While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

Snapshots are a well-known and mature technology used for data protection, historically found in storage arrays. With the advent of virtualisation, the hypervisor now provides an alternative location ...

Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...

IBM recently announced that it is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to its IBM FlashSystem all-flash arrays. IBM says that its Safeguarded Copy for these all-flash storage arrays ...

TrueNAS taught me that RAID protects against drive failure, but snapshots are what make a NAS feel safer in everyday use.