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Why you should or should not dedupe Deduplication is the technique of eliminating duplicate data in storage. Deduplication systems are widely used in backup storage; they readily calculate reachable rates as 20:1, which is partly true, but if you assume…
So can this: a System Rescue Brick Very common: a USB stick or even CD labeled “System Rescue. Do you remember them? These devices had a small Linux system that you could plug into a computer. After rebooting, you then…
Note! Ransomware attacks on the data store layer! Ransomware represents for many businesses and organizations and outright threat. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a computer and/or data. It then demands a ransom from the user to free the computer and…
Limit the restoretime! It sounds logical and it is: the less data in the backup, the faster you can restore and thus the faster you are up and running again. Separation of active and archival data We talk about it…
Why offsite backup is really necessary Backup and archive data are best protected offsite, for the simple reason that these data cannot then be unauthorized damaged by ransomware, hackers or sabotage. Of course, data can also be accidentally corrupted, by…
Avoid an unpredictable cloud! Some time ago, it appeared that the Google Cloud had been unavailable for six hours at one point. So Gmail, Google Docs and all sorts of other apps made available by Google in the cloud were…
We want to actively promote our secondary storage system Silent Bricks to resellers, companies and institutions. Not selling products, but raising awareness of Silent Bricks, creating interest and advising prospects about this wonderful system is the right job description for…
Many of our customers know very well that they are only actively using 10 to 30 percent at most of their data. Or counted another way: 70 to 90 percent of the data is secondary data that is almost never…
We frequently find that primary storage is used as an archive location. Unfortunate, unnecessary and expensive, because this storage is designed precisely to work quickly with changing data. Storage backed up daily. Everything that archive data is precisely NOT and…
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