Storage Solutions for Planes, Trains and Ships with Less Than Ideal Data Centers
There are almost as many ways to get around as there are options for enterprise data storage: from direct-attached, to scalable and highly-flexible NAS, to block storage for databases or Exchange, to highly secure data archives, and the public cloud. Choosing what data to store, how, where and when can be tricky. And, some datacenters…Read More
Why a storage enclosure is much more than “Just a Bunch of Disks”
The Enterprise Storage world seems forever abuzz with new technologies claiming to be the new solution to all of the business drivers. It is often easy to overlook that the humble disk shelf is still a key foundation stone of virtually all enterprise storage solutions. While the latest NVMe SSD technology has its rightful place…Read More
How to Keep Your Business Alive in the Face of a Natural Disaster
These days, every business knows the threat of data breaches, with most, if not all, investing in proactive protection and reactive recovery measures to mitigate risks against data loss. But what about natural disasters? Hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes, fires, landslides – according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 was the most expensive year on…Read More
Backup to Protect Your Data
Every IT professional knows they are up against exponential data growth and ever-increasing corporate demands that are pushing traditional data protection methods to their limit. The need to build a backup infrastructure to support unprecedented data growth and increasingly challenging SLAs is more important than ever. Visibility to the backups and control can be challenging.…Read More
Combat File Volatility
Recently ZDNet reported that Microsoft’s long-awaited feature update introduced a bug which deleted user files in a way not easily recoverable. An underappreciated problem with modern computer systems is despite the layers of error detection, they remain unable to tell the user when files (or folders full of files) simply disappear. The cause can be…Read More
