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Author: Robert Pankow

Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership

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Jun 05th, 2024 | 6 min read

Simplyblock vs. Ceph: Choosing Modern Storage

When evaluating software-defined storage, Simplyblock and Ceph stand out as two major contenders. While Ceph has long been a default choice for many cloud and enterprise environments, its architecture

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Apr 30th, 2024 | 9 min read

AI Storage: How To Build Scalable Data Infrastructures for AI workloads?

AI workloads bring new requirements to your AI storage infrastructure, marking a significant change compared to the “ML era” of Big Data storage. The average scale of an AI dataset is multiple tim

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Apr 17th, 2024 | 7 min read

Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age

If you have services running in the AWS, you’ll eventually need block storage to store data. Services like Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provide block storage to be used in your EC2 instances,

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Mar 13th, 2024 | 6 min read

The Next-Gen of Storage Virtualization for Modern Cloud Computing

What is Storage Virtualization? Storage virtualization, as a concept, has been around for about 60 years now. However, it became more prominent and practical with the advancement of computing technolo

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Apr 05th, 2023 | 3 min read

Simplyblock for AWS – Performance Test

Introduction At simplyblock.io we have recently conducted a performance test on our NVMe-oF storage solution on AWS. The results showcase remarkable performance capabilities, solidifying its position

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Apr 05th, 2023 | 2 min read

Simplyblock for AWS – Whitepaper

Simplyblock has recognized the limitations of conventional cloud storage services, specifically AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) , and has introduced a groundbreaking alternative. This whitepaper prese

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Apr 05th, 2023 | 2 min read

Simplyblock for AWS (demo videos)

Introduction We have recently conducted a demo showcasing capabilities of simplyblock’s high-perfromance block storage on the AWS platform. The demo offers a glimpse into the seamless integratio

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Feb 27th, 2023 | 3 min read

Reducing cloud costs by 30%: a case study on relational databases with hybrid cloud

The benefits of a hybrid cloud operating model are obvious: take the best of both worlds . Flexibility, fast time-to-market, cost-effective high availability and a huge variety of great platform servi

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