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Enterprise-class Storage Doesn't Have to Break the Bank

Data growth is increasing rapidly, putting pressure on storage infrastructures. Organizations are being urged to reduce storage costs. SMBs, small to medium-sized businesses, often attempt to reduce costs by using consumer-grade storage. However this is risky. It will reduce costs in the short term but it can lead to higher operating and downtime costs later on. Simply put, consumer grade technology is designed for consumer-grade workloads. Consumer-grade hard drives can handle a limit of 25TB in annual workloads, which is far lower than the 500TB limit for enterprise-grade drives. Failure rates are unsurprisingly high when consumer-grade drives get plugged into arrays and put to heavy data center workloads. Another important difference is the constant-on nature and operation of the business environment. The data center storage arrays are always powered up and rarely go down for long periods of time. They are frequently involved in maintenance tasks such as error detection, backup, and...

How to Upgrade Your Wireless Access Points

Are your wireless access point's outdated and in need of an upgrade? Do you not know which brand/model to choose? You should consider several things when upgrading your wireless access point. Speed and performance requirements are two of the most important things to consider when upgrading your wireless environment. To avoid upgrading again, you should plan for 5-10 years. Also consider the number of users the access points will support and the type of applications that will be running on them. Some applications are more demanding than others, such as video or gaming apps. What kind of devices will connect to them? In the future, there will be more mobile devices than ever before, especially with the Internet of Thing devices. Every person could already own at least 3-5 devices (i.e. laptop, iPhone or Kindle, and other IoT gadgets). These numbers are increasing so ensure your new wireless devices have sufficient bandwidth to support all of these devices. There are many vendors that...