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How long does an IT life last? Lately, we’ve been seeing more and more company profiles (on LinkedIn, for example) saying,“Sustainability is in our corporate DNA.” What does such a thing actually mean? That employees have to work on 15-year-old…
That’s how you avoid variable costs! We also talked about the cost of data storage in our previous blog. As if the devil was playing with it, right after that came Microsoft’s announcement that the price of their cloud services…
How to cut costs on your storage We regularly talk about the cost of data storage in our blogs. Especially when large amounts of data are involved, those costs can add up considerably. A major factor in that cost is…
Dependent on one supplier or manufacturer? Rather not! In our industry, we are increasingly seeing the trend of storage hardware vendors and/or manufacturers becoming involved in software. And vice versa. This seems to have some advantages, but there is also…
The do’s and don’ts of a NAS A Network Attached Storage, or NAS for short, is popular with many residential users. Not surprisingly, we regularly get the question whether storage of data for backup and/or archive can also ‘just’…
3-2-1: this is how to keep your data safe! Healthcare facilities in particular have had to deal with it in recent weeks: attacks by hackers through system leaks. Not entirely coincidentally, in our previous blog we discussed the ransomware attacks…
Can you dedupe, part 2 Several weeks ago, we already told you about the “common” file-based and more advanced ways of deduplication. If we are going to deploy deduplication to a backup storage, and that storage deduplicates automatically, that is…
The fourth pillar of secondary storage: low complexity Secondary storage should be as least complex as possible. This is easily said, but no less true. The more systems you have, the more specialists you need and the more service contracts…
Does your backup actually work? Some weeks ago, we published a blog about the “time-honored” 3-2-1 rule when backing up. One of our partners responded to this blog with the fair comment that testing the restore is just as important.…
Home workers beware, part 2 The laptop at home is much less secure than in the office. In most cases, someone will log into the work server from home via a public channel. That requires a strong password, much stronger…
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