Say goodbye to tape, and hello to flexible cloud backup. Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage. However, while inexpensive, tapes are inflexible. And when used as an offline ...
Opposites attract. Stateful and stateless. Storage and container management systems are almost polar opposites of each other. One deals with permanently storing, and protecting data for as long as it’s needed. The other automatically manages highly dynamic workloads, scaling resources up and down as required. More organisations are t ...
Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own ...
Date: 13-14 September, 2023 Location: Berlin, Germany Join us for stackconf at the NH Hotel Alexanderplatz to learn about the latest developments in open source technology. Find out how to accelerate your development and deployment cycles, and how to make your operations more robust and efficient with mature infrastructure stacks like O ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned public research university and academic medical centre that has more than 22,000 students enrolled, and 24,000 faculty members. UAB generates $12.1 billion in annual economic impact within the State of Alabama. UAB is committed to empowering its researchers with ...
As we announced at Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, Canonical has started to make container images for Ceph available. We received lots of questions at the booth about what it means to the average Ceph user who has or wants to deploy Ceph on Ubuntu. In this blog post, we will cover the benefits to users ...
Over the years, our enterprise data centre users have told us how much they love the end to end experience of an application-centric solution like Juju to manage their entire infrastructure. Juju is a software operator framework that abstracts the specifics of operating complex software and makes it simple and straightforward to deploy, ...
Date: April 16-18th, 2023 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at the Pakhuis de Zwijger cultural centre in Amsterdam. After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first major gathering of Ceph developers and users in almost 4 years! Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be sponsoring the event. ...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was animated using Dragonframe, opening the door for incredible stop motion visual effects. Anyone inspired by the techniques used in Pinocchio can make an animated movie using their iOS or Android device’s camera, connected to Dragonframe running on Ubuntu. Professional animators could go one step further a ...
The flexibility of public cloud infrastructure allows for little to no upfront expense, and is great when starting a venture or testing an idea. But once a dataset grows and becomes predictable, it can become a significant base cost, compounded further by additional costs depending on how you are consuming that data. Public clouds were ...
Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very simplistic interface, ...
