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storage devices
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How Latency and Throughput Impact Storage Performance
If there is one conversation I have had more than any other in my career, it is explaining…
Basic Concepts and Importance of Data Security in Storage Systems
I want to shift gears a bit here and go more technical. Data security in storage systems is…
Data Backup Basics for Long-Term Storage: A Complete Guide From Beginner to Advanced
When I first started managing storage infrastructure, I thought backup was simple — copy files somewhere else, and…
Comparing Data Replication Methods and Their Properties: A Deep Technical Guide
I’ve spent a lot of time designing disaster recovery architectures, and replication is always the part that generates…
Deduplication and Compression: Functions, Differences, and How They Actually Work Together
I get asked this question constantly by people new to storage: “Isn’t deduplication just another word for compression?”…
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Concepts in Data Storage: A Complete Guide
If you have spent any real time inside a data center or a storage team, you already know…
Implementing a Monitoring, Alerting, and Reporting Strategy for Storage Protection
I have been paged at 3 a.m. for a storage array that had been silently degraded for six…
General Virtualization Concepts in Storage: A Practical Deep Dive
The first time storage virtualization really clicked for me was when I stopped thinking about it as “a…
Volume Management Concepts: From Physical Disks to Flexible Volumes
Early in my career I resized a partition the hard way — backup, delete, recreate, restore — because…
Storage Provisioning Techniques: Thick, Thin, and Everything In Between
I still remember the first time I provisioned a 10TB thick LUN for a database that ended up…