Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCreating and adopting a data backup plan is only the first step. To achieve complete data protection, you also need a backup testing strategy. By John Edwards The importance of scheduling regular data backups to protect against the possibility of a primary storage system failure is well understood. Less widely recognized, however, is the fact that backups can also fail,
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesQuad-level NAND has its benefits, but is it right for enterprise-level companies? While it can be plagued by performance and durability issues, the technology still has its uses. By Brien Posey It’s at least somewhat tempting to dismiss quad-level NAND as a poor choice for use in enterprise-class organizations. After all, the quad-level cells in storage devices are far less
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesStorage security is the group of parameters and settings that make storage resources available to authorized users and trusted networks — and unavailable to other entities. ByBrien Posey and a TechTarget Contributor These parameters can apply to hardware, programming, communications protocols and organizational policy. Several issues are important when considering a security method for a storage area network (SAN). The network
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesA data retention policy, or records retention policy, is an organization’s established protocol for retaining information for operational or regulatory compliance needs. ByBrien Posey, Paul Crocetti and Andrew Burton When writing a data retention policy, you must determine how to: organize information so it can be searched and accessed later, and dispose of information that’s no longer needed. Some organizations find it helpful to
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesRAID 5 and RAID 6 provide solid data protection, but both have their pros and cons. Find out what to compare when deciding between RAID 5 vs. RAID 6 in this tip. By Brien Posey To provision storage for a workload, IT pros must choose the right storage architecture. This decision may come down to choosing between RAID 5 vs.
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesStudies show that tape archives are a comparatively cheaper method of long-term data retention. Explore how to use active archive and other storage technologies with a tape system. By Jon Toigo The key advantage of using tape for the lion’s share of storage is its low cost of ownership. Multiple disk archiving vs. tape archiving analyses have been conducted by organizations ranging
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe quick and simple nature of snapshot backup systems can be a big win for your data protection platform. However, there are elements of snapshots that aren’t great for backup. By Paul Crocetti and W. Curtis Preston Snapshot-based backup systems can change the game for anyone interested in using them as their primary method for backing up and restoring critical data.
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNAS devices provide reliable data storage for businesses of all sizes. Backing up that data requires organizations to implement additional data protection efforts. By John Edwards Network-attached storage systems store data on external and physical drives, which frequently lack any built-in backup and recovery capabilities. Fortunately, multiple NAS device backup methods are easily and widely available. NAS operating systems are
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAn active archive is a tiered storage topology/solution that gives IT systems or human end-users access to data through a common, unified file system that automatically retrieves and places that data on the appropriate storage tier. As a whole, active archives utilize several media types: SSDs/flash drives,HDDs, cloud storage, and importantly, magnetic tape. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team Courtesy of:
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe diskpart is one of the oldest tools in the Windows operating system that handles a wide range of disk management jobs, such as assigning drive letters and deleting partitions. Courtesy Post: By SearchWindowsServer staff For basic disk operations on Windows systems, administrators can use diskpart, a command-line utility that remains useful for many different drive-related jobs more than 20 years
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