About storage


Storage technology impacts most people's lives often without them realising it. Many devices require some form media to record data including digital cameras, MP3 players through to the large corporate network.

As a result, there are many different types of storage available, the purpose of which is to allow people to store and potentially share large volumes of information. Companies are also becoming increasingly affected by a wide range of legislation that means that they have to store key records in many cases for a period of years. As a result the need for storage products has increased and is likely to continue to do for the foreseeable future.

Read more here about the different types of storage technologies available, email archiving, data archiving, disaster recovery, SAN, file sharing and NAS, and backup and recovery systems.


Questions and answers

Why do I need to take regular backups? - Quite simply because if you don't you may loose very important information that you may never be able to duplicate or generate again. This can be anything from a document or an email, through to customer records and key financial data...
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What is the difference between backup and archiving? - Archive information is the primary copy of information which might need to be accessed every day while backups are secondary. This means that...
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What is the difference between disaster recovery and backup and recovery? - Backup and recovery is essentially a major part of disaster recovery. Without a backup of the latest data on the computer or network, it will never be possible to implement the disaster recovery plan simply because there will be no data to recover...
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How do I find the right suppliers? - Conjungo is a great starting point, because it will let you find the right supplier according to your location, company type, size and whether they have the right accreditations. Furthermore, Conjungo is completely unbiased, has most of the major vendors' partners included and...
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