What is a Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud?

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Cloud storage is based on the principle of storing objects rather than files. Private Clouds are most often owned completely by the organization, while Public Clouds are owned by a third party that re...

What is a Cloud Archive Gateway?

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A Cloud Archive Gateway is an appliance or software running on a server that facilitates the movement of data from an on-premise (local storage) to a private or public cloud (such as Amazon, Azure or ...

What is LTFS? (and TDO)

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LTFS (Linear Tape File System) is a standard method of writing data to LTO, allowing transfer of content from one tape system to another. LTFS started with the introduction of LTO5 in 2010/2011 and ma...

What is High Performance Computing Storage?

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High Performance Computing (HPC) is used to solve the worlds most difficult problems, such as weather forecasting, DNA sequencing, quantum physics, oil and gas exploration, understanding the universe ...

What is a Tape File System?

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A Tape File System allows archived files to be read individually from tape media. Conversely a Backup product will write a stream of content which requires a restore operation before reading individua...

What is Self-Healing Archive Storage?

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Archive Storage is defined as “Self-Healing” when it makes automatic additional copies of data. If the first copy of data is unreadable then a second or even third copy would be read automatically ins...