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By: Alexandra Settle

July 5, 2023 3:26 pm

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Announcing Our New Strategic Partnership for Ceph Users: SUSE & Clyso

At SUSE, we have always believed in the transformative power of open-source technology and its potential to redefine the world of enterprise software. As part of this journey, we have had the privilege of contributing significantly to the Ceph project, while also offering an enterprise storage solution based on it. However, in the pursuit of […]

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By: Alexandra Settle

July 14, 2022 1:08 pm

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‘Contain’ your excitement: The s3gw is in town

The Aquarist Lab team is back with an open source and cloud-native S3 service. After spending months investigating a storage appliance built on Ceph, the team identified the need to complement the Rancher storage portfolio with their unique skillsets and lessons learned from their time developing Aquarium. Introducing the s3gw project, an S3-compatible gateway based […]

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By: Alexandra Settle

November 3, 2021 1:54 pm

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Inside the Aquarium: Investigating a storage appliance built on Ceph

A long, long time ago, a young man named Sage Weil had a doctoral dissertation to complete. He sat in his living room (I presume) and thought to himself, "How can I improve Software-Defined Storage?"* And so, Ceph was born. But the perception is that Ceph is too complex to use for […]

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By: Alexandra Settle

September 11, 2020 3:48 pm

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Ceph and SUSE making the first step toward Windows

Ceph is a highly-resilient software-defined-storage offering which has only been available to Microsoft Windows environments through the use of iSCSI or CIFS gateways. In order to bring the benefits of native Ceph to Microsoft Windows environments, SUSE partnered with Cloudbase Solutions to port Ceph to the Microsoft Windows platform. As of the 11th of […]

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By: Alexandra Settle

June 2, 2020 12:28 pm

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Staying Out of Trouble with SUSE Enterprise Storage 7

Do you ever wake up in the morning and think, “I wish there was somewhere that stored common troubleshooting problems for SUSE Enterprise Storage?” Do you sometimes sit in your office, blasted by the freezing air conditioning and say out loud, “I’d leave earlier if I knew more about troubleshooting cephadm![…]

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By: Alexandra Settle

April 25, 2019 9:15 am

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Beastly documentation: A SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 reorg story

Cloud 9 is a complex beast, and so is its documentation. And like any other beast, the documentation needs occasional grooming.       So for the Cloud 9 release, we put a lot of effort not only into documenting new functionality and addressing the existing issues, but also restructuring  documentation. Unofficially, […]

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