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Issue 8: Clustering Simplified Using Houston's Modules

Clustering Simplified Using Houston's Modules

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Issue #8

In this week's Direct Wire, we are recapping the most popular blogs, articles, and videos of July. But first, we have a new Tech Tip for you!

Weekly Tech Tip

How Houston's Navigator and File Sharing Modules Compliment Ceph Clustering

In this week's Tech Tip, Brett talks about how Houston's Navigator (File Explorer) and File Sharing modules compliment building Ceph clusters.

Along with our previous release of Houston modules, the ongoing theme behind these new features is to get everyone out of the command line and make setting up and managing your storage infrastructure super simple.

Utilizing these two modules together will be particularly useful for users who may have been hesitant to get into Ceph and cluster their storage servers.

Watch here!

Houston/Cockpit Module Release

If you were following our Tech Tips 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.

The new Houston updates include four new or changed modules that will help you administer your server, including:

Navigator
Benchmark
ZFS Manager
File Sharing

Our most popular blog of July gives details on all modules and how to install each. Check it out here!

Other popular blogs include:

Most Popular Articles

We didn't create this article in July, but it has been our top article since it was released - so we thought we'd share it with you. This article even comes with a video if you don't feel like reading!

In this article, our lead engineer tackles a commonly asked question here at 45Drives - how does ZFS do its read and write caching? Click the big red button below to find out!

How ZFS does its read and write caching.

Other popular articles include:

Architecture Flex:

DeadMau5

Check out this video of our friend Linus from Linus Tech Tips getting a tour of DeadMau5 Studio! See if you can spot the Storinator!

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We also offer private webinars that allow the members of your organization to have a one-on-one session with our engineers and data storage specialists and can provide an opportunity to explore your company-specific data storage challenges.

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