Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

One of the most common problems that IT pros encounter with EC2 instances is creating an instance, only to outgrow it later on. An admin might, for example, provision an instance with a certain amount ...

AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Data deduplication is commonplace nowadays in backup and is a common feature of backup software products and disk-based backup devices. But data deduplication – or more commonly single instance ...