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4 benefits of remote monitoring solutions
IT managers face numerous challenges trying to balance the entire technology configuration to meet end-user needs while minimizing risks. The status of the hardware setup plays a major role in this process, even if more organizations are focusing on applications and services than the underlying…
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5 steps to establishing a flexible hardware maintenance plan
Developing hardware maintenance strategies may be a somewhat new requirement for IT managers. In many cases, companies have long depended on the OEMs for support and, when extended warranties got too expensive, would turn to a hardware refresh. This made maintenance tactics fairly unimportant as…
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L3 Point of View: SAN Topologies
What really goes on when you plug a port into a healthy SAN switch, and what does this tell us about the ports themselves? Why isn’t it more of a “plug and play” operation? Ethernet switches set the mark when it came to autonegotiation despite…
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M&A Activity Can Lead to Support Disruption
Merger and acquisition (M&As) activity in any industry brings a measure of uncertainty to customers. IT managers often face challenges brought on by OEM M&As that create unpredictable hardware maintenance circumstances and cause confusion that makes it difficult to develop hardware strategies until new policies…
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3 reasons to extend hardware life cycles
A good hardware maintenance plan can enable IT managers to maximize the value of their infrastructure by avoiding an unnecessary refresh. However, successfully extending hardware life cycles can also create considerable risk if IT teams are unable to establish an effective maintenance strategy to protect…
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EMC CX3 End of Service Life Announcement
EMC will no longer provide support services for all CX3 line of systems: March 31, 2014 EOSL CX3-10 Array Combination Fibre & iSCSI CX3-10 Array Fibre CX3-20 Array Combination Fibre & iSCSI CX3-20 Array Fibre CX3-40 Array Combination Fibre & iSCSI CX3-40 Array Fibre CX3-80…
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Decisions Required for the EMC DMX Series: DMX-3 and DMX-4 Affected!
If you are an EMC customer using the company’s DMX-3 and/or DMX-4 storage appliances, some immediate and long-term planning is in order. EMC is ending primary support for the DMX-4 in June of 2014, and the DMX-3 will follow 18 months later in December 2015. The question facing data…
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End of Support Life on EMC DMX-4
The OEM maintenance lifespan for EMC DMX-4 is dwindling away. Though boasting a later release date than the DMX-3—with key enhancements like flash drives that had even the non-tech press abuzz—EMC is actually pulling the plug on primary support sooner for the DMX-4. Come June 30, 2014, EMC will no…