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To Deduplicate or Not to Deduplicate ?

Updated 19/11/2021 How Deduplication Works Deduplication, a feature we have in Open-E JovianDSS, sounds very useful and many storage marketing enthusiasts believe they cannot live without it. Admittedly, it does ...

May 09, 2020
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Open-E JovianDSS with Kubernetes support

The Kubernetes platform is currently one of the dynamically implanted technologies on the market. In the previous article, we discussed the difference between managing Kubernetes GKE VS EKS services. A ...

April 22, 2020
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Differences between a NAS and a SAN explained

SAN (Storage Area Networks) and NAS (Network-attached Storage) are both network-based storage solutions. These solutions differ but they serve the same purpose – to keep user data safe and accessible. ...

March 05, 2020
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New Open-E Certified Storage Solution – Meet the ultra-compact and fast SENYUM Supermicro 1U-STR-NVMe

Today, we’d like to introduce you to a high performing storage solution that helped our users to utilize software defined storage in the customer’s environment. Meet the SENYUM Supermicro 1U-STR-NVMe, ...

February 13, 2020
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New software update – Open-E JovianDSS up28 now available

Good news! Fresh from our labs – Open-E JovianDSS update 28 is now available for download. Read the article to learn about the impressive list of new features and fixes ...

February 05, 2020
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Kubernetes as a Service: Comparing EKS vs GKE

Kubernetes (k8s) makes the management and deployment of containers much easier. However, maintaining the platform can be complicated and expensive so many companies opt to use managed Kubernetes services. This ...

January 30, 2020
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Open-E Success Stories in 2019

Beginning of the year is a great moment to summarize the achievements from the previous years as well as to prepare plans, goals and strategies for the upcoming months. Well, ...

January 22, 2020
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ZFS Essentials – Copy-on-write & Snapshots

This article provides information about concepts that stand behind the copy-on-write mechanism as well as snapshots and clones used in the ZFS system. Copy-on-write On a predominant number of file ...

December 04, 2019
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5 Ways EBS Snapshots Can Make Your Life Easier

Amazon holds a bulk of the cloud services market, thanks at least partially, to its significant number of available services. One of these services, Elastic Block Store (EBS), is particularly ...

November 06, 2019
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ZFS Essentials – Data Integrity & RAIDZ

Today we continue the series of articles that aims at presenting the basics of the ZFS. In today’s article we’re further discussing this topic, focusing on the notions of data ...