Sizing Immutable Object Storage for Veeam in 2026
Sizing immutable object storage for Veeam is not the same as sizing a disk repository. On object storage Veeam keeps data for longer than the retention you set, it cannot clear anything early, and the…
Ootbi vs Veeam Hardened Repository: Build or Buy?
If you run Veeam and want an immutable primary repository, there are two mainstream routes: build a Veeam Hardened Repository on a Linux server, or buy an Object First Ootbi appliance. Since Veeam acq…
Fujitsu Warranty Check: PRIMERGY Support After Fsas
A Fujitsu warranty check now happens on a different website. Fujitsu moved its server and storage business into Fsas Technologies, in Japan in 2024 and in Europe in 2025, and warranty, repairs and sup…
PRIMERGY RX2540 M8 vs Dell R770 vs HPE DL380 Gen12
The Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M8, the Dell PowerEdge R770 and the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen12 are each vendor’s mainstream 2U, two-socket Intel Xeon 6 servers, and on the headline numbers they are close: 8…
GPU Pooling vs More GPU Servers: When Composable Pays
When a new AI, rendering or VDI workload lands, the default move is to buy another GPU server. Composable infrastructure offers a second option: put GPUs in a shared pool and assign them to whichever …
Composable GPU Deployment Checklist: 14 Pre-Install Checks
Most composable GPU projects that stall do so on something mundane: a server that needs a special riser, a PDU with the wrong inlets, a chassis deeper than the rack, a GPU chassis that wants cooler ai…
Offsite Tape Rotation vs In-Library Vaulting: Which Air Gap?
Every serious backup design keeps one copy that an attacker on the network cannot reach. For decades that meant exporting tapes from the library and sending them offsite. Modern libraries offer a seco…
Tape Library Sizing: How Many Slots and Drives You Need
Tape libraries are sold by slots, licensed by slots and limited by drives, and those are three different numbers. Get them wrong and you either pay for slots you never fill or buy a library that canno…
Data Use and Access Act 2025: What Changes for IT
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, and the majority of its UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and PECR amendments commenced on 5 February 2026, with the data-subject complaints-p…
Single Vendor vs Multi Vendor Network: 2026 Lock-In Analysis
Committing to an end-to-end proprietary infrastructure or engineering a multi-vendor estate remains one of the highest-stakes commercial decisions in enterprise IT. While homogenous environments promi…
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