The truth is, data storage issues can happen. One minute you can be heading to Thanksgiving supper, and the next, you're getting a call from your organization telling you that there's something wrong and no one can access data. Ever feel panicked? It feels awful, and when your storage solution goes down in the middle of the night, and you…
We strive to develop the hardware you need and offer the services you require to do what you do best — keep everything running smoothly within your company. If you’re a system administrator, we get it, a good day is when no one talks to you, and a bad day is when everyone talks to you. Well, our support team…
Change Management is Difficult for Many Organizations. Think of a time when you implemented a new piece of technology in your office or at home, whether it was software, hardware, or even something as simple as finally switching to the latest version of your operating system that you’ve put off updating until you had to. That leap from old to…
Data Recycling: What does that mean? For this blog and the topic moving forward, when we say data recycling, we are referring to the process of wiping hard drives clean of any pre-existing data that is contained on them. How do you do this safely and effectively? With a Destroyinator. So, what, exactly, is a Destroyinator? Well, if you’re not…
Data loss is a universal problem. Data loss happens every day, all day. Imagine a counter that keeps climbing and climbing, tallying the sheer amount of data that is lost daily. The numerical size of that would be unimaginable! If you're storing any amount of significant volume or in possession of data that you rely on heavily – for whatever…
When most people use S3 (Simple Storage Service), the first thing they think about is Amazon Cloud Storage. However, the S3 protocol is actually used in many places outside of AWS. S3 is used for interfacing with object storage over a network, by using buckets, keys, and operations. One example is how Ceph implements it via its RADOS Gateways (RGW).…
Mitch is back with another Tuesday Tech Tip! Watch this week's video to learn the five best practices you should consider for the administration of your ZFS storage pools. The best part is he tells you all of them in under 5 minutes! Check it out below.? Each Tuesday, we release a tech tip video that will give users information on…
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 tips on how to get the best bang for our buck. He also tells us how to set up our data storage so we can grow…
File system backup or snapshots, how do you know which one to choose? If you’re unfamiliar with backups – here’s a refresher. Backups are essentially backing up all your data onto another server. This means if one server fails you have all your data saved on another. To restore your data, it may take a little time as these are…
It's that day of the week again, Tech Tip Tuesday! In this week's tech tip, Mitch gives us an overview of the Network File System (NFS) protocol. He explains the background of NFS, why it's useful and gives us a mini-tutorial on how to set up an NFS server, client and mounting a share. Check it out below! As always…