Blog posts tagged
"ceph"

60 posts

Philip Williams
8 February 2024

Cloud storage security best practices

Article Ceph

Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation, if lost or exposed there could be severe repercussions.  Failure to protect against system failure could lead to the loss of business data rendering a business...

Philip Williams
8 February 2024

Philip Williams
5 December 2023

Edge storage with MicroCeph

Article Ceph

Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like retail outlets, remote or branch offices, filming locations and even cars. Use cases for edge storage include local processing, content collaboration that cannot take...

Philip Williams
5 December 2023

Philip Williams
21 November 2023

Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Article Ceph

Say goodbye to tape, and hello to flexible cloud backup. Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage. However, while inexpensive, tapes are inflexible. And when...

Philip Williams
21 November 2023

Philip Williams
19 October 2023

Ceph storage for Kubernetes

Article Ceph

Opposites attract.  Stateful and stateless. Storage and container management systems are almost polar opposites of each other.  One deals with permanently storing, and protecting data for as long as it’s needed.  The other automatically manages highly dynamic workloads, scaling resources up and down as required.   More...

Philip Williams
19 October 2023

Philip Williams
6 September 2023

Cloud storage for enterprises

Article Ceph

Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own

Philip Williams
6 September 2023

Philip Williams
2 August 2023

Meet the Canonical team at stackconf 2023

Article Cloud and server

Date: 13-14 September,  2023 Location: Berlin, Germany Join us for stackconf at the NH Hotel Alexanderplatz to learn about the latest developments in open source technology.  Find out how to accelerate your development and deployment cycles, and how to make your operations more robust and efficient with mature...

Philip Williams
2 August 2023

Felipe Vanni
27 July 2023

University of Alabama at Birmingham accelerates research with Canonical and Dell

Partners Ceph

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned public research university and academic medical centre that has more than 22,000 students enrolled, and 24,000 faculty members. UAB generates $12.1 billion in annual economic impact within the State of Alabama. UAB is committed to empowering...

Felipe Vanni
27 July 2023

Philip Williams
25 May 2023

Secure containerised Ceph with Ubuntu container images

Article Ceph

As we announced at Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, Canonical has started to make container images for Ceph available.  We received lots of questions at the booth about what it means to the average Ceph user who has or wants to deploy Ceph on Ubuntu.   In this blog post, we will cover the benefits to users

Philip Williams
25 May 2023

Philip Williams
14 April 2023

Cloud storage at the edge with MicroCeph

Article Ceph

Over the years, our enterprise data centre users have told us how much they love the end to end experience of an application-centric solution like Juju to manage their entire infrastructure.  Juju is a software operator framework that abstracts the specifics of operating complex software and makes it simple and...

Philip Williams
14 April 2023

Philip Williams
22 March 2023

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2023

Article Ceph

Date: April 16-18th, 2023 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at the Pakhuis de Zwijger cultural centre in Amsterdam.  After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first major gathering of Ceph developers and users in almost 4 years! Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be...

Philip Williams
22 March 2023

Rajan Patel
1 March 2023

Create stop motion animation with Dragonframe on Ubuntu

Desktop Ceph

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was animated using Dragonframe, opening the door for incredible stop motion visual effects. Anyone inspired by the techniques used in Pinocchio can make an animated movie using their iOS or Android device’s camera, connected to Dragonframe running on Ubuntu. Professional animators could go...

Rajan Patel
1 March 2023

Philip Williams
19 January 2023

Cloud storage pricing – how to optimise TCO

Article Ceph

The flexibility of public cloud infrastructure allows for little to no upfront expense, and is great when starting a venture or testing an idea.  But once a dataset grows and becomes predictable, it can become a significant base cost, compounded further by additional costs depending on how you are consuming that data....

Philip Williams
19 January 2023

Miona Aleksic
16 December 2022

Launch your own MicroCloud with one command

Article Cloud and server

Deploy your own micro cloud with a single command in just a few minutes. Try out the new significantly simplified deployment process.

Miona Aleksic
16 December 2022

Philip Williams
10 November 2022

What is object storage?

Article Ceph

Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very...

Philip Williams
10 November 2022

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