Ceph – an Overview

With the rapid market adoption of SDS (Software Defined Storage) it is only fair to discuss the much talked about open source SDS Ceph, what it is and how it could be used to provide an SDS solution today. What is Ceph (can be pronounced sef or kef)? Ceph is an Open Source Distributed storage…

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Call that a wireless network? Cloud controlled Wi-Fi changes everything

Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Every man, and woman, is an islandIn an age when the network must be all things to all men, and women, the complexity that comes along with making it just so can be overwhelming. The expectations of the business become more demanding every day. The next big thing…

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NVMe over Fabrics: the storage revolution

5x more performance than current day lightning fast SSDFirst there was fast, then came faster. Mellanox states: “The performance of storage technologies has increased 100 times in the last five years as Flash-based Solid State Disks (SSDs), and especially SSDs connected over NVMe, have come to market.” Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) provides 25x faster performance…

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