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Use Vines to Learn QuantaStor in Seconds
At OSNEXUS we’re always trying to make it easy for our customers and partners to learn the many features that the QuantaStor SDS platform has to offer. We also realize that everyone is very busy and time is a precious commodity. To that end, we’re happy to announce that in… Listen ⇢
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How to: Universal Hot-spare Management for ZFS-based Storage Pools
A standard best practice for preventing data loss due to disk failure is to designate one or more disk spares so that fault-tolerant arrays can auto-heal using the spare in the event of a HDD or SSD drive failure. Universal hot-spare management takes that a step further and lets you… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor v3.14 Released
The latest maintenance release of QuantaStor SDS (v3.14) was published on December 30th, 2014 and comes with several new features. Some highlights include: Cascading replication of volumes and shares allows for replicating data in an unlimited chain-linked fashion from appliance to appliance to appliance. Kernel upgrade to the Linux 3.13 that adds support… Listen ⇢
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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 ⇢
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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 ⇢
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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 ⇢
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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 ⇢
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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 ⇢
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