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Data Center Migration Overview: Relocation Strategies and Tools
IT systems and infrastructures rarely stand still. New use cases, shifting business needs, and technology evolution mean that existing data center performance can be sub-optimal. Such changes drive the need for data center migration, a process that can take the form of moving IT assets…
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OEM Support vs. Third-Party Maintenance
Let’s compare original equipment manufacturers (OEM) support and Park Place Technologies’ third-party maintenance (TPM).
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Direct-to-Chip Cooling – How it Works and its Effectiveness
Modern data center workloads like artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics tend to heat up digital hardware. With CPUs and GPUs cranked up to their “boost” speeds, the need for efficient cooling is acute. Direct-to-Chip cooling offers an effective, energy-efficient solution. By directly cooling the…
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Data Center Maintenance Guide – Best Practices to Prevent Downtime
In an era of cloud computing and “as-a-service” IT products, we tend to forget that somewhere, someplace, a physical computer is handling most of our digital activities in a data center. Largely invisible, today’s data centers are buildings that contain massively complex and interdependent systems…
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VMware vSphere vs. vCenter vs. ESXi – Differences, Benefits, and More
It’s no secret that using virtualization can improve IT resiliency, optimize utilization rates, and increase efficiency. However, the data center virtualization process has many variables that should be considered before forging a path forward. Once upon a time, pursuing a virtualization solution was relatively easy…
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Database Monitoring: Best Practices & Metrics to Consider
If you’ve ever waited for an airline reservation system or point-of-sale terminal to complete a task, you’ve probably heard an employee mutter the excuse, “Sorry, our systems are slow today.” If you work in IT, you probably wondered what, exactly, was causing the slowdown. The…
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Data Migration Challenges – How a Project Can Go Wrong
The Challenges of Data Migration Data migration is a critical process in the IT world, but those migrations are notorious for their complexity and potential pitfalls. Whether you’re moving data to upgrade your systems, improve performance, or meet business requirements, the stakes are high. Tim…
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Managed Patch Management – Best Practices and Why MSPs are the Smart Choice
If you’re not in the know, software can appear as an optical illusion. When you start up an application, you see a slick logo and an attractive user interface that looks so well put together. Under the surface, though, most applications are more like an…