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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Storage tiering has been a well-known concept in IT for decades. It uses prespecified criteria to store data on one of various different classes of storage system. A storage management system which uses the principles of information lifecycle management (ILM), for example, will move files that have not been accessed for a …
