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A RAID Inc. Guide to Data Backup Versus Data Archiving

Having the capability to access and recover data is essential for organizations big and small. Backing up and archiving data are the only two ways one accomplishes this. Nevertheless, how does one know which method is best for their organization to use?… [...]

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What Is Big Data Storage? A Clear and Concise Guide

Big data storage is a technology that applies to storage technologies that specifically address, in some fashion or another, the three Vs: volume, velocity, or variety. Yet big data doesn’t address the classification of relational database systems. In simpler terms, it’s a… [...]

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File, Block, and Object-Level Storage: Which Solution Is Best for Your Organization

There are three principal classes of storage on the market: file-based storage, block-based storage, and object-based storage. It’s almost hard to imagine there ever was a time when storing data was much simpler; a time when structured data belonged stored away in… [...]

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Storage Requirements Needed for Deep Learning: Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality

With the parameters deep neural networks must process, metadata has become viewed as the curse of dimensionality: a phenomenon “that arises when analyzing and organizing data in high-dimensional spaces (often with hundreds or thousands of dimensions) that do not occur in low-dimensional settings… [...]

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Tiered Storage: A Beginners Guide to Information Lifecycle Management

This guide covers tiered storage, a method of data storage comprised of two or more storage media classifications that include magnetic tape drives, optical discs (OD), digital optical discs (DOD), compact discs (CD), hard disk drives (HDD), and solid-state drives (SSD). The… [...]

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