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Tuning iSCSI Target settings for VMware ESX

Lately, we have been getting enquiries from Open-E DSS V7 users about VMware settings. That’s why we decided to prepare a webcast explaining how to tune iSCSI Target settings for ...

May 22, 2014
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Update your Linux driver for Areca ARC-1883 SAS RAID Adapter

Recently, when performing planned test scenarios with different hardware parts, our QA team identified an issue with kernel panic during read operations on the Areca ARC-1883 SAS RAID Adapter. We ...

May 09, 2014
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D2D2T: a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy

A look at the modern data storage industry can make your head spin. From a variety of hard drives, efficient disk arrays, magnetic tapes, conventional or emulated tape libraries to ...

May 06, 2014
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Is your Heartbleeding?

The Heartbleed bug, officially referenced as CVE-2014-0160, is already being coined as one of the biggest security threats since the mass adoption of the Internet – affecting millions of websites ...

April 25, 2014
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Criteria for selecting files when performing full, incremental and differential backup

A fundamental function of backup and restore software is the ability to copy data from one place to another. No matter if the backup data are stored on volumes, files, ...

April 14, 2014
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CeBIT 2014: Datability with Open-E storage management software

Open-E just spent a fantastic week at CeBIT and here’s a review of what has happened during those five days in Hanover. Open-E and Datability One of the keynote topics ...

March 19, 2014
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An essential element of the data availability architecture is RAID. With a RAID configuration, you can achieve redundancy, lower latency, higher bandwidth for reading or writing, and recoverability from hard-disk ...

December 11, 2013
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iSCSI storage: a beginner’s guide

Storage management for ever-growing capacity of data is a crucial subject for businesses of all sizes. Simple and reliable storage based on iSCSI can be a good alternative for companies ...

November 26, 2013
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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

Among many technologies that increase data storage protection, the term ‘replication’ is used very frequently. Replication, as a way of creating an exact data copy between the source storage location ...