OSNexus Official Blog

  • The Emergence of Virtual Storage Appliances

    Steve Umbehocker, CEO of OSNEXUS discusses with Jeff Dickey, CTO of Redapt, how the exponential growth in storage density is driving the emergence of virtual storage appliances (VSAs). Listen ⇢

  • Deploying a High Availability Storage Cluster with GlusterFS

    During the Paris OpenStack Summit earlier this month, Red Hat announced the latest version of GlusterFS, version 3.6.0, with new features including volume snapshots, erasure coding across GlusterFS volumes, improved SSL support, and rewritten automatic file replication code for improved performance. Today, GlusterFS provides the speed, reliability and features such… Listen ⇢

    Deploying a High Availability Storage Cluster with GlusterFS

  • Planning a Disaster Recovery Strategy: Automated Backup Policies for Software Defined Storage

    From a business process perspective, a “disaster” needs to encompass everything from application downtime or hardware failures to computer viruses and hackers that cause business disruptions with economic consequences that may be just as impactful as a fire or flood. The core pillars of any disaster recovery strategy must take… Listen ⇢

    Planning a Disaster Recovery Strategy: Automated Backup Policies for Software Defined Storage

  • From Smashing Atoms to Remote Replication: Using Ceph for Highly Available Scale-out Storage

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most complex experimental facilities ever built, is an underground ring roughly 17 miles (27 kilometers) in circumference, crossing through parts of both Switzerland and France, where speeding particles travel around at 99.99 percent the speed of light and smash into each other… Listen ⇢

    From Smashing Atoms to Remote Replication: Using Ceph for Highly Available Scale-out Storage

  • Why Enterprises Need a Software Defined Storage Strategy for Cybersecurity Forensics

    Earlier this month yet another major corporation reported that hackers managed to breach their firewall and steal information on millions of customers. This time it was JPMorgan Chase and luckily the breach was discovered quickly with no confidential information taken. “Security vendors and practitioners need to develop better products and… Listen ⇢

  • The Future of High Availability in Software Defined Storage: Ceph and GlusterFS

    Of any feature storage administrators could claim to be the most important of a SDS solution, it would arguably be High Availability (HA). To date, High Availability has been a challenge for many Software Defined Storage solutions because the traditional mechanism for High Availability failover requires the use of special… Listen ⇢

  • QuantaStor 3.13 now available featuring enhanced encryption management and one-step GlusterFS peering

    The team at OSNEXUS has been hard at work this summer on the latest release of QuantaStor and today I’m happy to announce that QuantaStor 3.13 is now generally available with new encryption features, one-step GlusterFS peering and inclusion of the latest maintenance releases of ZFS (v.6.3) and GlusterFS (v3.5.2).… Listen ⇢

    QuantaStor 3.13 now available featuring enhanced encryption management and one-step GlusterFS peering

  • Redapt – A Great New Partner

    We continue to grow from strength to strength at OSNEXUS.  With the announcement of our advanced high availability features we continue to attract top tier resellers and integrators. Today we announced a North American reseller distribution agreement with Redapt, Dell’s leading large value added reseller partner.  The team at Redapt… Listen ⇢

  • QuantaStor Updates

    We have been so busy adding new features to QuanatStor that we have not had time to share all the great stuff that has gone in already in 2014.  If you have not had a chance to check out our new HA capability in QuantaStor V3.9 I highly recommend looking… Listen ⇢

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