Windows Server licensing is something that, if you don’t live in it every day, can be extremely confusing. To be fair, even if you DO live in it every day,…
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Licensing SQL Server has always been a bit of a pain point. Luckily, Microsoft hasn’t really changed anything in eight years. If you could license SQL 2012, 2014, or 2016,…
Backups are inarguably the single most important thing that any IT person can do for their organization. It matters little that you achieve 99.9999% uptime for six years, if on…
Today we’re reviewing an oft-over looked network connector, the Direct Attached Cable! The Direct Attached Cable (DAC) has transceivers pre-built into them. They come in both SFP+/SFP28 form factor as…
Now that we’ve talked about twisted pair, let’s move into something a little more advanced: transceivers. Transceiver Overview Transceivers are modules that plug into slots on switches to allow for…
Cabling is one of the most basic parts of most IT environments, but its ubiquity leads people to make assumptions about it and take it for granted. This blog series…
Welcome back to our backup power blog series! If you’re joining us for the first time, feel free to go back and check out our previous posts: Backup Power Series:…
Welcome back to our series on everything backup power for your IT environment. If you’re seeing this series for the first time, hop on back to the first two posts:…
Welcome to our second installment in our backup power series. Check out our first post on why you want a well-maintained UPS! What’s a UPS? Well, the easiest answer is…
Electricity is one of the things that IT most commonly takes for granted, which is kind of amusing since all of IT is basically just corralling power to different places…
The main point of disaster recovery (DR) is to decouple it from your production environment. This is the reason that offsite (and offline) backups are so important. Having your backups…
Windows Server 2012 is dead, long live … anything newer Today, October 9, marks the end of mainstream support for Windows Server 2012 in all variations, including Datacenter, Essentials, Standard,…