Come see us at CompTIA Breakaway 2012 in Las Vegas July 30-Aug 2nd . See our new NetSwap Plus Mirroring NAS platforms used to supplement your cloud strategy with an on-site mirrored removable drive. Also on display will be the new BNAS 401C roll your own BDR platform.
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Highly Reliable Systems announced today Friday July 13, 2012 on PRNewswire that they are shipping 1, 2, & 4 bay mirroring backup NAS appliances called NetSwap Plus. “Most Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances try to be all things to all people. The NetSwap Plus is a removable drive backup NAS with focus on transportability of…
Saving money on backup software is always a welcome idea. The backup that comes with Windows Server 2008 can work for some people and can create a “snapshot” of your server hard drive to standard .VHD files. The software works well with either our DAS or NAS equipment but if you’re using Virtual machines on…
One question we get with mirroring products such as the 2 bay High-Rely, the FirstRAID, or the Netswap Plus is whether they can be used for both storage and backup. The answer is a qualified “Yes”. The idea is one drive or volume can be used as “primary storage” and then the mirrored drive is…
With all the talk about backup to the cloud, we wanted to take a moment to discuss the encryption that is always part of that backup strategy. Most encryption methods assume the underlying hardware is good. But given that as many as 3-6% of hard drives fail in any given year, it’s important to ask…