How do self-encrypting drives fit into an open source storage server? Well, before we dive into the premise of this blog, for those of you not familiar with SED drives, here’s a quick overview: What is a self-encrypting drive? A self-encrypting drive (SED) is a hard drive or a solid-state drive that encrypts itself. How does a self-encrypting drive work?…
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…
High-performance storage is becoming more and more essential for many organizations. During the pandemic, we saw a trend where a diverse range of organizations began upgrading their data storage to incorporate a flash component. This happened for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it was to enable remote work, where latency was a key component. Other times it was simply to…
If you want the best performance and fast access storage, you're looking for an all-flash storage server. And because the cost of SSDs has significantly dropped over the last few years, all-flash storage has become even more affordable and adopted among various industries. All-flash storage servers like our Stornado offer significantly improved performance over HDD, cooler running temperatures, and decreased…
From customers to social channels, we've listened to your feedback to improve our server administration software, Houston. Today, we're excited to share our new Houston updates and features in this blog. Along with the updates, I also want to talk about the history of Houston and why it was important for us to build an easy-to-use system to manage data…
Let’s talk about a perfect pair — Proxmox and Houston UI. You’ve most likely heard us talk about Proxmox before, especially recently — now that we officially offer and support Proxmox on our 45Drives servers. We’ve been using Proxmox as our open source virtualization platform — particularly for our Ceph deployments, using Ceph’s RBDs, mounting them into Proxmox, then using…
Virtualization is an exciting technology that offers many potential benefits to a massive range of applications. Virtualization as a concept is ancient – it has been around for years, and its current position in the storage world is well established. However, in many cases, we’ve seen people who could be benefiting from it but perhaps fear the learning curve or…
Virtualization adds an abstraction layer between physical hardware and the systems and programs interacting with it. Having a virtual layer between your software and hardware provides huge benefits to many applications and potential future-proofing, flexibility, and resiliency to many more. There are a few big names in the virtualization world, and the largest proprietary virtualization software is widely adopted. However,…
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…
A single portal to easily and effectively manage digital evidence is incredibly beneficial for small to medium-sized law enforcement and legal professionals to help manage their digital evidence. Traceability and controlled access are vital for ensuring anything that may end up within a courtroom are valid and admissible. Law and legal professionals shouldn't have to deal with a "mess" of…