Blog posts tagged
"Storage"

73 posts


anastasiavalti
9 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu at Open Infrastructure Summit 2020

Article Ceph

When is Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: October 19th-23rd Where: Everywhere! This year’s OIS is virtual. Get your free ticket Book a meeting This year we’ve probably used the word ‘unprecedented’ almost as often as we’ve said ‘Linux’ and yet life must go on, and certainly so does tech. That’s why we were so thrilled to

anastasiavalti
9 October 2020


Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Encryption at rest with Ceph

Article Ceph

Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how

Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020


Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

Ceph storage on VMware

Article Ceph

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to...

Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020


Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Article Ceph

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was...

Canonical
15 June 2020


Tytus Kurek
1 June 2020

Open source software for open infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Using open source software significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) of your IT infrastructure. Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more companies gradually moving to open source. Our latest research conducted through The International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that 70% of businesses are...

Tytus Kurek
1 June 2020


Sarah Dickinson
7 April 2020

The Wellcome Sanger Institute: sharing genomic research worldwide securely with supported Ceph

Article Ubuntu

A world-leading genomic research centre, the Wellcome Sanger Institute uses advanced DNA sequencing technology for large-scale studies that surpass the capabilities of many other organisations. Among other works, the Institute is currently heading the UK-wide Darwin Tree of Life Project to map the genetic code of 60,000...

Sarah Dickinson
7 April 2020


Alex Chalkias
24 March 2020

Ceph Octopus is now available

Article Canonical announcements

Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Octopus’ today, and you can test it easily on Ubuntu with automatic upgrades to the final GA release. This version adds significant multi-site replication capabilities, important for large-scale redundancy and disaster recovery. Ceph v15.2.0 Octopus packages are built...

Alex Chalkias
24 March 2020


Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020

Ceph storage on Ubuntu: An overview

Article Ceph

Ceph is a compelling open-source alternative to proprietary software-defined storage solutions from traditional vendors, with a vibrant community collaborating on the technology. Ubuntu was an early supporter of Ceph and its community. That support continues today as Canonical maintains premier member status and serves...

Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020


Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS)...

Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020


Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Article Cloud and server

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution.

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020


Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Article Cloud and server

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and...

Canonical
11 November 2019


Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019


Peter Jose De Sousa
24 October 2019

Kubernetes storage options: StorageOS

Article Kubernetes

Kubernetes offers a range of storage solutions out of the box, but the majority of these are specific to cloud providers, for example, AWS or Google Cloud. This means that the options left for bare metal deployments are Ceph, NFS or local. “StorageOS is a newcomer to this area providing an easy to setup solution

Peter Jose De Sousa
24 October 2019


Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019

Canonical at Cephalocon Barcelona 2019

Article Cloud and server

Date: May 19-20 Location: Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain This second Cephalocon event will be a celebration of Ceph and share a number of insights into Ceph in operations. Among the 800 storage technologists present, you can meet the Canonical team, to discuss our involvement in the Ceph project, such as: Ceph...

Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019