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Blog posts tagged
"Storage"

Philip Williams
19 December 2025

MicroCeph: why it’s the superior MinIO alternative (and how to use it)

Ceph Article

Recently, the team at MinIO moved the open source project into maintenance mode and will no longer accept any changes. That means that no new features or enhancements will be added to MinIO, and existing issues — according to the update — will not be actively considered. Whilst MinIO brought a solid developer-friendly approach to ...

Canonical
22 July 2025

Native integration available for Dell PowerFlex and Canonical LXD

Cloud and server Article

The integration delivers reliable, cost-effective virtualization for modern IT infrastructure  Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has collaborated with Dell Technologies on a native integration between Canonical LXD and Dell PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure. The combined solutions for open source virtualization and high-perfor ...

Canonical
25 June 2025

Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native integration between LXD and Pure Storage FlashArray. This collaboration allows organizations to combine open source virtualization with industry-leading block storage to achieve unmatch ...

Philip Williams
3 February 2025

How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph

Ceph Article

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’re talking data storage costs. Retaining and protecting data has an inherent cost based ...

Philip Williams
27 January 2025

How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency

Ceph Article

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the protection method used.  It is common to protect data by either having ...

Philip Williams
19 November 2024

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2024

Ceph Article

Date: December 4-5th, 2024 Location: Geneva, Switzerland In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at CERN in Geneva. After last year’s successful Cephalocon in Amsterdam, which was the first live event held since the pandemic, it is great to return to regular community gatherings . Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be sponsoring the ...

Philip Williams
16 August 2024

Managed storage with Ceph

Ceph Article

Treat your open source storage infrastructure as a service What if storage was like coffee: menu driven and truly service oriented? Everyone knows how quick and easy it is to order a cappuccino or cortado and have a friendly barista bring it to you in just minutes. Now imagine this is a user who needs ...

Philip Williams
25 July 2024

How do you select the best enterprise data storage solution for your business?

Ceph Article

The choices you make around IT infrastructure have great impact for both business cost and performance, across areas as diverse as operations, finance, data analysis and marketing. Given the importance of data across all of these areas and frankly, across your business as a whole, making the right decision when choosing a new storage syst ...

Philip Williams
16 July 2024

The guide to cloud storage security for public sector

Ceph Article

Cloud storage solutions can provide public sector organisations with a high degree of flexibility when it comes to their storage needs, either public cloud based, or in their own private clouds. In our previous blog post we looked at the economic differences between these two approaches. In this blog we will explore some of the ...

Philip Williams
5 July 2024

Ceph Days London 2024

Ceph Article

Date: July 17th, 2022 Location: London, United Kingdom In a couple of weeks, Ceph Days makes a stop off in London, at Canonical’s newly opened office at More London Place. Canonical is proud to be sponsoring this community led event alongside IBM. If you are unfamiliar, Ceph Days are one day conference events that bring ...

Philip Williams
20 June 2024

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Ceph Article

Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure.  Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of ...

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