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Isobel Kate Maxwell
24 April 2025

The hitchhiker’s guide to infrastructure modernization

Article Cloud and server

One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot of things, he got this one wrong – at least when it comes to infrastructure. As our Infra Masters 2025 event demonstrated, infrastructure

Isobel Kate Maxwell
24 April 2025

Philip Williams
3 February 2025

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

Article Ceph

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...

Philip Williams
3 February 2025

Philip Williams
27 January 2025

How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency

Article Ceph

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
27 January 2025

Philip Williams
19 November 2024

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2024

Article Ceph

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...

Philip Williams
19 November 2024

Canonical
15 November 2024

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release

Article Cloud and server

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process.

Canonical
15 November 2024

Philip Williams
16 August 2024

Managed storage with Ceph

Article Ceph

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
16 August 2024

Philip Williams
25 July 2024

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

Article Ceph

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...

Philip Williams
25 July 2024

Philip Williams
16 July 2024

The guide to cloud storage security for public sector

Article Ceph

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...

Philip Williams
16 July 2024

Philip Williams
5 July 2024

Ceph Days London 2024

Article Ceph

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
5 July 2024

Will French
29 June 2024

Maximizing CPU efficiency and energy savings with IntelⓇ QuickAssist Technology on Ubuntu 24.04

Article Ceph

In this post, we show that IntelⓇ QAT can be used in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to offload compute intensive workloads, maximizing CPU efficiency and driving cost savings.

Will French
29 June 2024

Philip Williams
20 June 2024

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Article Ceph

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...

Philip Williams
20 June 2024

Philip Williams
11 April 2024

The role of secure data storage in fueling AI innovation

Article Ceph

There is no AI without data Artificial intelligence is the most exciting technology revolution of recent years. Nvidia, Intel, AMD and others continue to produce faster and faster GPU’s enabling larger models, and higher throughput in decision making processes. Outside of the immediate AI-hype, one area still remains...

Philip Williams
11 April 2024

Philip Williams
12 March 2024

CentOS EOL – What does it mean for Ceph storage?

Article Ceph

Out of the darkness and into the light, a new path forward Back in 2020, the CentOS Project announced that they would focus only on CentOS Stream, meaning that CentOS 7 would be the last release with commonality to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The End of Life (EOL) of CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024,

Philip Williams
12 March 2024

Philip Williams
26 February 2024

Ceph Storage for AI

Article Ceph

Use open source Ceph storage to fuel your AI vision The use of AI is a hot topic for any organisation right now. The allure of operational insights, profit, and cost reduction that could be derived from existing data makes it a technology that’s being rolled out at an incredible pace in even change-resistant organisations.

Philip Williams
26 February 2024

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