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Enabling Bioscience Workflows with QuantaStor SDS
If you’re heading to Boston this week for the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, be sure to stop by the booth of OSNEXUS partner Silicon Mechanics (#360) to talk about QuantaStor SDS’ data storage and management capabilities for the biosciences. From accessing, collaborating and managing massive amounts of structured and unstructured… Listen ⇢
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OSNEXUS Releases QuantaStor SDS v4 Hyperscale File, Block and Object Software Defined Storage for the Enterprise
With the release of QuantaStor v4, OSNEXUS has hit a major milestone by enabling organizations to turn commodity hardware into global hyperscale storage grids with support for file, block and object storage. It’s our largest step forward in the evolution of the SDS platform. The addition of S3/SWIFT object storage… Listen ⇢
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The Easy Button for Ceph Deployments
UPDATE 11/28/2017 With the release of QuantaStor v4.4 this month we just posted a YouTube video that goes over the setup of a Ceph cluster in just 10 minutes using QuantaStor SDS. ORIGINAL ARTICLE Ceph is amazing storage tech. The storage equivalent of superfluid helium-4 , it continues moving under it’s own inertia,… Listen ⇢
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Integrating OpenStack with QuantaStor SDS
OpenStack deployments primarily use two types of storage: block storage and object storage. Block storage is used to provide storage for virtual boot disk devices and as data disk devices for virtual machines. Object storage is used to store virtual machine metadata and disk images used as templates to create new virtual machines. Images… Listen ⇢
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Hardware RAID is dead, long live hardware RAID.
UPDATE 11/28/2017 Although the benefits outlined in this article mostly still hold true in 2017- we’ve been going the route of using SATA/SAS HBAs connected directly to the drives for Ceph deployments. The main benefits of doing so are performance and additional usable capacity. With multi-site configurations using erasure coding… Listen ⇢
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Deploy a Scale-out Ceph-based Block Solution in Under Ten Minutes
According to ESG research, 83% of organizations are interested in software-defined storage, but only 13% consider themselves prepared to implement it using open sourced software and commodity hardware. OSNEXUS offers consolidated management, automated configuration tasks, and reduced deployment times for deploying scale-out block, file, and object storage over a… Listen ⇢
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Tracking File Usage in Real-time with inotify
Way back in August 2005 a really interesting file tracking feature was added to the Linux kernel (v2.6.13) and given all the interest today in data governance and security I thought it’d be nice to put a spotlight on it, it’s called inotify. After a quick bit of research it looks… Listen ⇢
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