Why are Self-Encrypting Drives Required? Hard-drives/SSDs used in a company or data center will be returned for repair, warranty, expired lease, or just abandoned after its useful life. Plus drives...
Category: Storage
Backup, Archiving, and Backup Archiving are three different things. Here is why: Backup: Data storage for the purpose of recovery when the original data is lost or corrupted. To protect...
Convergence of Fiber Channel-based storage network onto Ethernet network has many advantages. Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) is the protocol that enables this convergence. But, the Ethernet network is basically...
This post talks about what a RAID Controller is and some salient points you need to know about RAID Controllers and RAID Arrays. If you want a general introduction to...
Any storage system will have a lot of redundant data (same files, etc) stored by the same person, or different people. Data De-duplication removes all that redundant data from the...
There are basically two types of technologies that are popular with storage systems – File level storage which are popular with NAS Systems & Block level storage which are popular...
For a small business / SOHO there may be relatively few documents and files to store, but the available budget and the technical expertise is limited. In such cases, why...
RAID Basics: RAID Systems (In Computers, Servers, NAS, etc) use multiple disk-drives to store data to prevent data loss when individual drives fail & to increase the read/write memory performance....
Self Encrypting hard disk drives just encrypt anything that you store on your desktop/ laptop hard-disk drives. One important reason to use encrypted drives is to ensure that sensitive data...
In large enterprise companies, main servers have (at least) two adapters – FC HBA (FIber Channel Host Bus Adapter) & Ethernet NIC (Ethernet Network Interface Card) to connect to the...
The first image defines what is iSCSI and what exactly its role is, in Storage Area Networks. Convergence is happening over IP everywhere (one reason why IP is exciting!), and...
What is the need for FCOE – Fiber Channel Over Ethernet? High density storage for large organizations use SCSI and FC – Fiber Channel protocols. So, they reside in a...
Why Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)? Before exploring Bare Metal Recovery, we should see how a normal back-up process works briefly- You have a back-up agent installed on the clients/ servers...
With Apple’s MacBook Air standardizing on flash based storage system for their ultra-portable laptop, can we see this trend picking up with enterprise storage as well? Why is the industry...