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What is Raid 10 and How Does it Work?
Get a Free Storage RecommendationRAID 10 marries the strengths of RAID 1 and RAID 0 to deliver both fault tolerance and swift access speeds. This blend of safety and speed is why it’s favored in enterprise environments where uptime and performance are critical. What...
What is WORM Storage?
WORM storage stands for Write Once, Read Many. It is a data storage approach that allows information to be written once and then prevents that information from being altered or deleted during its protected retention period. This makes WORM storage particularly...
What Is Kubernetes? Persistent Volumes, SAN, NAS, and Cloud Storage
Kubernetes has changed the way organizations deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. By automating scheduling, failover, load balancing, and application deployment, Kubernetes allows developers to run workloads consistently across on-premises...
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...