How important is data security in your IT concept? If you want to benefit from the potential of constantly growing data stocks, you need strong mechanisms to protect this valuable raw material. We show you what dangers exist – and how you can prevent them by replicating your data. Data …
Archiving and backup strategies in companies are usually set up and managed by the administrator. Such a centralized structure simplifies many processes. However, it also holds potential for conflicts between the central IT administration and the employees from the business departments. In this blog article you will learn how PoINT …
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 …
GDPR vs. retention requirements The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires personal data to be deleted once it is no longer required for a specific purpose. This presents significant challenges for businesses – challenges that come with substantial risks. Breaches of the regulations can result in fines. It’s not …
Data volumes are rising fast and show no sign of slowing down. This places businesses under ever greater pressure. The rise of digitization is resulting in increasingly large volumes of data being generated across all fields of business. As a result, there is a need for flexible and scalable storage …
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 …
