Monday, August 5, 2013 by Krzysztof Jendrzok
As summer winds down and companies start anticipating fall, which is busy season for many, it is time to start thinking about what you can do to help get your house in order. More often than not, data has accumulated in your organizations’ IT systems and archives, making it difficult to manage and expensive to store.
Thursday, August 1, 2013 by David Logue
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by David Logue
Monday, April 22, 2013 by David Logue
This is a follow up to the original article on RAID vs. Drive Rebuilds. Several questions came up about RAID and drive rebuilds and preventing data loss since the original posting, and Part 2 will attempt to address those questions.
Monday, March 18, 2013 by The Data Experts
If you stop and consider the complexities of an IT Department, you can draw many similarities between a baseball pitcher in the bullpen and a systems administrator. Imagine it’s the bottom of the seventh inning when the phone rings, telling you to start warming up. You know what your job requires and you have done it before, but were you really ready for the call? What things have you considered, or alternatively, not considered?
Monday, March 11, 2013 by David Logue
Recently VMware® and NetApp® identified an issue that affects multiple customers. Customers running ESX 5 can experience issues with NetApp NFS data volumes under high load. Vaughn Stewart detailed the “naughty” behavior and the proposed resolutions from NetApp and VMware in his blog at http://virtualstorageguy.com/. Specifically he noted:
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Krzysztof Jendrzok
Monday, February 11, 2013 by David Logue
What happens when a RAID rebuild goes wrong and what can be done to prevent that from happening to you? To answer the question, you need to understand how data is written to a RAID array and what happens when a drive fails and a rebuild is started. I am going to use a Windows NTFS volume and a 4 drive RAID 5 array as the example system.
Monday, January 14, 2013 by David Logue
This post is a continuation of the series on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and their role in enterprise storage. In the first post, I discussed the differences between traditional HDDs and SSDs. In the second post, I looked at the challenges associated with data destruction and asset disposal.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 by David Logue
Why care about data destruction and asset disposal? According to the US Department of Commerce, data security breaches cost US companies more than $250 billion per year! A few examples will help illustrate the importance of proper data erasure and asset disposal practices.
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