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Comprehensive Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

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In today\’s digital landscape, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face increasing cybersecurity risks that can have detrimental effects on their operations, finances, and reputation. To effectively protect their sensitive data and systems from cyber threats, SMBs must conduct comprehensive cybersecurity risk assessments.

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HBA Firmware and Drivers – The Storage Grey Area

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Whenever things goes haywire on an OS or application there are two areas that are looked at first: In a fair few cases the issue is founded to be external from the host systems but when it comes to performance related problems from a storage perspective the entire IO-stack is at play.

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The technical pathways of Brocade in cloud storage adoption

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Brocade isn\’t always very forthcoming about what they are working on. Obviously a fair chunk of development and engineering efforts are spent on cloud integration and enablement of their software and hardware stack into this computing methodology. Acquisitions like Foundry, Vyatta and now Connectem show that the horizon has broadened the views of Brocade. To

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2 – Creating the management landscape

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The first thing to think of when creating a Brocade storage network has nothing to do with a switch configuration at all. Its about the surrounding management landscape. There are numerous management software options available from a multitude of vendors including Brocade with Network Advisor. If you have purchased BNA then congratulations, you have a

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Brocade Network Advisor – Java memory size.

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Houdini was a master in getting out of these things. Out of a swimming pool with a Straight-Jacket on I mean. This week I had an analogy to his problem. At a customer site Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) became totally unresponsive up to a point where it just stopped.

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Why Fibre-Channel has to improve

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Many of you have used and managed fibre-channel based storage networks over the years. It comes to no surprise that a network protocol primarily developed to handle extremely time-sensitive operations is build with extreme demand regarding hardware and software quality and clear guidelines on how these communications should proceed. It is due to this that

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The first law of the Time Lords | Aussie Storage Blog

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A buddy of mine posted this article and it reminded me of the presentation I did for the Melbourne VMUG back in April of this year. The first law of the Time Lords | Aussie Storage Blog: If you have ever worked in support (or had the need to check on events in general as

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Storage in 2013 and beyond.

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It\’s comes to no surprise that a couple of technologies really struck in 2012. Flash disk drives, and specifically in flash arrays, have gone mainstream. One more technology still clinging on is converged networking and of course Big Data. Big Data has become such a hype-word that many people have different opinions and descriptions for it. What is basically boils down

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Brocade Fabric Watch – The most underutilised feature

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Many customer cases I handle are related to poor connectivity. A connectivity problem can be caused by unclean connectors, broken cables or SFP\’s. (See one of my earlier blog posts). Although the switches are capable or identifying physical issues and subsequently notifying administrators, it\’s hardly ever being followed up. Very often an acute issue is

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Save money managing storage effectively

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How much tools do you use to manage your storage environment. On average the storage admin uses 5 tools to manage a storage infrastructure. 1. Host tools (for getting host info like used capacity, volume configs etc.)2. HBA tools (some OS\’es don\’t have a clue around that)3. Fabric tools (extremely important)4. Array tools (even more

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