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By: Benoit Loriot

April 7, 2020 11:32 am

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Move objects between Storage Classes using S3 Bucket Lifecycle Management

Let's take advantage of S3 Bucket Lifecycle Management to move objects between storage classes so that they are stored cost effectively throughout their lifecycle. We will describe the steps to transition objects between STANDARD and COLD Storage Classes after 7 days. Adding a Storage Class To add a new storage class named COLD to the […]

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By: Ulrich Schairer

February 17, 2020 3:11 pm

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SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 released for SAP Data Hub 2.7

We are happy to share the news that SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 on premise is validated for SAP Data Hub 2.7 with SUSE Enterprise Storage as storage backend. See SAP Note 2686169. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2686169 SUSE CaaS Platform 4 SUSE CaaS Platform is SUSE's product for a Container as a Service Platform. […]

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By: David Byte

November 19, 2019 8:17 pm

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SUSE and the IO500 @ SC19

Back in June we announced our first set of IO500 benchmarks.  Since then, we’ve upgraded SUSE Enterprise Storage to version 6, which is based on Ceph Nautilus.  This alone brought some performance improvements over the prior release, especially in terms of metadata and small I/O performance.  Add to this the change […]

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By: Andreas Jaeger

October 10, 2019 8:17 am

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Don’t Get Left Behind, Upgrade to SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 Today

In May we announced version 6, based on the Ceph Nautilus release which delivered new features focused on containerized and cloud workload support, improved integration with public cloud, and enhanced data protection capabilities. With the delivery of the code in June, this new release is helping IT organizations to seamlessly adapt to changing business demands […]

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By: Larry Morris

September 24, 2019 3:00 pm

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Persistent Storage for Containers: Why the Future is Open Source

Software containerization is unlikely to be at the top of the list of considerations for the average storage administrator.  First and foremost storage professionals are going to be concerned with every enterprise’s most pressing problem: managing the ‘explosive’ volume of data within the constraints of their limited IT budget. However, there are […]

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By: Larry Morris

August 27, 2019 1:00 pm

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Software-Defined Storage is taking over… Are You Ready?

Gartner predicts that in 4 years 50% of all storage will be either on-premise Software-Defined Storage (SDS) or in the public cloud – more than tripling from 15% today. A few years ago, IDC made a similar prediction, forecasting a compound annual growth rate for SDS of 13.5% between 2017 and 2021, with the […]

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By: David Byte

August 12, 2019 1:08 pm

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How You Can Make Ceph Better

Well, here we are, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 is out the door and seeing customer deployments.  Product management is happy, the engineers are relieved, and our customers continue to move forward with more advanced features, reliability, and scalability than ever before.  With this successful launch behind us, it is time to ask, "[…]

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By: Larry Morris

July 30, 2019 6:00 am

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Is the ‘Data Explosion’ Forcing You to Rethink Your Storage Strategy?

You don’t have to look far to find stats on how much more data is being created today, than ever before. The big tech analysts – Gartner, Forrester and IDC - seem to be in competition with each other, each trying to out-do each other with superlatives and lurid headlines. Their preferred adjective for […]

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By: David Byte

June 19, 2019 4:45 am

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SUSE on the IO500 List for HPC Storage

If you haven't been hanging around the Ceph world for a bit, you may not realize that Ceph was originally intended to provide a distributed file-system to service HPC clusters.  While this was the original intent, Ceph has taken a round-a-bout path to relevance in this space, especially given that we are only supporting […]

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