Best practices for CephFS
File storage is a data storage format in which data is stored and managed as files within folders. Why would you choose to use file storage? Well, the advantages of file storage include the following: 1. User-friendly interface: A simple file management and sharing system which are easy to understand for human users which makes […]
Follow up on Ceph
April 3rd, 2019 I posted a Linkedin article about the basics of Ceph, a cloud storage platform often used in combination with OpenStack. Since then, I got a lot of questions to explain a bit more of the mechanics of Ceph. As Fairbanks also incorporated Ceph service provider 42on, I started to dive a little […]
Object, block and file system storage in a single cluster
Cloud storage in your datacenter Storage growth for the coming years The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a report on the ever-growing collective world’s data, a.k.a. the datasphere. Numbers are staggering: the IDC predicts that the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes this year to a 175ZB by 2025, […]