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# Data

## Latest entries

- [World Cup streaming puts Internet infrastructure to the test](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/world-cup-streaming-puts-internet-infrastructure-to-the-test/) — The Portugal-Spain match at the 2026 World Cup left more than sporting tension behind. It also set a new all-time traffic record in DE-CIX’s global interconnection ecosystem: 28.4 Tbit/s, registered o...
- [Subnet masks: a complete guide for infrastructure professionals](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/subnet-masks-a-complete-guide-for-infrastructure-professionals/) — Few things are as fundamental in infrastructure management as subnet masks—and few are understood as superficially. Anyone who has ever configured a network interface has typed 255.255.255.0 almost on...
- [Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup strategy: A reliable and scalable solution for business environments](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/grandfather-father-son-gfs-backup/) — In today's information-driven world, data is one of the most valuable assets for any organization. Whether due to human error, technical failures, or cyberattacks, data loss can have severe consequenc...
- [Protecting and Controlling Information: It’s More Than Just Backups](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/protecting-and-controlling-information-its-more-than-just-backups/) — In today’s increasingly digital business landscape, data protection goes far beyond having internal documents written down or performing routine backups. To comply with European Union cybersecurity re...
- [The Linux Kernel surpasses 40 Million lines of code: A historic nilestone in Open-Source software](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/linux-kernel-surpasses-40-million-lines-code/) — The Linux kernel, the backbone of countless open-source operating systems, has achieved an impressive milestone: surpassing 40 million lines of code . This achievement, reached with version 6.14 rc1,...
- [Global Internet traffic grows 17.2% in 2024 driven by new technologies and digital services](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/global-internet-traffic-grows-2024/) — The Year in Review 2024 report by Cloudflare Radar provides a comprehensive analysis of global Internet trends, highlighting a significant 17.2% increase in global traffic compared to the previous yea...
- [Data protection and data sovereignty in the digital economy](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/data-protection-sovereignty-digital-economy/) — Data protection and data sovereignty are increasingly important in the digital economy — so much that there is even a Data Privacy Day, celebrated every January 28th, since 2007. Why is it so? Because...
- [PGP, cryptographic privacy and authentication](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/pgp/) — PGP provides cryptographic privacy and authentication when communicating or transferring data over the Internet. How does it do so? By using public-key cryptography, symmetric-key cryptography and dig...
- [Data immutability: resilience against cyber threats](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/data-immutability/) — Data immutability keeps growing in popularity as an ally to ensure data security, regulatory compliance and data recovery. As cyber threats keep on the rise, data security and disaster recovery planni...
- [The difference between backup and data retention](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/backup-and-data-retention/) — Both backup and data retention are types of data preservation , but they do so for different purposes. While backup retention focuses on storing data for recovery in case of data corruption, system fa...
- [NoSQL databases: features, benefits and types](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/nosql-databases/) — NoSQL databases are non-relational databases (DBs), intended for applications that need low latency and flexible models to manage large data volumes. They include a wide variety of database technologi...
- [Data gravity: large data sets attract smaller data sets](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/data-gravity/) — Data gravity highlights the importance of data in our modern economy. Organizations are facing a huge growth in enterprise data due to data-intensive applications like the Internet of Things (IoT) and...
- [Grafana, data analytics and interactive visualization](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/grafana/) — Grafana is a multi-platform, open source web application for data analytics and interactive visualization . It enables the creation of control panels and graphs from multiple sources , including time...
- [The exorbitant increase in data requires innovation in storage](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/exorbitant-increase-data-innovation-storage/) — We liked this reference in Acloudhosting in which they highlight that the exorbitant increase in the data is demanding innovation in storage . The report of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG ) makes it c...