In the wake of new government regulations requiring better corporate record-keeping, three top tape library vendors have confirmed that they’re working to combine inexpensive disk arrays with their ...
Redundancy isn't the same as a backup.
I need to replace four disks in a RAID 5 array on a Dell PowerEdge 6600 running Red Hat Linux 9.0. The RAID controller is PERC 3. I'm replacing 73 GB disks with 146 GB disks.<BR><BR>Can anyone point ...
In their push to change the way corporate data centers back up their data, the vendors often leave in their wake confusion as to the viability of hard disk as a tape substitute. &gt;&gt; A new breed ...
Vendor coercion in IT ties business deals to tech adoption, bypassing governance. Discover its risks, especially with AI, and how ...
While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...
Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...
Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...