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Philip Williams
29 June 2022

What’s new in Charmed Ceph with Ceph Quincy on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Article Ceph

Along with the usual bug fixing, maintenance, and upstream version enablement work that goes into every Charmed Ceph release, we also worked on a number of new features in this cycle. Stand-alone NFS shares In Ceph, you can use CephFS for your network file share needs, but sometimes there are applications or use cases that

Philip Williams
29 June 2022

Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022

The private cloud future: Data centres as a service

Article Cloud and server

How to build a future-proof private cloud that offloads the operational complexity and allows you to focus on innovation and digital transformation.

Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022

Philip Williams
26 May 2022

Charmed Ceph and Hybrid Clouds at Cephalocon 2022

Article Ceph

UPDATE: Cephalocon 2022 has been postponed In just a few weeks Cephalocon will be held in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center, as well as online for those unable to travel. After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first gathering of Ceph developers and users in 3 years. Among the attendees, you will

Philip Williams
26 May 2022

Alex Chalkias
4 April 2022

Zero-ops scaling Kubernetes storage with MicroK8s and OpenEBS Mayastor

Article Cloud and server

This is a guest post, originally posted on Angelos Kolaitis‘ personal blog, reproduced here with his permission. Angelos is a MicroK8s software engineer at Canonical. How we brought a universal, cluster-wide storage solution to MicroK8s. Why is storage in Kubernetes hard? Kubernetes is well-known as an open-source...

Alex Chalkias
4 April 2022

Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Cloud Adjacent Storage

Article Ceph

What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage?...

Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Article Ceph

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially...

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Article Ceph

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every...

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Dell EMC PowerEdge and Canonical Charmed Ceph, a proven solution

Article Cloud and server

Here at Canonical, we have lots of industry partnerships where we work jointly, hand-in-hand, to produce the best possible outcomes for the open source community. From getting early access to next generation hardware to ensure Ubuntu is fully compatible when it’s released, to creating solution orientated reference...

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Philip Williams
12 October 2021

SUSE Enterprise Storage: What next?

Article Ceph

Late last year, SUSE completed their acquisition of Rancher Labs, and in doing so, has had to make some decisions on their product roadmap and ongoing support commitments. SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE’s software-defined storage product based on Ceph, doesn’t appear to have made the cut. According to their support...

Philip Williams
12 October 2021

Philip Williams
25 June 2021

Ceph for Enterprise, a shared mission.

Article Ceph

This week, the final week of Ceph Month, the Ceph Foundation announced the creation of the Ceph Market Development Working Group. Canonical is proud to be amongst the founding members of the group, alongside fellow community members RedHat and SoftIron. Open source enterprise storage The group’s primary objectives are...

Philip Williams
25 June 2021

Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021

OpenStack Wallaby: OpenStack Charms 21.04

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack Charms 21.04 release brings native support for OpenStack Wallaby and Ceph Pacific in Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack. Those latest versions of OpenStack and Ceph come with numerous performance improvements, making the open infrastructure stack even more suitable for network and storage intensive workloads. In...

Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021

Alex Chalkias
1 April 2021

Ceph Pacific 16.2.0 is now available

Article Ceph

April 1st 2021 – Today, Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Pacific’, a full year after the last stable release ‘Octopus’. Pacific focuses on usability and cross-platform integrations, with exciting features such as iSCSI and NFS promoted to stable or major dashboard enhancements. This makes it easier to...

Alex Chalkias
1 April 2021

Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021

OpenStack Ironic, Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store – OpenStack Charms 21.01

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 21.01. This new release includes: a tech-preview version of OpenStack Ironic operators (charms), Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store support for Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Ironic The latest version of OpenStack Charms brings initial...

Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021

Tytus Kurek
4 November 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Victoria OpenStack Charms 20.10 brings OpenStack Victoria on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (via Cloud Archive) and Ubuntu 20.10 with...

Tytus Kurek
4 November 2020

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