Category: Hardware

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 […]

Types of Cabling for SMB

    The types of cabling SMB (small/medium size) business use have different advantages and disadvantages. Optical cables transmit data by using light pulses and are comprised of thin transparent cores made of plastic or glass. Copper cables have many strengths that copper cables do not, such as […]