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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 infrastruct

Some people think Ceph is difficult, with a steep learning curve and a complicated maintenance process. But that’s not the case. Ceph has come a long way in terms of simplicity and usability. It also has a number of tools to make deployment

Businesses and organizations run on data, making data storage a key factor of any successful business. Your organization’s data should be fast, accessible and available when you need it. That’s why more and more organizations are turni

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 i

We here at 45Drives really, really love Ceph. It is our go-to choice for storage clustering (creating a single storage system by linking multiple servers over a network). Ceph offers a robust feature set of native tools that constantly come in han

Using Ceph for small datasets: Benefits In our experience, Ceph is the clustering solution. Ceph’s scalability, data security, and availability provide the vast majority of organizations exactly wh

IT professionals in law enforcement agencies are facing a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty.  There is significant growth in the amount of digital forensic data with an increasingly

We here at 45Drives are big fans of Ceph (as you may know). We even offer public and private Ceph webinars. Ceph is the premier open-source clustering software. It works by linking multip

We’re back with a brand new tech tip and this week it’s all about sizing large Ceph clusters. In this tech tip, Brett is talking to us about sizing multi-petabyte clusters and giving us

Our lead engineer Brett Kelly tackles a user-submitted question in this week’s tech tip! This particular user asked us to go over the new configuration that comes with CTDB 4.9. If you’

This week, Mitch gives you an overview of what Ceph is at its core, including a look at the components that are needed to make up a Ceph storage cluster. Be sure to check out our GitHub: https

Curious how you expand a Ceph Cluster? We can help! In today’s’ tech tip, lead engineer Brett Kelly explains everything you need to know when planning to expand your cluster. Don’

We’re back with another Tech Tip and this week we’re answering a question from one of our users. In this tech tip video, our Lead Engineer Brett Kelly goes more in-depth to answer a que

We use the term Ceph a lot, but have you ever wondered what it actually stands for? Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, gives a great explanation in this week’s tech tip! He also talks about CephFS and why he thinks it’s the best-distr

Some people are under the impression – if it’s free, it can’t be enterprise. We’re here to tell you that’s not correct. Although Ceph is free, it carries some amazing features that valida

In this blog and the series of blogs to follow I will focus solely on Ceph Clustering. Many people are intimidated by Ceph because they find it complex – but when you understand it, that’s not the

How to build a Petabyte cluster using GlusterFS with ZFS running on Storinator massive storage servers  If you checked out our recent video on clustering, you may have seen me keep a high-speed file transfer going, while I did just about