Blog posts tagged
"Storage"

73 posts


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


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


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


Jon Thor Kristinsson
28 November 2022

Open Source in HPC [part 5]

Article Ubuntu

Introduction to open source HPC focused applications and components.

Jon Thor Kristinsson
28 November 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


liam zheng
26 October 2022

Charmed Kubernetes and Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash storage integration verification reports

Article Kubernetes

The verification report is built with Charmed Kubernetes v1.21-v1.23 and eSDK(huawei-csi) v2.2.16. Project Overview Project background Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 all-flash storage systems are designed for enterprises’ mission-critical services. The SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture ensures hardware redundancy and fast...

liam zheng
26 October 2022


liam zheng
26 August 2022

Charmed Kubernetes and Huawei Oceanstor Pacific storage integration verification report

Article Kubernetes

The verification report is built with Charmed Kubernetes v1.21-v1.23 and eSDK(huawei-csi) v2.2.16. Project Overview Background Huawei OceanStor Pacific is an intelligent distributed storage series with scale-out capability designed to support the business needs of today and tomorrow. Its diverse and adaptable range of...

liam zheng
26 August 2022


Philip Williams
25 August 2022

Open-source storage for beginners with Ceph

Article Ceph

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over...

Philip Williams
25 August 2022