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Hardware-Agnostic Data Storage Software: The Leading Solution For 2022
Hardware, Interviews

Hardware-Agnostic Data Storage Software: The Leading Solution For 2022

In 2021 we saw just how quickly and to what magnitude the data storage market could change due to a pandemic and lack of hardware. Let’s share some predictions of ...

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Open-E JovianDSS, Virtualization

Hyper-Converged Storage Explained

As companies grow, so 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 have ...

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Summing Up 2021: Implementations of Open-E JovianDSS
Open-E JovianDSS

Summing Up 2021: Implementations of Open-E JovianDSS

In 2021, Open-E created numerous solutions with and had many successful implementations of Open-E JovianDSS. We’d like to take a moment to review some of these 2021 case studies and ...

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Open-E JovianDSS Up29r1 Is Now Available & Can Support a Number of New Hardware Options!
Open-E JovianDSS, System Updates

Open-E JovianDSS Up29r1 Is Now Available & Can Support a Number of New Hardware Options!

This latest version of Open-E JovianDSS, Up29r1, is aimed primarily at providing customers with a wider range of hardware options to choose from than ever before, something that’s very important ...

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Software-Defined Storage Predictions for 2022: An Interview with Western Digital’s Experts
Hardware, Interviews

Software-Defined Storage Predictions for 2022: An Interview with Western Digital’s Experts

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a hot topic these days. No longer are buyers opting for services and solutions that require them to pick a vendor and stick with that vendor ...

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How do Retention Plans Work?
Backup, Open-E JovianDSS

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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hardware, shortages, software
Hardware

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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The Fundamentals of RAID
Open-E JovianDSS, RAID

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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