OSNEXUS is a major sponsor of open storage and gives back to the community with the free Community Edition of QuantaStor SDS. With QuantaStor v4.6 we’ve expanded the Community Edition offering to enable users to build QuantaStor Storage Grids with… Read More ›
Ceph
QuantaStor v4.1 Released with Global Namespaces, Ceph Upgrades and Solutions for End-to-End Media Production Workflows
The latest release of QuantaStor SDS v.4.1 is now out with many new features and major upgrades including the move to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr as the base platform for QuantaStor SDS, an upgrade to Ceph Jewel (10.2) for scale-out block and object… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›