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Category Archive For: Storage Technology
How do Retention Plans Work?
As we’ve already discussed in a previous article, entitled “How Do ZFS Snapshots Really Work”, Open-E JovianDSS has the ability to create snapshots and can also back them up on ...
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Vendor Lock-in in the Era of Hardware Shortages
Eoin Colfer once said “A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.” This is ever ...
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How Do ZFS Snapshots Really Work?
Before discussing how a snapshot works in Open-E JovianDSS, we should start with its definition. According to Wikipedia: “In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at ...
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The Fundamentals of RAID
This is a Viking. He has a helmet. The helmet has no horns. Viking helmets didn’t have horns. He has full armor. Vikings wore full armor just like everyone else ...
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Atomicity, Copy-on-Write and Data Integrity: A Primer
Were you ever in the middle of saving some changes when the power went out? Did you lose both the changes and the original version? This typically happens when the ...
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Why a HOT SPARE Hard Disk Is a Bad Idea
Updated on 03/08/2021 Due, in part, to the different views and opinions regarding the usage of hot spare disks in our previous post, we’ve decided to add an update for ...
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Open-E Data Storage Solutions for Education Sector
The education process has fastly moved forward in order to match all the standards of the progressing society, increasing the involvement of digitalization. Schools and universities are eager to provide ...
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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Solutions with Open-E JovianDSS
Imagine the life of a company or an organization with all its commercial and operational activities. In order to safeguard all the aspects of the business, it is essential to ...
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Data Storage Solutions for Government & Public Sector
The process of digital transformation has affected almost every sphere of our life, which became even more significant during the pandemic situation. The government sector is not an exception here. ...
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Data Centers in Jeopardy
The recent accident of OVH, whose whole data center was burnt to the ground without any chance to restore the data, has shown that nowadays we started to pay less ...
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