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It's easy, just take care of these few things:
The increasingly frequent network attacks, spam-relaying, and assorted email viruses, have focused even more attention on IT security issues recently. SWAP IT offers many different solutions for security software that helps you both protect and provision your organization’s computing resources. It is often said that security must be approached as a holistic issue, but we aim to make the securing of your enterprise's network inexpensive and painless...
Hardware redundancy prevents downtime caused by hardware failures bypassing a failure when it does occur.
Redundant power supplies - Provide a secondary power supply if the primary power supply fails.
Redundant servers - Provide High Availability solution if one of the servers crashes.
Redundant Storage Subsystem - To ensure that your data is in a safe place.
Redundant internet connections - Using redundant network access ensures that clients can connect to the data center if a network card or an internet connection fails.
Reduce downtime and create efficient maintenance operations that lead to reduce cost benefits using a rapid deployment asset monitoring solution. Knowing equipment status in real-time enables issues to be identified and fixed before catastrophic failures occur.
Monitoring your assets means knowing where a failure occurs and knowing if a part of your network has weaknesses. Notifications can be sent to the administrators on various issues, from hardware/software failure to license expiry, ensuring continuous operation even in adverse conditions.
Asset monitoring delivers reduced costs, increased revenues & better customer service benefits.
By implementing a Backup Policy, the risk of losing important data is minimized. Regular backups, stored in a secure, off-site location, will ensure minimal downtime in the event of a hardware or software failure. Data recovery from a damaged medium is problematic and very expensive, so initial investment in backups and data storage is a must both from security and from a financial point of view.
Depending on your needs, the backups can be stored on various mediums, from tape to DVDs to magneto-optical disks. The backup methods are:
- Full backup
- Differential backup
- Incremental backup
- Mirror backup
Data Storage
To ensure that your Servers data center is highly available, disks containing the operating system, databases, and applications must be supported by a redundant storage subsystem.
External disk arrays provide the best availability. The external disk array should contain redundant power supplies, redundant cooling fans, and redundant controllers. The disk array can be managed by the server or managed independently in a storage area network (SAN) using third-party software. A SAN is independent of any particular server or operating system and is attached to the servers using it through a dedicated Fiber Channel network.
RAID
Configure the disks in an attached disk array or a SAN as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). RAID has different implementations, with different levels of fault tolerance and performance. The most popular and common RAID implementations are:
- Striping (Raid 0)
- Mirroring (Raid 1)
- Striping with distributed parity (Raid 5)
- Striped mirroring (Raid 10 or Raid 1+0)
- Mirrored striping (Raid 0+1)
Periodical maintenance improves network and workstation performance and prevents local problems from spreading and causing more damage. Usual maintenance processes include:
- Physically cleaning the workstations
- Checking the state of the I/O devices and cables
- Replacing the consumables
- Checking the hard-disks for errors
- Deleting temporary (useless) data
- Malware and virus scanning
- Optimizing the Operating System (OS) for better access times and quicker program start-up
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