A customer asked for our latest thoughts on what is the Best Backup for Small Business. The choices include local (to USB or NAS) versus cloud backup (to the Internet), image backup verus file backup, using backup appliances (NAS) versus a full BDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery) appliance. There can be a reluctance for customers in…
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Highly Reliable Systems now offers hardware encryption on select backup NAS devices. High-Rely supports AES encryption on many of our highly-removable drive backup appliances, allowing media to be safely transported. This article will discuss the encryption feature as supported on certain Netswap Plus and RAIDFrame Plus product lines (Not the BNAS or WBA Windows Storage Server based Appliances which have…
That’s the interesting question posed recently by a blogger. If you want to transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it’s generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the internet. This isn’t a new idea—it’s often dubbed SneakerNet—and it’s how Google transfers large amounts of data internally. Cisco estimates…
There are plenty of BDRs, Backup Appliances, NAS boxes, and USB “whatever” to back your data to. But have you run into problems such as quality, speed, or cost? Why not choose a Backup Appliance? There’s no need to put up with buggy backup software, proprietary data centers, or long recovery times. Watch our 11…
Are desktop class hard drive failures vs enterprise class hard drive failures as expected with the desktop drives being higher? Based on our own subjective and objective experience in the drive industry, we have long suspected that desktop hard drives and enterprise drives fail at roughly the same rate. This goes against the conventional wisdom…