Backups, snapshots, cloning and replication are all valuable ways of protecting the organisation’s data. In this article, we’ll look at replication, in particular between storage arrays. Key to this ...

Synchronous vs asynchronous replication: How do they differ with regard to the order of events during data writes? When comparing synchronous vs asynchronous replication, let’s take a scenario where a ...

Last time, I raised the issue that modern disaster recovery strategies require near real-time data replication to ensure that data is protected almost as soon as it is created. Furthermore, the ...

Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks. Data replication has stood the test of time, ...

Protecting essential data has never been more important than it is today due to the escalating cost of system downtime and the increased likelihood of natural and human-made disasters. As a result, ...

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When companies make duplicate copies of enterprise data for backup, disaster recovery or other business purposes, they are said to be replicating data. Such duplicate copies of data can reside locally ...

In a world that appears to be governed by Murphy's Laws, anything can go wrong. Accidents ranging from machine crashes, media failures, operator errors and random data corruption to such catastrophes ...