Types of Storage

A really really simple guide to types of storage. Local Disk (HDD): A disc or number of discs called platters store data, in the from of “0”s and “1”s, and an arm with...

Grid computing simply explained

In a previous pose called Clustering simply explained we looked what a cluster was and clustering. Another word/technology that is thrown about and is similar but quite different is grid technology. So let’s have...

Vertical and horizontal scaling simply explained

In this post we look at two terms throw about by systems architects and breakdown what they mean. Scaling vertically and scaling horizontally. Scaling Vertically Adding more resources to the existing server....

Clustering simply explained

What is a cluster? A server working by itself is simply just a server or single node. When you have two or more servers that are designed to do the same thing...

How to virtualize

You’re probably reading this because you want to know what virtualization is or how we virtualization. If you haven’t already you might want to read What is virtualisation?. So hopefully we know what virtualization...