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 …
Research data, whether in the form of scientific notes or measurement results, is a valuable raw material. And if it contains individuals’ personal data – when working in the social sciences, for example – then it is also subject to legal data protection requirements. Empirical data takes significant amounts of …
Ransomware remains a threat to business data. It’s becoming increasingly common to hear stories of businesses becoming victims of malware, their infrastructure infected and taken hostage by trojan viruses, and their data encrypted against the company’s will. When it comes to data security, then, there is no such thing as …
Object storage systems are enjoying increasing popularity – and not without reason. An S3 API is a particularly highly valued characteristic: the Simple Storage Service, S3 for short, lives up to its name by making application development much easier. Object storage is ideal for storing large volumes of data. This …
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 …
