Snowflake, a quick overview, from their documentation and some project usage experience. Snowflake is a columnar data warehouse and data integration platform SaaS hosted on AWS, GCP, or Azure. Snowflake Use Cases include: Session Data,
Amazon S3 replication Use Cases: Data immutability to Data compliance requirements, minimizing latency, or increasing operational efficiency. Data Immutability: Data cannot be changed. It is related to but different than encryption. Replication enables automatic
(from Azure documentation) Having an effective, documented and tested disaster recovery plan is one of the most important tools for any IT professional who manages server workloads for their organisation. This is because if things
What is an image? Image-based backup creates a copy of an operating system and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations. The backup is saved as a single file
There are many alternatives to backing up a database. A summary is given below. Database Backup Solutions Database backup solutions are two kinds: Database Backup Native Solutions Database Backup 3rd Party Solutions But there is
Part 1: Why Storage Managers Need to Prepare for the Ransomware Scourge Certain parts of the enterprise are more concerned about ransomware than others. The security, networking, and help desk teams are very much in
Ransomware attacks have made it necessary to engage in granular data, operating system, application and file system backups. Traditionally, backups have been scheduled events where we simply send large data dumps to an
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a technology for storage units that offers a balanced flow and plenty of benefits, such as better fault tolerance, enhanced reliability, and high performance. It combines two or
Backup and Recovery is an important part of IT resilience. Application and Platform owners need to work together to provide automation and tooling to allow us to back up data, images, code and configuration templates,
Understanding infrastructure ransomware Ransomware is a type of malware that targets anything it can get into — including backups — to steal or lock up as much data as quickly as possible. Data theft is