Endpoint Protection for QuantaStor with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Oct 31, 2025

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stevejordahl

Nextcloud Install Using QuantaStor Scale-out Object Storage Backend

Overview Nextcloud is… “… the most popular on-premises content collaboration platform you can download. It scales from a Raspberry Pi with 2 users to globally distributed installations with tens of millions of users at major hosting providers.” Or, “… an open-source, self-hosted cloud storage solution that provides users with control… Listen ⇢
Transforming Tape to Object Storage with PoINT & QuantaStor

Tape has been a stalwart and cost effective means of backing up and archiving data for generations. But in recent years tape has started to give way to cloud based object storage solutions that are easier to interface with and recover data from using S3 and other object storage protocols.… Listen ⇢
Auto-tiering Ceph Object Storage – Part Two

In Part Two of this blog series we’re getting into the fun part of writing a simple Lua script to start automatically tiering (organizing) S3 objects into the right pools by dynamically changing the Storage Class setting on the fly as objects are being uploaded (S3 PUTs). If you haven’t… Listen ⇢
Auto-tiering Ceph Object Storage – Part One

S3-compatible object storage systems generally have the ability to store objects into different tiers with different characteristics so you can get the best combination of cost and performance to match the needs of any given application workload. Storage tiers are referred to as ‘Storage Classes’ in S3 parlance with example… Listen ⇢
Increasing Storage Security with 2-Factor-Authentication

There are many things you can do to make your QuantaStor storage system more secure (strong passwords, snapshots, etc.) but one of the easiest things you can do is to enable two-factor-authentication (2FA) that was added in QuantaStor 6.2. QuantaStor uses TOTP or Time-based One-Time Passwords for 2FA and it… Listen ⇢
The Problem With Jumbo Frames

The humble Ethernet frame, the packet, is sent and received across your network and across the internet in chunks, “frames”, “packets”, each containing just 1500 bytes by default. You’ll see this set in your network interface settings as the MTU or “maximum transmission unit” and it sets the maximum packet… Listen ⇢
Remote Replication Schedules (Disaster Recovery Failover)

Remote replication schedules provide a mechanism for automatic replication of changes to volumes & shares to destination Storage Pool. On the destination Storage Pool the copied volumes and shares are referred to as checkpoints and are easily identified by their _chkpnt suffix. Replication schedules run on a delay timer which… Listen ⇢
Seagate Lyve Cloud + OSNexus QuantaStor

Seagate Lyve Cloud provides a simple and efficient S3 compatible object storage solution for mass data. With QuantaStor, you can enable a NAS Gateway to Seagate Lyve Cloud and it supports both SMB and NSF – with no added QuantaStor license fees for data stored at Seagate Lyve Cloud. QuantaStor… Listen ⇢
Simplifying Media & Entertainment Workflows with Resilio and QuantaStor

Workflows in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry are all about collaboration. With globally distributed teams of artists, editors, producers, and developers it can be difficult to keep teams and data in sync. Offices and data centers used by M&E organizations are often globally distributed across different continents and this… Listen ⇢