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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…
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Data Center Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling – Which is Best?
If you speak with people who work in IT, they may describe the environment in a data center as being uncomfortably cold. This is often true because most data centers run powerful air conditioners to cool down computer hardware, which generates a lot of heat….
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Modular Data Centers: What They Are and What They Aren’t
So, you need a data center, and using the cloud or a co-location facility just isn’t an option. What are your choices? You can build one from the ground up, at a cost of between $7 million and $12 million per megawatt—a process that can…
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Data Center Smart Hands – Advantages and Differences to Remote Hands
When you deploy your IT infrastructure to a data center, unless you’re in the same building as that data center, you’re probably going to need some remote help. For instance, if you need to swap out a hard drive, even if the data center is…