Storage Tiering and Cost Savings for Data Backup and Recovery

No matter where you look, the cost of the newest technology is rising for businesses. Older tech drops in price fast. The newest kit brings enough complexity that costs stay high. So companies are getting more deliberate about how they design internal IT, which brings prices down. One practice that is helping businesses achieve this […]

The Most Common Causes of Hard Drive Failure

It happens to us all eventually. Things seem to be clicking along fine, and then, out of nowhere, your computer refuses to boot up. Maybe you’ve noticed some cryptic error messages that don’t seem actually to relate to any part of your system. Without a plan, hard drive failure looks like a nightmare. Planning is […]

RTO and RPO: Know the Differences

Disaster Recovery: The Basics RTO and RPO are the two numbers that decide what your disaster recovery plan costs and how much it protects. How well would your company fare if your area was struck by a natural disaster tomorrow? Would your business survive? Could you restore operations fast enough to get back to normal? […]

Block Storage vs. Object Storage Services

Data centers are useful for storing large amounts of data. A common data storage question is whether the data should be stored in blocks or in objects. There are benefits and disadvantages to both types of storage. Blocking Storage A block, sometimes known as a physical record, is a bit sequence, that contains a whole […]

2017 DDoS Attack Trends

As trends go, 2016 had quite a few positive and negative ones in IT. One of the most prevalent was distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and that progression is expected to continue through the New Year. Some of the specifics will change as prevention strategies improve in efficacy, but that simply means the DDoS […]