be overwhelmed by jargon and cryptic terminology. This quick glossary from TechRepublic Premium can help you understand these concepts and provide a framework for learning to master the art of data backup procedures and solutions. From the glossary: MULTIPLEXING Refers to the common practice of combining multiple ...
With the sheer amount of raw data being generated by big data applications, Internet of Things and machine learning, modern business enterprises may find their conventional file-level storage systems are overwhelmed and inadequate for the task. In those situations, enterprises often choose to deploy a system known as storage area network. This quick glossary, from ...
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The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for the appropriate use and administration of storage area networks. This policy can be customized as needed to fit the requirements of your organization. From the policy: SUMMARY SANs provide manageable, centralized storage capacity for systems offering vast amounts of disk space via ...
The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for the appropriate retention and disposal of physical and electronic documents. Specifically, this policy establishes and describes how the company expects its employees to manage company information (whether electronic files, hard copies or other formats) from creation through destruction, according to applicable laws ...
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is widely used to improve resiliency, security, and staff efficiency. The urgent need to remotely monitor critical power and cooling infrastructure with DCIM is, perhaps, obvious to IT Operations teams tasked with maintaining availability of sprawling IT portfolios. However, calculating an ROI or payback for executives can be difficult ...
The role of today’s CIO is expanding and becoming more challenging. The days of managing a single enterprise data center are over. Business requirements are forcing CIOs to hybridize their data center and IT portfolio architecture by placing IT capacity in colocation facilities and building out capacity at the local edge – sometimes in a ...
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Reducing the environmental impact of enterprise IT begins with collecting data and reporting metrics to establish a baseline. But with dozens of potential metrics and complex accounting to consider along with the highly distributed and diverse nature of hybrid IT portfolios, this can be a daunting task. For many CIOs and their IT operations teams, ...
Estimate and understand the potential value of DCIM monitoring tools based on your specific inputs. Use this tool to quantify the estimated value of the software tools’ monitoring & alarming functions for distributed, hybrid IT environments. Note, the value of DCIM planning and modeling functions are not accounted in this tool.
PURPOSE The policy’s purpose is to define proper practices for using Apple iCloud services whenever accessing, connecting to, or otherwise interacting with organization systems, services, data and resources. This policy, from TechRepublic Premium, can be customized as needed to fit the needs of your organization. From the policy: POLICY DETAILS All organization representatives, including all ...