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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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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
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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Common Mistakes When Using Backups
Most modern business organizations base how they work and what they work on off of a large amount of data. However, not every company treats this data in accordance with ...
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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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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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