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"Storage"

Philip Williams
20 June 2024

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
11 April 2024

The role of secure data storage in fueling AI innovation

Ceph Article

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: ...

Philip Williams
12 March 2024

CentOS EOL – What does it mean for Ceph storage?

Ceph Article

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, ...

Philip Williams
26 February 2024

Ceph Storage for AI

Ceph Article

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. ...

Philip Williams
8 February 2024

Cloud storage security best practices

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
5 December 2023

Edge storage with MicroCeph

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
21 November 2023

Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
19 October 2023

Ceph storage for Kubernetes

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
6 September 2023

Cloud storage for enterprises

Ceph Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
2 August 2023

Meet the Canonical team at stackconf 2023

Cloud and server Article

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 ...

Philip Williams
25 May 2023

Secure containerised Ceph with Ubuntu container images

Ceph Article

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 ...

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