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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 ...

Events

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, ...

Open-E JovianDSS, ZFS Data Storage

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 ...

Backup, Data Protection

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 ...

Open-E JovianDSS, RAID

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 ...

Data Protection

7 Little-Known Amazon EBS Features You Should Be Using

Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to hold the greatest market share when it comes to cloud-based services, at least in part because of the significant number of options it offers. ...

Open-E JovianDSS, ZFS Data Storage

ZFS Essentials – What Is Pooled Storage?

This article is the second part of the ZFS series of articles and this time we would like to focus on the concept of pooled storage and its component parts. ...

Open-E JovianDSS, ZFS Data Storage

ZFS Essentials – Introduction to ZFS

ZFS stands for Zettabyte File System and is a file system originally developed by Sun Microsystems for building next-generation NAS solutions with better security, reliability, and performance. ZFS was designed ...