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Feb 20th, 2025 | 10 min read

Alternative to SAN – Why Software-Defined Storage Wins in the Long Run

NetApp has been a dominant player in the enterprise storage market for over two decades, offering feature-rich SAN and NAS solutions but it’s time for an alternative. The landscape of enterprise

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Feb 19th, 2025 | 15 min read

Choosing the Right Kubernetes Storage Solution for Your Workloads

TLDR: Choosing the right Kubernetes Storage isn’t easy. As a guideline for the selection, make sure you have the best of hyper-converged (co-located) and disaggregated setups. Also, make sure that y

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Jan 21st, 2025 | 9 min read

Database Performance: Impact of Storage Limitations

TLDR: Storage and storage limitations have a fundamental impact on database performance, with access latency creating a hard physical limitation on IOPS, queries per second (QPS), and transactions per

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Jan 08th, 2025 | 15 min read

NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage

TLDR: In a direct comparison of NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI, we see that NVMe over TCP outranks iSCSI in all categories with IOPS improvements of up to 50% (and more) and latency improvements by up to 34%.

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Dec 17th, 2024 | 16 min read

Encryption At Rest: A Comprehensive Guide to DARE

TLDR: Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) is the process of encrypting data when stored on a storage medium. The encryption transforms the readable data (plaintext) into an encoded format (ciphertext) that