Networking & Infrastructure

A Coimbatore logistics firm lost CCTV footage and a RAID disk to desktop drives in 24×7 boxes. Here is how Sirius Star sized the right Western Digital hard drive for NAS, surveillance and servers by WD colour.

How a Hyderabad auto-parts plant stopped the 2 a.m. drive to its server room with an ATEN KVM-over-IP switch and a serial console.

How a Pune ERP firm chose between Intel Xeon Gold and Silver for its server refresh, and why software licensing flipped the cost math.

How a 3-warehouse Coimbatore logistics firm replaced 3 MPLS leased lines with Cambium PTP India wireless backhaul in one weekend. Rs 11.6L all-in.

BPE UPS held a Lower Parel BPO through a 4-hour July outage. Day-in-the-life log with numbers and the sizing checklist.

CommScope SYSTIMAX India: how a 320-seat Hyderabad ITES floor recertified one weekend, what we walked back on the BOM, why the audit took 90 minutes.

Anjali walks through a Hyderabad rack pod expansion choosing Schneider Galaxy vs Vertiv Liebert UPS India with the three clauses that decided it.

How a Mumbai cooperative bank ran NetApp AFF C250 against Dell PowerStore 500T and Hitachi VSP One B26 across 280 TB and 60 days, what each won, and why the bank signed NetApp at INR 1.84 crore.

Postmortem of an 18-to-4 Xeon to AMD EPYC 9354P consolidation at a 220-person Pune fintech. Week-two thermal spike traced to a vendor BIOS NUMA default and a single-quadrant PCIe NIC layout.

A 280 person Pune pharma R&D weekend. 36 hours to pull tired Cat6 unshielded and certify Belden Cat6A shielded before Monday morning. Naveen Reddy’s IDF cable closet field report.