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… Read More ›
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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… 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 ›
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… 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 ›
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