What Role Do Data Centers Play in Protecting Against Data Degradation?

Data rot is very pernicious because it is silent. Unlike with more dramatic system failures, data degradation tends to go unnoticed until someone tries to access, analyze, or restore data, sometimes years later, at which point recovery may already be impossible or partial at best. This is a significant concern across scientific research, finance, healthcare, […]

JBOD vs. RAID: Which Storage Solution is Best for Data Centers?

Enterprises need to store tremendous amounts of data, and for some organizations, this can reach into the zettabytes. Sometimes, this is only the primary storage, without counting the backups and redundancies these organizations have to implement. Storage solutions not only impact performance but also dictate reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency, and the bigger the organization, the […]

The Ins and Outs of Network Attached Storage

Residential or business, there are plenty of data storage options. What you pick depends on your storage and accessibility needs. It also depends on your budget, and on whether you can manage the system in-house. What is NAS (Network Attached Storage)? Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is data storage that connects over a network to […]