How to achieve complete data protection with invisible backups

Reading time: 3 minutesThe amount of data that companies and organisations from all over the world manage regularly has been growing constantly in recent years. As most of this data is essential for the smooth running of a business, data protection should be a priority. But due to this large amount of data and the complexity that it involves, traditional backup mechanisms are slowly proving inefficient. As traditional one-on-one backups are becoming obsolete, …

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Storage OS powered by Illumos vs. Linux. Which is better?

Reading time: 3 minutesThere’s a question which we’re often asked here at Syneto: Isn’t Storage OS powered with Illumos, with the ZFS filesystem comparable to a Linux powered storage system with Logical Volume Manager, RAID protection and the Ext4 filesystem? Frankly, no. And this is not just marketing talk. In this article we’ll study the technical feature differences that set Storage OS apart from a Linux data storage solution. RAIDz There’s a bunch …

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