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Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. This inexplicable experience still haunts that team today.

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Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

Pure Storage

Considering the airline database example above, a NoSQL database would, in this case, store semi-structured and unstructured data related to flights such as readings from airplane sensors and gauges, in-flight recordings and comms, GPS and mapping, regional conditions during the flight, and so on.