For some time now, businesses have avoided relying on just one cloud provider, instead working with various services depending on the use case. This multi-cloud approach reduces dependencies, increases flexibility and helps optimize costs. When it comes to storage services, for example, a company could use an on-site S3 object …
In our previous post, “How secure is object storage?”, we discussed a range of measures you can use to protect yourself against certain data-loss scenarios. Thanks to server redundancy and erasure coding, object storage systems are quite resilient against hardware and site outages. However, the best protection against accidental or …
Previously on our blog, we showed you how the CloudMirror functionality of NetApp StorageGRID can be used to replicate objects. NetApp StorageGRID (SGRID) systems can also be used to set up an in-depth information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. ILM rules can be used to specify the location, duration and protection …
Object storage systems are undoubtedly designed for maximum availability and capable of surviving a wide range of failure scenarios – from hard drive defects and failed system nodes to an entire data centre going down. But despite the high availability of such systems, it is important not to disregard data …
