Tag: Ceph

The image of open source software has changed. No longer seen as the geeky, slightly awkward alternative to mainstream software, it’s now trendy, fashionable and super-cool. Well, OK, it still has the geeky edge and it’s still all about innovation. However, it has grown and matured to the point where everyone from small businesses to […]

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Ceph 13.2.0 Mimic released on June 1. Just in case you missed it on June 1st the Ceph open source project announced the release of Ceph 13.2.0 Mimic and the introduction of a new Ceph Manager Dashboard based on the concepts and architecture of openATTIC. Here are some excerpts. To see the full press release […]

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Executive Summary Business IT is facing storage growth that’s exceeding even the highest estimates, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Unstructured data in the form of audio, video, digital images and sensor data now makes up an increasingly large majority of business data and presents a new set of challenges that […]

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SUSE® Enterprise Storage is a powerful, self-healing system for cost-efficient storage at scale. The SUSE Enterprise Storage solution is based on the Ceph distributed storage system. Ceph automates the storage process, storing and retrieving data in an object-based, fault-tolerant manner that maximizes disk usage and minimizes admin time. Your Ceph cluster is highly effective at […]

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The decline and fall of the enterprise array, and the open gate  for wider for SDS deployment? Here’s a few hard facts about the enterprise storage market from the bellwether of market share.    –          External storage – arrays – is the biggest segment at $5.4bn but fell 3.7% – a long term trend ODM […]

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6 Reasons Why Software Defined Storage Will Raise your Buying Power IT has traditionally worked out its storage requirements by looking at data growth levels and making a projection. It has generally paid for increases by replacing old arrays in an asset management life cycle and put new costs into specific projects, for example, paying […]

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Executive Overview: IRIS Professional Solutions wanted to bring the benefits of software-defined storage – high performance, resilience and flexibility – within the financial reach of all clients. By implementing SUSE® Enterprise Storage, based on open source Ceph technology, IRIS Professional Solutions gained a software-defined platform that supports massive scale with object oriented storage built on […]

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The next OpenStack Summit will be here before we know it and as a long-standing member of and contributor to the OpenStack community, we have proposed a number of sessions that we believe will be of interest to the community.  Covering topics from specific OpenStack project insights to broader integration topics of using OpenStack with Ceph, […]

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No matter whom you talk to from the Linux and Open Source community – ask them about FOSDEM, and you most likely will look into sparkling eyes and get answers just like “FOSDEM is probably the best community-driven FOSS event in Europe. It’s massive, chaotic and fun.” FOSDEM Ante Portas FOSDEM  stands for “Free and Open Source […]

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We keep hearing everywhere about the growth that the storage industry is seeing.  But where is this growth coming from?  Are the drivers of this growth still what they were a few years ago?  And what’s how’s the industry responding to that?  Over the course of next few weeks, I will examine the data growth […]

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