Storage Category
A Guide on How to Mount Amazon S3 as a Drive for Cloud File Sharing
June 2, 2023
AWS, or Amazon Web Service, has its own cloud object storage service – Amazon S3 (or Simple Storage Services). Data is stored in "buckets",...
How to Backup VMs to Azure with NAKIVO Backup & Replication
March 18, 2023
One of the requirements of successful virtual machine backup and recovery is storing backup data in the cloud as an offsite copy. Offsite ba...
How to Back Up Data to Azure Blob Storage
February 18, 2023
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage optimized for storing large amounts of unstructured data such as different files, including...
The Different Methods to Back Up NAS Drives
February 14, 2023
NAS devices are convenient for storing large amounts of data and accessing shared data over the network. Given that NAS devices have their o...
Types of Azure Storage: Complete Overview
January 18, 2023
Azure Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution that can work for different use cases. This solution offers many options to store data i...
Tape Backup vs Disk Backup for VMs
December 20, 2022
In recent years, there has been a significant shift toward disk-based backup in terms of media used as targets by data protection solutions....
GFS Backup Retention Policy Explained
December 20, 2022
Ideally, the goal of backup is the ability to recover data from any point back in time. The straightforward way to do that is to keep period...
Hyper-V Storage Best Practices
December 20, 2022
Storage is one of the most important components involved with servers; this includes virtualization servers that have a hypervisor installed...
Using Amazon S3 and AWS EC2 as Cloud Backup Storage
November 30, 2022
Amazon provides compute and storage services in the cloud. Different AWS services can be used to store backups in the cloud and ensure that...
File Server vs NAS – Which One to Choose?
November 18, 2022
File servers and NAS devices are common solutions for storing and sharing files over a network. But the two differ in functionality. Choosin...
Best Practices for Offsite Tape Storage: Short Overview
July 25, 2022
Creating onsite backups alone is not enough to guarantee data recovery in all data loss and disaster scenarios. If onsite backups are lost,...
Magnetic Tape Backup in 2023: Full Overview
June 7, 2022
Tape has been in use as a primary storage medium since the 1960s. Over time, tape drives have been overshadowed by disk and cloud storage wi...