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Effective NAS SMB/NFS File Sharing with Open-E JovianDSS
When it comes to data storage system creation, it is essential to make it as effective as possible for each type of enterprise and its IT infrastructure. This way, paying ...
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Open-E JovianDSS for MacOS
Does Open-E JovianDSS go with macOS like apples and oranges or apples and pie? We do an assessment to find out. As with any good assessment, we start with a ...
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The Differences Between Commercial and Open-Source Products
If there was a battle between commercial software and open-source software, which side would you pick? Let’s start with a brief explanation of the two, starting from open-source software. Open-source ...
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Using Open-E JovianDSS with Microsoft Windows Products
Microsoft is a name that everyone in the tech world and most regular people are familiar with. It makes one of the world’s premier operating systems, Windows, and has a ...
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Hyper-Converged Storage Explained
As companies grow, so too do their hardware needs. In the past, this could cause additional headaches as it meant choosing the right piece of hardware from what might sometimes ...
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Through Thick and Thin: A Provisioning Guide
Much like with many things in IT, provisioning can mean several things. For instance, user provisioning, server provisioning, service provisioning and network provisioning all exist and refer to different aspects ...
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Open-E JovianDSS Server Topologies
Choice is a wonderful thing. And we at Open-E really believe this. That’s why we created Open-E JovianDSS and added a vast amount of specific, unique customizations that let our ...
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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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