The largest and most important components of your network are your servers. You can line up your servers on a big table and they will work, but we recommend server racks. Setting up your servers with racks improves server performance, makes your servers easier to...
Companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are switching to Solid State Drives (or SSDs for short) in a push for greater performance with reduced operating and hardware costs. Reduced hardware costs? Yes, while Solid State Drives are more expensive than traditional...
We think this is something everybody can relate to. That computer or laptop that you bought a few years ago seemed very fast and capable when it was first set up, but these days it doesn’t seem to have the same get-up-and-go. Why does performance degrade as time...
We all have things on our computers that are potentially irreplaceable. It could be family photos on your home computer or valuable records on the server at work. But do you know what happens when you click ‘save’ on your computer? Most people don’t,...
Redundancy is great. It has a special meaning in computing. In everyday speech it means ‘no longer useful’ or ‘surplus to requirements’. In IT, it means having extra memory for backup copies of your data, so it can all be restored if your hard drive crashes or other...
