IT Faces the Problems of Retired Drives When disk drives are retired and moved outside from the data center into someone else’s hands, the data …
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Thick vs. Thin Provisioning
Introduction Thick provisioning, thin provisioning – These terms have been around for a period of time, but what is the difference between them? Since thick …
NAS Data backup and Disaster recovery strategies
How disaster recovery takes place for IT administrators Over the years, enterprise storage solution providers have developed and launched various disaster recovery tools for IT …
QoS (Quality of Service)
Introduction QoS (Quality of Service) is a term used in the field of packet switched networks to refer to the probability that a network will …
SAS vs. SATA Drives
Introduction Nowadays, knowledge of Hard Disk Drives become increasingly important as the requirements of capacity and performance of storage are growing exponentially in huge enterprises …
Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI
Introduction If you are a storage expert, you may have heard about these two protocols. But buying new storage arrays may face barriers of selectivity, …
Data Storage Guide for Startups
Businesses transitioning to the cloud have a big learning curve ahead. And for the IT pros responsible for data storage for startups, it’s a big …
How to make data management Efficiently and Safely?
Many sources have predicted exponential data growth from 2010 to 2020 and found the size of the digital universe will be doubled every two years …
What is ZFS?
Introducing ZFS: Your Enterprise-Grade File System Many people have heard of ZFS, but are unsure what it actually is. So, what is ZFS? The Zeta File System …
ZFS vs. EXT4
ZFS may be the best-known enterprise-grade transactional file system to use storage pools to manage physical storage space. It is not the only one on the …