#1 Software for Data Storage, Backup & Business Continuity
Category Archive For: Storage Technology
The biggest or the Geekiest? Data centers of our dreams
When we were younger, we had dreams – dreams about the future and technology. We remember science-fiction movies with all the flashing little bulbs hypnotizing us. Buttons have concealed mysteries, ...
Read More
Slow Network and It’s Impact on Business Processes
While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties – i.e. during replication process. Open-E Data Storage Software – as ...
Read More
Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary
Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is ...
Read More
Random vs. Sequential explained.
Very often, storage product users do not know what kind of performance numbers to expect in real operations. Why do storage vendors claim such great performance when measured by an ...
Read More
How Much Storage Can You Squeeze to 4U?
Last week I visited WHD2011 (World Hosting Day) in Rust, Germany. As usual there was plenty of interesting news and lots of ideas on how computing is going to develop ...
Read More
Just how important is write cache?
Recently saw the following problem from a customer: They are using Acronis Backup to store their backup on a server powered by DSS V6. From time to time the backup ...
Read More
It is Impossible to Delete This File!
This short story is about how important backing up your data is and how sometimes incidents that people have with regards to data loss or having a second copy of ...
Read More
Ping-Node – explained.
We wanted to provide you an in-depth explanation of the Ping-Node offering clarifications on its function and usage. Incorrect Ping-Node configuration and functionality can cause problems with HA clusters. The ...
Read More What you can expect from SSD?
Hard disk performance is limited by mechanical parts velocity and there is no solution for this issue. Servers are using RAID for redundancy and for performance. Thanks to RAID technology ...
Read More Shared storage for Linux servers – quickly and painlessly
How to provide access to shared data using Linux based servers and cluster file system? In this post we are going to present quick and painless way to configure the ...
Read More