What Are Network Monitoring Protocols?
Data center, server, storage and networking management are all extremely complex yet critical procedures of IT. With such territory comes a myriad of jargon, and here the experts at Procurri aim to demystify one such area: Network Protocols. Read on
The Security Risk Posed By Unauthorized Hardware
As businesses around the world have grown more reliant on technology, the understanding and knowledge of security risks around it has grown – but in today’s society with so much connectivity and digital communication, companies remain far from completely secure.
Navigating The Acronyms: EOL, EOSL, EOD, EOS
The IT industry is full of jargon and acronyms, and data center management is perhaps one of the worst offenders. At Procurri, we encounter numerous abbreviations on a daily basis and several of them are very similar. Here, we explain
How Long Do Data Center Servers Last?
Data centers are particularly bulky and environmentally unfriendly IT hardware assets. Yet, like all IT hardware, the equipment in them can only last so long – either before it is rendered defunct or needs to be replaced with a newer
A Beginner’s Guide to NIST: Clear, Purge, Destroy
Procurri specialises in helping businesses recycle, refurbish and remarket their old IT hardware assets wherever possible – and a huge part of such work is the process of data sanitization. Data sanitization ensures that all data-bearing hardware has all information
How To Successfully Decommission A Data Center
The decommissioning of a data center is a large and often very time-consuming project, with many moving parts and lots of legal responsibilities for businesses to remain mindful of. At Procurri, we work to the highest of global and industry
The Importance of Hard Drive Destruction: Real Life Business Case Studies
It’s well recognised that businesses have a myriad of data protection requirements to keep up with and that they must take seriously their responsibilities for both customer and organisational data management. When it comes to ITAD (IT Asset Disposition), eventually
Data Storage: The Key Terms You Need To Know
IT is an industry notorious for jargon, and when it comes to data centers and their related performance, hardware, storage and capacity, there’s certainly plenty of acronyms and new words to be learnt. Here, the Procurri team explains all you
Converged vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure: What’s the Difference?
As technology has developed, IT infrastructure for many companies has grown more and more complex; making the management of it a time-consuming job and a specialist one. Now, businesses are looking to move away from these configurations and on to