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…
Cameras are producing more and more data, especially with 4k transitioning into the new defacto-standard. With this explosion in data, there has been an increased need for large-scale data storage that is affordable and fits into your workflow. Chances are, if you're reading this, you are the video experts and don't spend all day thinking about data storage. The world…
We dropped a mini Storinator into the Reddit ocean and got a lot of ripples last week. This teaser photo of the “Storinator Jr” generated many questions about what this mini Storinator is — so let’s dive in and tell you all about it. This little project started when Jeff Geerling’s work with Raspberry Pi-based mini storage systems inspired one of our…
This new tool 45Drives' developed for deploying Ceph, creatively dubbed as Ceph Deploy, exists as a module within Houston that allows you to set up your cluster from within a graphical user interface. So what does this mean for our customers? With Ceph Deploy, our support team now has a streamlined tool to use when configuring Ceph clusters for our…
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…
Planning out your business continuity can take time, but it could be a significant cost-saver in the long run. Knowing the risks you face and how to deal with them is a big advantage compared to being blindsided and unprepared when your servers start failing. Regardless of how powerful your servers are, it will not matter if they're not running.…
Are you ready to get out of the command line? Because it's official - all four new Houston/Cockpit modules are live! If you've been following our Tech Tips for the last month, you would have heard of the new updates in Houston. The improvements follow a theme - get out of the command line and easily manage your Linux server.…
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…
Before 45Drives became its own company, its sister company, Protocase, began working with Backblaze, a cloud storage provider. Backblaze prototyped a large, wooden open design storage pod and engaged the services of Protocase to help bring their concept to reality. As a result, they had a functioning storage pod made from cold-rolled steel ready for their data centers within a year.…
You may have heard that Redhat is ending CentOS as the downstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) rebuild and repositioning it as an upstream build of RHEL. At 45Drives, we had a choice to make – what would be our new primary operating system (OS)? Why we moved away from CentOS/RedHat First, let's talk about why we needed to move…