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The Prime Directive of Storage: Do Not Lose Data

December 12, 2014 By Stephen Leave a Comment

People call on storage devices and systems to do lots of things, from accelerating I/O to copying and sharing data. But at the heart of it all, storage arrays really have just one job: Do not lose data! That's right. Storage really only needs to store data. Nothing fancy; nothing exotic. I give you data, you give it back. Everything else you can do for me is … [Read more...] about The Prime Directive of Storage: Do Not Lose Data

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