Philip Williams

Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store....

Recently, the team at MinIO moved the open source project into maintenance mode and will no longer accept any changes. That means that no new features or...

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll...

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure...

Date: December 4-5th, 2024 Location: Geneva, Switzerland In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at CERN in Geneva. After last year’s successful...

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...

The choices you make around IT infrastructure have great impact for both business cost and performance, across areas as diverse as operations, finance, data...

Cloud storage solutions can provide public sector organisations with a high degree of flexibility when it comes to their storage needs, either public cloud...

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...

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...

There is no AI without data Artificial intelligence is the most exciting technology revolution of recent years. Nvidia, Intel, AMD and others continue to...

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...

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,...

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,...

Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like...

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...