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Bare metal backup and recovery is typically one of the most critical elements of an enterprise’s backup and recovery strategy (often referred to as “disaster recovery strategy” or “DR strategy”). There are a lot of different solutions available, each with its own individual advantages. These DR strategies are a modern necessity in most business fields,…
What is BPipe? Bacula Enterprise can offer advanced integration capabilities for complex and specialized data sets using its “BPipe” feature. The feature in question works as a pipeline interface of sorts, using custom scripts or command line interface sequences to create seamless backup and restoration data flows. This approach makes it possible for Bacula to…
The definition of oVirt oVirt is a virtualization management platform with an open-source code, built as an extension of a popular hypervisor KVM. Despite the fact that it is not particularly well-known in IT circles, it is actually used in many companies and businesses to manage various virtualized environments (primarily in data centers). Live migration,…
Introduction The ability to process massive amounts of data with great speed has earned HPC a place in a diverse range of industries, such as finance, healthcare, defense, meteorology, and many others. It can be an essential tool for a multitude of processes that revolve around discovery and innovation. Some examples would be 3D simulation,…
Introduction Data centers have become one of the most fundamental parts of many businesses today. The primary purpose of any data center is to manage, store, or process information in an efficient way, usually to a wide range of diverse users and sometimes shared by different organizations. There are different forms that data center services…
What is Ceph? Ceph is a software-defined storage platform distributed free and open-source. It provides file, block, and object storage using its distributed cluster foundation as the infrastructure. Ceph does not have to rely on a third-party file system due to its own storage backend called “BlueStore” being capable of managing both SSDs and HDDs…
What is XCP-ng? XCP-ng is an open-source Linux distribution based on the Xen Project. All versions have the Xen API project and the Xen Hypervisor pre-installed. XCP-ng was created in 2018 as the free and open-source version of the XenServer hypervisor. It can technically be classified as its own Linux distribution, although its original goal…
Creating effective backups is a critical practice for almost any company nowadays, no matter what types of data and applications they are working with. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is no different in this regard. Fortunately, the quickly rising popularity of Proxmox has led to a lot of different third-party backup solutions having developed some way…
What is the 3-2-1 rule, and why do some feel it is no longer enough? The 3-2-1 backup rule (often referred to as “strategy” as well) has been one of the most essential pieces of advice in the field of data protection for multiple years now. In fact, many businesses that failed to adapt this…
What is HPC? HPC is High-Performance Computing – a process of solving extremely complex computational problems with the help of computer clusters and supercomputers. HPC utilizes elements such as algorithms, computer architectures, programming languages, digital electronics, and system software to create a complex infrastructure capable of solving incredibly sophisticated tasks using parallel data processing. It…
What is the difference between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery? Both business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential for any modern-day organization, but the differences between the two may sometimes be difficult to pinpoint in some contexts. There are also plenty of examples of how they are treated as one, with the acronym…
What is NIST? NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government agency of the United States that operates under the Department of Commerce. The agency in question is over a hundred years old, although it was known as the National Bureau of Standards from 1901 to 1988. Its main goal is to…
