Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDon’t overlook or ignore these 10 data storage issues — including ones related to staff, security and cost — as they could disrupt operations without the proper planning. By Paul Kirvan Considering how ubiquitous data storage is, one might think no serious challenges exist for such a key part of most organizations. However, there are several data storage issues, including
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesDisaster recovery (DR) is an organization’s ability to respond to and recover from an event that negatively affects business operations. By Erin Sullivan, Paul Crocetti and Ivy Wigmore Read on to learn more about why DR is important, how it works, and the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity. You’ll also discover what to include in a disaster recovery
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe Advanced Host Controller Interface and RAID are fundamental concepts for running an efficient data management and storage infrastructure. Learn the AHCI and RAID basics. By Scott D. Lowe and Brien Posey Even in this age of SSDs, IT still works with technologies developed in the last century. These techs include the Advanced Host Controller Interface and redundant arrays of
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWrite endurance is the number of program/erase (P/E cycles) that can be applied to a block of flash memory before the storage media becomes unreliable. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIBM introduces new consumption-based Storage as a Service for FlashSystem based on performance, capacity and contract term; and adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks. By Carol Sliwa and Johnny Yu IBM turned its FlashSystem focus to two hot areas in enterprise storage with new as-a-service options that let customers add on-premises infrastructure the way they do in the public
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesErasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across a set of different locations or storage media. By Robert Sheldon If a drive fails or data becomes corrupted, the data can be reconstructed from the segments stored on the other drives. In this way, EC
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNetApp storage appliances and VMware’s vSphere platform provide widely used data center resources. Combine their capabilities by using NetApp’s SnapCenter to back up vSphere. By Dan Franciscus One of the most common setups for virtual environments is to use vSphere — vCenter and ESXi hosts — in conjunction with NetApp storage appliances. Both VMware and NetApp offer best-in-class resources, which
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCloud providers now offer NAS compatibility, which gives another option for NAS backup. Know what to expect when exploring NAS backup for cloud options. By John Edwards NAS systems are designed to provide reliable, redundant backup capabilities. As a result, simultaneous storage and backup failures are rare. However, it is not impossible. When a crisis strikes, such as a fire, natural
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote cloud-based storage. By TechTarget Contributor A cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote cloud-based storage. A cloud storage gateway provides
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