Mass data storage – you think it is boring. Am I right? If you believe so, let me change your point of view. We would like to present a list of ten ideas – or rather prophecies. Some of them have been fulfilled, some not, yet one question will remains unchanged: what will be next? Furthermore, where are the limits of technology evolution – or maybe revolution? Is it simply a limit of human imagination? [...]

Hardware failure can be a show stopper for any shop without proper backups and hardware reserves. It can be very costly to send hard drives for data recovery. Even with a proper backup plan in place, failures can happen. To mitigate some of the headache, and expense in drive recovery, and downtime. We highly recommend data replication to another node, or volume replication to another DSS node be deployed. With replication in place, a real [...]

Does size matter? When we were younger we had dreams – dreams about the future and technology. We remember science-fiction movies with all the flashing little bulbs hypnotizing us. Buttons have concealed mysteries, holding secrets about unattainable knowledge. And perhaps this knowledge, along with the incredible machines responsible for its storage, would even give us power to control the entire world. Was this all magic? Well, not exactly – not now, in the present. There [...]

While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties – i.e. during replication process. Open-E Data Storage Software – as a professional and versatile product – has been designed with solving this problem in mind.   Synchronous or asynchronous? This is the question. There are two different cases. The first one is connected with block based volume replication. It is based on synchronous volume replication [...]