Backup & Storage

How can I defrag my Hard Disk by right clicking it? You can tweak your Explorer to have a nice right-click add-on: Download this nifty VB SCRIPT (1kb) or the new and improved EXE (zipped, 10kb) and run it. You will then be able to defrag any HD by right clicking it. This script was…

A hard drive partition can allow you to easily test out new operating systems (like Windows 7 beta) or create a simple way to separate your user data from the operating system install.  You can divide your hard drive into multiple partitions, some bootable, others not. The main reasons for having separate partitions are: to…

File Servers Learning Labs A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 File Servers Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. I start at the beginning of Lab 2 with the Concepts video. Here Scott delves into RAID, Software and Hardware versions with the advantages, disadvantages being discussed along with Basic…

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows…

Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across your AWS services. Using AWS Backup and its new support for S3, you can centrally…

A lot of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications as a part of their digital transformation strategies and the adoption of Kubernetes is a big part of this trend. As businesses have begun migrating toward containers and micros-service type applications, Kubernetes has been quickly becoming the defacto standard for container management and…

This year’s AWS re:Invent conference is taking place from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3, 2021 at the Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The re:Invent conference is the biggest AWS event of the year. Unlike last year’s conference which was only online, this year’s re:Invent is a hybrid event that is both in-person and…