Category: Articles
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Storage Security
Not long ago, all that you needed to protect systems was network security. In reality, we still have little more than that. For storage, we have user permissions, group permissions and ACL, but not much more than that for Windows, Linux or any operating system that I know of, except for SELinux. Add in network…
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Mass Data Storage Devices News & Information From InfoStor magazine
Welcome to InfoStor online. Here, you’ll find information on mass data storage devices, such as enterprise storage arrays used for storage area networks (SANs), RAID arrays, network attached storage (NAS) devices, tape libraries, and other mass data storage devices. This information can be found in current and archived articles from our print issues, Web-exclusive articles,…
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Druva Focuses On Laptop Backup
Druva introduced the inSync 4.1 Enterprise edition of its backup software today, which is designed specifically for protecting “endpoint” data (e.g., mobile or remote devices such as laptops). Company officials cite a number of interesting statistics relating to backing up laptops. For example, data on the edge is doubling every 18 months; 50% of enterprise…
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Cutting The Costs Of Remote Disaster Recovery
Eight years ago, most IT organizations’ ideas of affordable remote disaster recovery (DR) would have consisted of tape backups stored off-site and the potential use of a third-party col- location facility in the event remote system recovery from tape was needed. While still one of the most affordable options today, this method for remote DR…
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Scale Computing Upgrades Scale-Out Architecture
Storage startup Scale Computing today unveiled version 2.0 of its Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) architecture with a new set of “StarterSAN” product configurations for building scale-out storage clusters. The ICS 2.0 architecture allows users to scale storage clusters to the multiple petabyte range on a single file system using commodity hardware. The system automatically stripes…
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SAN Management For Virtual Servers
Managing a SAN, whether it’s Fibre Channel or iSCSI, in a physical server environment is tough enough, but managing SANs in virtual server environments is even tougher. And the challenge is compounded if it’s the server or applications administrators, rather than the storage administrators, that are tasked with making sure that the storage network and…
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The New Case For Open Source Data Protection
The cost advantages are clear, and most of the drawbacks to open source backup software have recently been eliminated. Open source tools, utilities, and products have been available for many years. While these alternatives tend to offer low acquisition costs, companies have been hesitant to adopt them for several reasons. These reasons include spotty technical…
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Archives, AWS And Long Term Costs
My friend David Rosenthal just put together an interesting blog to get ready for a meeting we’ll both attend on archival storage at the Library of Congress (LOC) this week (this year’s presentations from Designing Storage Architectures will be up next week). It seems that some people in the state of Utah were finding that…
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Managed Service Offers Customized Recovery For Data Domain Systems
Recovery service provider (RSP) Simply Continuous is set to release a new version of its managed data recovery service with a new software tool that lets customers define their own service level agreement (SLA) for data recovery on EMC Data Domain appliances. The Data Recovery Vault 2.0 managed service, available next month free of charge…
