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Imagine (if you dare) the worst case scenario with your company’s data. Double disk drive failure, all data lost. You need to recover that data as fast as possible due to deadlines. You’ve been...
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The paradigm of computing resource configurations have changed several times of the last 40 years. From mainframes to mini computers, through desktops and file servers to server farms, software as a...
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One of the common tasks for any system administrator is managing disk space on a server. It doesn’t matter what operating system the server is running, free disk space is always something you keep an...
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There are things in every system that if they fail will cause the entire system to be crippled. These single points of failure can be hardware based, software based or even people based. If a problem...
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