NAS vs. Object: Beating Bit Rot – Examining Data Durability

Abstract

IT considers data durable if it survives anything that might happen to it because of how the user stores it. Typical data protection systems (e.g. backup, snapshots, replication) protect data from component, media, site, and human failure – or at least they’re supposed to. Object storage, whether from a cloud provider or onsite in the data center, can provide many of those features as well. My colleague Joseph Ortiz will compare the data protection techniques of NAS vs. Object storage in a future post.