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William Donaldson

Storage Backups

              Storage backups are essential in today’s world as the amount, sensitivity, and complexity of data increases. Data backups are merely a representative copy of data. By performing a backup, the data in question is copied and can be stored on a separate or attached storage device. […]

Data De-Duplication

                Data de-duplication also called single-instance storage and intelligent compression, is a process that removes redundant copies of data as well as lessens storage overhead. This is accomplished by making sure that only a single unique item of data is stored on storage media by replacing […]

Physical and Virtual Tape Drives

  Physical and virtual tape drives hold many advantages and disadvantages respectively. Physical tapes receive data that is optimized for a sequential stream and writes in a serial format while virtual tape drives collect data in a random stream and write the data to an arbitrary device. Virtual […]