Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty in backups: Where do copies reside?
A sovereignty review typically establishes where the primary system sits, which staff can reach it, and under whose law the operator falls. It then stops. The ...
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Data sovereignty
Remote support access: A gap in data sovereignty
A sovereign storage deployment is usually described by where the data sits and which staff can log in. Both descriptions tend to omit the vendor. Support ...
Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty and encryption: Who controls the keys?
Encryption appears in nearly every sovereignty discussion as the control that settles the question. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, so the argument ...
Object storage
Object storage hardware refresh: Replacing aging nodes
Servers bought five years ago still hold data, still appear in warranty renewals, and are still the nodes most likely to fail next. Replacing them is not ...
Object storage
S3 error codes: Diagnosing application failures
An application fails against object storage and the ticket says the upload did not work. The response that caused it carried an HTTP status, an S3 error code, ...
Object storage
Object storage expansion: What happens as nodes join?
Adding capacity to a running object storage cluster is documented as a short procedure and experienced by operators as a multi-week condition. The nodes join, ...
Object storage
S3 load balancing: Designing for endpoint failures
An S3 endpoint is a single hostname standing in front of a set of nodes that fail individually. Most deployments put a load balancer in that position, point a ...
Object storage
Object storage monitoring: Metrics that reveal trouble
A dashboard showing green capacity bars, an average latency figure and an uptime percentage can sit alongside an application team reporting intermittent ...
Object storage
S3 access policies: Designing least-privilege access
Most on-premises S3 deployments start with one access key per application and a policy granting full access to a bucket, because that is what gets the first ...
Object storage
Object storage integrity: How to verify migrated data
A migration completes, the copy tool reports no errors, and the source is scheduled for decommissioning. That report describes what the tool attempted and what ...