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Blog posts tagged
"Storage"


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. ...


Jon Thor Kristinsson
28 November 2022

Open Source in HPC [part 5]

Ubuntu Article

Introduction to open source HPC focused applications and components. ...


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, ...


liam zheng
26 October 2022

Charmed Kubernetes and Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash storage integration verification reports

Kubernetes Article

The verification report is built with Charmed Kubernetes v1.21-v1.23 and eSDK(huawei-csi) v2.2.16. Project Overview Project background Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 all-flash storage systems are designed for enterprises’ mission-critical services. The SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture ensures hardware redundancy and fast service switchover ...


liam zheng
26 August 2022

Charmed Kubernetes and Huawei Oceanstor Pacific storage integration verification report

Kubernetes Article

The verification report is built with Charmed Kubernetes v1.21-v1.23 and eSDK(huawei-csi) v2.2.16. Project Overview Background Huawei OceanStor Pacific is an intelligent distributed storage series with scale-out capability designed to support the business needs of today and tomorrow. Its diverse and adaptable range of features provides eff ...


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 ...


Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022

The private cloud future: Data centres as a service

Cloud and server Article

How to build a future-proof private cloud that offloads the operational complexity and allows you to focus on innovation and digital transformation. ...


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 ...


Alex Chalkias
4 April 2022

Zero-ops scaling Kubernetes storage with MicroK8s and OpenEBS Mayastor

Cloud and server Article

This is a guest post, originally posted on Angelos Kolaitis‘ personal blog, reproduced here with his permission. Angelos is a MicroK8s software engineer at Canonical. How we brought a universal, cluster-wide storage solution to MicroK8s. Why is storage in Kubernetes hard? Kubernetes is well-known as an open-source system for automating de ...


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 ...