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Immutable Backup vs. Air-Gapped Backup
Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they describe different methods of protecting data. An immutable backup prevents stored data from being changed or deleted for a defined period, while an air-gapped backup isolates data from the production...
What Is a Cyber Recovery Vault?
A cyber recovery vault is a secured repository that protects critical backup data from alteration, deletion, and unauthorized access. It is designed to preserve clean recovery points even when ransomware has spread throughout the production environment. Combined with...
IT Capacity Planning: Preparing your Infrastructure for future growth
Effective IT capacity planning involves measuring resource utilization, identifying performance constraints, forecasting growth, and deciding when infrastructure should be upgraded or expanded. The objective is to maintain enough capacity for reliable performance...
Storage Performance for AI and GPU Workloads
Graphics processing units are designed to execute thousands of calculations in parallel. That performance advantage can disappear when GPUs must wait for training data, model parameters, or checkpoint files to arrive from storage. The result is a GPU storage...
How to Test a Disaster Recovery Plan: A Step-by-Step DR Testing Checklist
Test Backup from a Proxmox EnvironmentHello, today we will be taking you through the Nfina-View software's test backup functionality on a Proxmox environment. For starters, I'll show you a quick overview of the setup that we have. We have two Proxmox environments, one...
Proxmox Backup Best Practices
Snapshots, Replication, and Disaster RecoveryIn the ever-evolving world of virtualization, Proxmox Virtual Environment stands out as a flexible and cost-effective platform for managing virtual machines and Linux containers. By combining KVM virtualization, LXC...
What is Cloud Repatriation? Costs, benefits, and migration steps
What is Cloud Repatriation?Cloud repatriation is the process of moving applications, data, or other workloads from a public cloud environment back to on-premises infrastructure, a private cloud, or a hybrid cloud setup. Many companies have experienced the initial...
What is Data Abstraction?
What is Data Abstraction? Data abstraction is the process of hiding unnecessary details to present only essential information to users or developers. In software development, it helps separate the data layer from the user interface, allowing front-end users to...
The Essential Guide to Unstructured Data Management Solutions
From social media posts and customer reviews to emails and multimedia files, a staggering 80% of the information generated daily is unstructured. Yet, many organizations struggle to harness this treasure trove of insights due to its chaotic nature. Welcome to "The...