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Treat your open source storage infrastructure as a service What if storage was like coffee: menu driven and truly service oriented? Everyone knows how quick and easy it is to order a cappuccino or cortado and have a friendly barista bring it to you in just minutes. Now imagine this is a user who needs ...
The choices you make around IT infrastructure have great impact for both business cost and performance, across areas as diverse as operations, finance, data analysis and marketing. Given the importance of data across all of these areas and frankly, across your business as a whole, making the right decision when choosing a new storage syst ...
Cloud storage solutions can provide public sector organisations with a high degree of flexibility when it comes to their storage needs, either public cloud based, or in their own private clouds. In our previous blog post we looked at the economic differences between these two approaches. In this blog we will explore some of the ...
Date: July 17th, 2022 Location: London, United Kingdom In a couple of weeks, Ceph Days makes a stop off in London, at Canonical’s newly opened office at More London Place. Canonical is proud to be sponsoring this community led event alongside IBM. If you are unfamiliar, Ceph Days are one day conference events that bring ...
Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure. Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of ...
There is no AI without data Artificial intelligence is the most exciting technology revolution of recent years. Nvidia, Intel, AMD and others continue to produce faster and faster GPU’s enabling larger models, and higher throughput in decision making processes. Outside of the immediate AI-hype, one area still remains somewhat overlooked: ...
Out of the darkness and into the light, a new path forward Back in 2020, the CentOS Project announced that they would focus only on CentOS Stream, meaning that CentOS 7 would be the last release with commonality to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The End of Life (EOL) of CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024, ...
Use open source Ceph storage to fuel your AI vision The use of AI is a hot topic for any organisation right now. The allure of operational insights, profit, and cost reduction that could be derived from existing data makes it a technology that’s being rolled out at an incredible pace in even change-resistant organisations. ...
Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation, if lost or exposed there could be severe repercussions. Failure to protect against system failure could lead to the loss of business data rendering a business non-functional ...
Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like retail outlets, remote or branch offices, filming locations and even cars. Use cases for edge storage include local processing, content collaboration that cannot take place with high net ...
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 ...
