Tag: backup

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Although the term “offline cloud storage” might sound like a bit of an oxymoron — if you’re offline, you won’t be able to access the cloud — many cloud storage solutions still let you designate files for offline access. Here, we’ll go through our top five picks for the best offline cloud storage, so you can always be sure that you’ll have access to your files, internet connection or no. Key Takeaways:  Sync.com is our favorite cloud storage provider here at Cloudwards and is an excellent choice for offline cloud storage as well.pCloud is also ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; Data has become a currency in the modern world, and everyone is out to get your personal information. That’s the case whether it’s your internet service provider (ISP) tracking your online activity, a Silicon Valley giant farming your search information or a nosy government agency looking for suspicious activities. Zero-knowledge cloud storage can help keep your sensitive files away from prying eyes. Zero-knowledge encryption is a way of encrypting your data where only you have access to your encryption key, so no one else can decode it. When it comes to storing files online, zero-knowledge ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Our work is entirely reader supported, so we may earn a commission if you buy a storage plan based on our reviews. We’re not sponsored by any provider and our opinions are our own. Welcome to our updated 2021 guide to the best cloud storage services. Cloudwards.net has been conducting cloud storage reviews for several years now, and in that time much has changed. Competition between big corporate players like Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, and the emergence of privacy-oriented providers like Sync.com, pCloud and MEGA, has been a boon for consumers. To save you ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. A data warehouse is a centralized repository of business data coming from varied sources. It’s a process of collecting and managing huge amounts of data into one comprehensive database. The database size grows every day with increasing demand of integrated and analytical data to provide end-to-end business insights.   But users have had a data realization: some data is mission critical and need to be available constantly while other data may not be as importance to business and is available only for reporting and historical requirements.   In response to the unprecedented supply of workloads and the challenge of ever-changing & diverse ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now access AWS CloudHSM service APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to AWS CloudHSM service APIs without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. Amazon VPC endpoints for AWS CloudHSM allow you to query cluster, HSM and backup metadata while protecting your instances from internet traffic. You can also safely add and remove HSMs to and from your cluster, from application instances. Amazon VPC endpoints for AWS CloudHSM is available in all regions where ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. check_pgbackrest is designed to monitor pgBackRest backups, relying on the status information given by the info command. The biggest change in this new release is that the tool will now only support pgBackRest 2.32 and above in order to only use its internal commands. This remove Perl dependencies no-longer needed to reach repository hosts or S3 compatible object stores. This also brings Azure compatible object stores support. The repo-* arguments have then been deprecated. pgBackRest 2.32 has been released this week and brings official support for the repository commands: repo-ls and repo-get. Let’s find out in this ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kirushna Kumaar Ganesan. As organizations continue to embrace Linux, we see a growing number of enterprises running business and mission-critical workloads on Linux virtual machines in Azure. Azure Backup service offers application consistent backup of Linux virtual machines in Azure to safeguard against unintended destruction of data in your virtual machines. Azure Backup also has a specialized offering for SAP HANA that is workload-aware, offers a 15 minute recovery point objective (RPO), and allows the backup and restore of individual databases. As part of our continued commitment to Linux:  Azure Backup has several improvements to agent-based application consistent backup ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Hello, Puppet friends! It’s been a few months since we rolled out the latest major version of the Puppet platform, bumping PuppetDB, Puppet Server and Puppet Agent to “7.0.0.” First, we’d like to extend our gratitude to our vibrant Puppet community, who helped us immensely in locating and fixing some annoying bugs that managed to sneak through the release. We promptly provided follow-up releases, so be sure to check out the latest available versions for your operating system. Even though we strived to make most of the changes backwards-compatible, there are some breaking ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. The Oversize Attribute Storage Tecnique (TOAST) is a way that allows PostgreSQL to store any kind of attribute within the table. PostgreSQL stores data into data pages that have a fixed size, usually 8 kB; this means there is no room for a variable content (e.g., a string) that grows more than a single data page. To solve the problem, PostgreSQL uses TOAST: when an attribute value is too large to be stored in the table data page, PostgreSQL transparently moves the content to an external storage, namely pg_toast, where the content is split into chunks (parts) ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, AWS CloudHSM launched service in additional Availability Zones (AZs) in US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) to support high demand from our growing customer base.   By adding a fourth AZ in US East (N. Virginia) and a third AZ to Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), CloudHSM now provides customers with additional flexibility to architect scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available applications in these regions. Customers can automatically select subnets in these AZs when creating new clusters in these regions. For existing clusters, create ... Read More