scalability

How do I plan for datacenter hardware refresh cycles?

Planning for data center hardware refresh cycles is critical to maintaining optimal performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency in your IT infrastructure. Here’s a step-by-step guide to effectively plan for hardware refresh cycles: 1. Assess Current Hardware Lifecycle Understand Vendor Lifespan Recommendations: Check the manufacturer’s recommended lifecycle for servers, storage, networking equipment, and other hardware. […]

How do I configure IT infrastructure for large-scale distributed databases like Cassandra?

Configuring IT infrastructure for large-scale distributed databases like Apache Cassandra requires careful planning and design to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance. Below are the steps and considerations for setting up such an infrastructure: 1. Hardware Requirements Compute Nodes CPU: Choose servers with strong multi-core CPUs (e.g., AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon). Cassandra […]

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