Category Archives: Storage And Backup

ESXi 5.1: Using Raw Device Mappings (RDM) on an HP Microserver

Posted on October 11, 2012 by tino

Having some spare time on my hands I decided to investigate the performance differences between presenting local storage as a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) and as a VMFS formatted datastore on my testbed server at home.  The server and disk … Continue reading →

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New Branch Office Case Study

Posted on January 24, 2012 by tino

The Project Scope An existing business based in Derbyshire wanted to open a new branch office on the Wirral to support the growth of its operations.  Posted at the new office would be up to 30 on site staff.  The … Continue reading →

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Quite Possibly The Perfect SOHO Backup Solution

Posted on November 16, 2011 by tino

“I like the peace of mind that comes from knowing that should the worst happen and we have a ‘data disaster’ that all of our data is backed up securely and available to us from any Internet connected device” What … Continue reading →

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HP Refreshes Microserver Series

Posted on August 31, 2011 by tino

HP may not know what they are doing when it comes to PC and Tablet hardware strategy but it really does know what it is doing in the server market. The popular HP Microserver series is being refreshed and launched … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server – Great Features, Low Costs

Posted on April 12, 2011 by tino

In my dealings with small businesses I find that the majority pay little attention to the issue of backup/restore until they lose files/folders or worse still have a hard disk failure in one or more of their machines.  At that … Continue reading →

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Virtualisation Case Study

Posted on April 6, 2011 by tino

Project Scope A company I recently worked for had 10 physical servers for a user base of around 50 staff. The company was once part of a much larger enterprise and its staff were used to using enterprise class networks … Continue reading →

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Can you recover your data when you need to?

Posted on February 14, 2011 by tino

Can you recover your data? This is not some kind of scaremongering challenge, but a genuine question that all IT Administrators should ask themselves periodically. Find out about how Forza IT can help your business recover it’s data at the point of need. Continue reading →

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