In early July of 2016, Colorado healthcare facility Allergy, Asthma & Immunology of the Rockies, P.C. (AAIR), was hit by a ransomware attack by an undisclosed strain. The infection appears to have affected systems that contain the valuable electronic protected… Read More ›
Security
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 ›
Hardware Accelerated Encryption with Intel AES-NI Technology and QuantaStor SDS
Simply put, encryption is computationally expensive and without hardware acceleration, performance goes into the tank. This is especially true with storage systems where encryption technology is used to encrypt and decrypt every single I/O to the appliance. One way… Read More ›
Assigning Network Share Ownership Using Active Directory
Creating Network Attached Storage (NAS) Shares with Active Directory using QuantaStor has always been an easy process, and now with the latest QuantaStor release we’ve made Active Directory integration even easier by adding new security policies that let storage administrators… Read More ›
Configuring SNMP Alert Notifications for QuantaStor Appliances
QuantaStor has always allowed for remote system monitoring using SNMP and now with the release of QuantaStor v3.15 we’ve enhanced the platform’s alerting and notification capabilities as well as security and privacy by including SNMPv3. For those unfamiliar with Simple… Read More ›
Enabling Strong Storage Security with TLS
Maintaining secure systems is not just an ongoing task but an increasingly important focus and practice for all IT organizations. The key for software vendors is providing timely updates that ensure strong security enforcement and keep up with the constantly… Read More ›
QuantaStor v3.15 Released with High Availability Site Clustering for High-Performance Block and File Storage Grids
We are pleased to announce the latest release of OSNEXUS QuantaStor 3.15, an update that constitutes a major milestone as it includes improvements for HA ZFS storage pools, and performance and scalability enhancements that will greatly speed up all deployments…. Read More ›
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… Read More ›