The Technology and Lifecycle of SSD - An Overview
With Flash Memory Summit approaching next week, I thought it would be a good time to dig into the technology and life cycle of the SSD. Unlike traditional hard drives, data storage data in SSDs is...
The 7 Tape Accessibility Threats You Need to Prepare For
Risk is a subject we rarely like to talk about. We may comfort ourselves with audits and handbook instructions, but how prepared are we really for a serious investigation, a malicious attack or a...
How to Tell if a Hard Drive is Failing
More of us are using hard drives to store and back up our data than ever before. The lifespans of hard drives can vary between devices, but they will all fail at some point. Some fail suddenly...
Data Erasure – The End of the Data Lifecycle
In last week’s blog we discussed data encryption and data security. Encryption is just one area of data security and data security rolls up into the larger category of data management. What do you...
Important Things to Consider when Upgrading to Office 365
Cloud services are becoming increasingly common among businesses of all shapes and sizes, allowing for increased productivity while reducing on-premises infrastructure costs. As a result, Microsoft...
Virtual Tape Library: Key to Business Continuity (Pt. 2)
In the first part of this article we covered what Virtualization is, how a virtual tape library works in theory and what storage concepts are implemented. Now we get in more detail and answer the...
Prevention and recovery from Ransomware [Interview]
Ransomware has been around for many years, but it’s only more recently that its impact has reached epidemic proportions. The recent attacks on global organizations FedEx and Travelex, as well as...