Author: Des Nnorchiri
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How to Tell if Your Network Interface Controller is About to Go Bad, and What to do About It
With the whole world and everything in it being online these days, becoming disconnected from the internet is just about the worst thing that can happen to a person. Whether you are accessing the internet for business or pleasure, few things can make our blood boil like seeing the little yellow warning triangle pop up […]
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Backup Strategies For Data Centers
Even for the smallest scale enterprise, the practice of making regular, clean, and tested backups of essential information is fundamental to ensuring business continuity, data integrity, and security. When an organization is of a size that warrants the use of a full-blown data center, this ups the game considerably. After all, the information being […]
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Performance Characteristics To Watch On IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS, which was formerly known as Internet Information Server) is a flexible, general-purpose web server originally created by Microsoft for its Windows NT family of network operating systems. IIS supports a number of web protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP. IIS is used on Windows systems to provide […]
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How to use Wireshark to diagnose network problems
Wireshark is distributed as a free open source packet analyzer. The utility provides a detailed report on the traffic flowing through your Network Interface Card (NIC), and may be used in benchmarking network performance and troubleshooting network issues. Here are some tips and best practices, describing how. First Steps If you haven’t done so already, […]
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Modern Cooling Strategies For Data Centers
With cooling requirements accounting for some 40% of the power consumed by an average data center, optimizing the strategies and technologies used for temperature control makes sound economic and operational sense. But many data centers still rely on outdated methodologies and management techniques, for environmental control. The materials, technology, and strategies for data center […]
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Best Ways to Track IT Inventory
Why do I need an inventory? Whether your operation is big or small, it’s likely that you own a significant amount of IT related kit, but when it comes to considering what assets you actually own, it can be easy to overlook just how many items form your IT inventory. It’s not just about PC’s, […]
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Best Tips for Managing an MS SQL Server
With compatibility issues arising between various versions of the platform, and the emergence and evolution of new features and tools, managing a Microsoft (MS) SQL Server and its associated database functions may sometimes feel like playing a game of “Catch Up.” We’ve assembled some outline tips and best practices, to assist you. Full details […]
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Explaining DevOps in Simple terms
What is DevOps? It may sound complicated, but it really isn’t. In simple terms, and as the name suggests, DevOps is the process of integrating development and operations. Aiming to bring together development and operations teams under a common umbrella, a solid DevOps strategy is believed to foster good communication, encourage collaboration, and increase cohesion […]
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What we’ve learned about Windows 10
Windows 10 has been around for awhile now – almost two years to the day to be precise – and so has received a number of updates and upgrades aimed at improving the user experience. After the debacle that was Windows 8 (if you somehow missed it – it was hated by many users, with […]
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Challenges facing DevOps teams in 2017
DevOps has gone through a huge upsurge in complexity and effectiveness over the last few years, and it is now the way to integrate the various teams within your organisation to streamline operations, facilitate effective partnership working and reduce turnaround time for the development of new processes and systems. Quite simply, if you’re not currently […]