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Blog posts tagged
"ceph"


Philip Williams
22 March 2023

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2023

Ceph Article

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. ...


Rajan Patel
1 March 2023

Create stop motion animation with Dragonframe on Ubuntu

Ceph Desktop

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 ...


Philip Williams
19 January 2023

Cloud storage pricing – how to optimise TCO

Ceph Article

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 ...


Miona Aleksic
16 December 2022

Launch your own MicroCloud with one command

Cloud and server Article

Deploy your own micro cloud with a single command in just a few minutes. Try out the new significantly simplified deployment process. ...


Philip Williams
10 November 2022

What is object storage?

Ceph Article

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, ...


Philip Williams
25 August 2022

Open-source storage for beginners with Ceph

Ceph Article

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over the last decade, m ...


Philip Williams
29 June 2022

What’s new in Charmed Ceph with Ceph Quincy on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Ceph Article

Along with the usual bug fixing, maintenance, and upstream version enablement work that goes into every Charmed Ceph release, we also worked on a number of new features in this cycle. Stand-alone NFS shares In Ceph, you can use CephFS for your network file share needs, but sometimes there are applications or use cases that ...


Philip Williams
26 May 2022

Charmed Ceph and Hybrid Clouds at Cephalocon 2022

Ceph Article

UPDATE: Cephalocon 2022 has been postponed In just a few weeks Cephalocon will be held in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center, as well as online for those unable to travel.  After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first gathering of Ceph developers and users in 3 years. Among the attendees, you will ...


Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Cloud Adjacent Storage

Ceph Article

What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage? Public clouds were ...


Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Ceph Article

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially created as an ...


Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Ceph Article

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every day. It truly ...


Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Dell EMC PowerEdge and Canonical Charmed Ceph, a proven solution

Cloud and server Article

Here at Canonical, we have lots of industry partnerships where we work jointly, hand-in-hand, to produce the best possible outcomes for the open source community. From getting early access to next generation hardware to ensure Ubuntu is fully compatible when it’s released, to creating solution orientated reference architectures for produc ...