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Blog posts tagged
"ceph"


anastasiavalti
9 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu at Open Infrastructure Summit 2020

Ceph Article

When is Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: October 19th-23rd Where: Everywhere! This year’s OIS is virtual. Get your free ticket Book a meeting This year we’ve probably used the word ‘unprecedented’ almost as often as we’ve said ‘Linux’ and yet life must go on, and certainly so does tech. That’s why we were so thrilled to ...


Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Encryption at rest with Ceph

Ceph Article

Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how ...


Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

Ceph storage on VMware

Ceph Article

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware ...


Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Ceph Article

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was compatible with their ex ...


Tytus Kurek
1 June 2020

Open source software for open infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

Implementing infrastructure using open-source software significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) of your infrastructure. Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more companies moving to open source. These include Netflix, Uber, Visa, eBay, Wikipedia and AT&T. And this trend will only continue to grow. The migration is d ...


Sarah Dickinson
7 April 2020

The Wellcome Sanger Institute: sharing genomic research worldwide securely with supported Ceph

Ubuntu Article

A world-leading genomic research centre, the Wellcome Sanger Institute uses advanced DNA sequencing technology for large-scale studies that surpass the capabilities of many other organisations. Among other works, the Institute is currently heading the UK-wide Darwin Tree of Life Project to map the genetic code of 60,000 complex species. I ...


Alex Chalkias
24 March 2020

Ceph Octopus is now available

Canonical announcements Article

Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Octopus’ today, and you can test it easily on Ubuntu with automatic upgrades to the final GA release. This version adds significant multi-site replication capabilities, important for large-scale redundancy and disaster recovery. Ceph v15.2.0 Octopus packages are built for Ubuntu 18.04 LT ...


Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020

Ceph storage on Ubuntu: An overview

Ceph Article

Ceph is a compelling open-source alternative to proprietary software-defined storage solutions from traditional vendors, with a vibrant community collaborating on the technology. Ubuntu was an early supporter of Ceph and its community. That support continues today as Canonical maintains premier member status and serves on the governing bo ...


Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora ...


Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Cloud and server Article

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution. ...


Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS (infrastructure as a service) ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019

Canonical at Cephalocon Barcelona 2019

Cloud and server Article

Date: May 19-20 Location: Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain This second Cephalocon event will be a celebration of Ceph and share a number of insights into Ceph in operations. Among the 800 storage technologists present, you can meet the Canonical team, to discuss our involvement in the Ceph project, such as: Ceph inclusion in Ubuntu ...