Federated Storage: foreign access to local files
This past January and February, I had the opportunity to work at SURFnet in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I met a lot of great [...]
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Advanced Swift Features: Part 3
This is the final installment in a series of blog posts covering the advanced features of Swift. All features require the latest version of Swift from the OpenStack Grizzly release. [...]
Advanced Swift Features: Part 2
This is the second in a series of blog posts covering the advanced features of Swift. All features require the latest version of Swift from the OpenStack Grizzly release. [...]
Advanced Swift Features: Part 1
This series of blog posts will cover some advanced features of Swift. All features require the latest version of Swift from the OpenStack Grizzly release. [...]
Understanding the CAP theorem
I don’t know why, but I’ve always been interested in storage and distributed systems, particularly systems that are the combination of both, such as Ceph. [...]
Hosting a website in object storage
With the support of Cybera, specifically its Amazon Web Services account, I recently set up the CanStack blog to be served from Amazon S3 object storage. [...]
Performance testing solid-state drives
Over the last couple of years, I have done a lot of performance testing with storage systems, especially exotic ones like FusionIO or OCZ Z-drive R4 PCIe-based flash cards. [...]
Increasing your computer speed with solid-state drives — got TRIM?
Earlier, we said solid-state drives (SSDs) have become much more reliable. [...]
Increasing your computer speed with solid-state drives — an introduction
Want, or need, a fast computer? Or an even faster one? It wasn’t that long ago when you simply bought the one with the fastest central processing unit (CPU). [...]