When designing storage infrastructure, having redundancy is absolutely critical as an insurance policy against inevitable failures. However, redundancy comes with a trade off in storage efficiency, which increases your costs. For large infrastructure, a few cents difference in cost per TB can result in significantly higher total storage costs. As a result, Erasure Coding within Ceph is highly appealing. We've…
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Ransomware. It’s a word we’re being inundated with everywhere we turn. And rightfully so. Over the last few years, it has become more and more prevalent. And definitely a bigger concern for IT departments. Every week, it seems like we read another news story about the latest attack on an organization — sizes aren’t spared, either. Ransomware attacks are happening…
If you've ever asked yourself that question, you're not alone. So what solution is best for your business and storing its data? Is it an on-location storage server, or are you better off storing your data on the cloud? Well, the truth is no one solution is better than the other because no two data storage needs are the same.…
Did you know that when you store your data on the Cloud, you hand over control over it? Yes, from a technical and legal standpoint — it still belongs to you, but let me explain. Unlike storing your data on location, with the Cloud, you never know where your data might end up. Cloud providers have data centers all over…
The truth is, data storage issues can happen. One minute you can be heading to Thanksgiving supper, and the next, you're getting a call from your organization telling you that there's something wrong and no one can access data. Ever feel panicked? It feels awful, and when your storage solution goes down in the middle of the night, and you…
We strive to develop the hardware you need and offer the services you require to do what you do best — keep everything running smoothly within your company. If you’re a system administrator, we get it, a good day is when no one talks to you, and a bad day is when everyone talks to you. Well, our support team…
Change Management is Difficult for Many Organizations. Think of a time when you implemented a new piece of technology in your office or at home, whether it was software, hardware, or even something as simple as finally switching to the latest version of your operating system that you’ve put off updating until you had to. That leap from old to…
Data Recycling: What does that mean? For this blog and the topic moving forward, when we say data recycling, we are referring to the process of wiping hard drives clean of any pre-existing data that is contained on them. How do you do this safely and effectively? With a Destroyinator. So, what, exactly, is a Destroyinator? Well, if you’re not…
Data loss is a universal problem. Data loss happens every day, all day. Imagine a counter that keeps climbing and climbing, tallying the sheer amount of data that is lost daily. The numerical size of that would be unimaginable! If you're storing any amount of significant volume or in possession of data that you rely on heavily – for whatever…
When most people use S3 (Simple Storage Service), the first thing they think about is Amazon Cloud Storage. However, the S3 protocol is actually used in many places outside of AWS. S3 is used for interfacing with object storage over a network, by using buckets, keys, and operations. One example is how Ceph implements it via its RADOS Gateways (RGW).…