Storage archives
32 posts
Ceph Storage for AI
By Philip Williams, 26 February 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,...
Cloud storage security best practices
By Philip Williams, 8 February 2024
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,...
Edge storage with MicroCeph
By Philip Williams, 5 December 2023
Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like...
Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans
By Philip Williams, 21 November 2023
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...
Ceph storage for Kubernetes
By Philip Williams, 19 October 2023
Opposites attract. Stateful and stateless. Storage and container management systems are almost polar opposites of each other. One deals with permanently...
Cloud storage for enterprises
By Philip Williams, 6 September 2023
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...
Secure containerised Ceph with Ubuntu container images
By Philip Williams, 25 May 2023
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...
Cloud storage at the edge with MicroCeph
By Philip Williams, 14 April 2023
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...
Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2023
By Philip Williams, 22 March 2023
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...
Create stop motion animation with Dragonframe on Ubuntu
By Rajan Patel, 1 March 2023
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was animated using Dragonframe, opening the door for incredible stop motion visual effects. Anyone inspired by the techniques...
Cloud storage pricing – how to optimise TCO
By Philip Williams, 19 January 2023
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...
What is object storage?
By Philip Williams, 10 November 2022
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...