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The do’s and don’ts of a NAS   A Network Attached Storage, or NAS for short, is popular with many residential users. Not surprisingly, we regularly get the question whether storage of data for backup and/or archive can also ‘just’…

3-2-1: this is how to keep your data safe! Healthcare facilities in particular have had to deal with it in recent weeks: attacks by hackers through system leaks. Not entirely coincidentally, in our previous blog we discussed the ransomware attacks…

Can you dedupe, part 2 Several weeks ago, we already told you about the “common” file-based and more advanced ways of deduplication. If we are going to deploy deduplication to a backup storage, and that storage deduplicates automatically, that is…

The fourth pillar of secondary storage: low complexity Secondary storage should be as least complex as possible. This is easily said, but no less true. The more systems you have, the more specialists you need and the more service contracts…

Does your backup actually work? Some weeks ago, we published a blog about the “time-honored” 3-2-1 rule when backing up. One of our partners responded to this blog with the fair comment that testing the restore is just as important.…

Home workers beware, part 2 The laptop at home is much less secure than in the office. In most cases, someone will log into the work server from home via a public channel. That requires a strong password, much stronger…

Save space and money with the right storage! Many different documents are used in the transportation and logistics industry. Digital documents, but also all kinds of receipts, bills of lading, invoices, for example. That amount is skyrocketing, especially as we…

Determine your storage needs: not too big, not too small We find that our customers often struggle with the question of what their storage needs actually are. And that question is not always easy to answer either, especially since you…

Can you dedupe? Deduplication or abbreviated dedup. Sounds expensive then something technical, but in fact it is nothing more than eliminating duplicate data on a storage system. That does not make the process an sich less important, because duplicate data…