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September 23, 2021

File storage vs object storage in the cloud

File storage (e.g. NFS) used to be prevalent until object storage comes in for competition. The competition Traditionally, enterprise storage product lines are built around…

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August 12, 2020

Cloud storage overview

In a narrow sense, cloud storage refers to object storage. In a broader sense, it refers to any storage service (block, file or object level)…

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May 24, 2020

Docker Compose, Docker Stack and Docker Swarm

This posting covers some basic docker orchestration tools. Docker Compose Docker Compose’s predecessor is a tool called Fig developed by Orchard, which was acquired by…

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July 13, 2019

Storage Nitty-Gritty 3 of 5 – NAS and Object Storage

NAS (network attached storage) NAS server is dedicated to file-serving. NAS device runs its own specialized operating system that is optimized for file I/O, integrated…

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May 6, 2019

Storage Nitty-Gritty 2 of 5 – SAN

In direct attached storage (DAS), storage is server centric and the host owns the storage. The storage is fully dedicated to the server that owns…

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March 9, 2019

Storage Nitty-Gritty 1 of 5 – Disk and RAID

On my trip I have been through several pre-sales discussions on storage. Therefore I’m taking this opportunities to write up a series of postings deep…

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