The cost of moving multiple terabytes or petabytes of file, block and object storage between datacenters and on-premises sites is expensive and time consuming, even with today’s high speed internet connections. For instance, to transport 250TB of data across a high… Read More ›
Disaster Recovery
Remote Replication and Disaster Recovery with Software Defined Storage
If you haven’t taken the time out to review and identify what parts of your IT infrastructure are housing the critical data, now is the time. You never know when you’re going to need it and verifying that you have… Read More ›
Protecting Against Data Loss Using RAID for Post-production Media Storage
If you just watched the above YouTube video about how Toy Story 2 was almost erased out of existence by a mistyped Linux command, then you’re probably paying close attention to why using RAID for media storage is a… Read More ›
How to: Universal Hot-spare Management for ZFS-based Storage Pools
A standard best practice for preventing data loss due to disk failure is to designate one or more disk spares so that fault-tolerant arrays can auto-heal using the spare in the event of a HDD or SSD drive failure. Universal… Read More ›
Planning a Disaster Recovery Strategy: Automated Backup Policies for Software Defined Storage
From a business process perspective, a “disaster” needs to encompass everything from application downtime or hardware failures to computer viruses and hackers that cause business disruptions with economic consequences that may be just as impactful as a fire or flood…. Read More ›