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📅 Updated for 2025 | Read Time: 6 min Enterprises today generate and manage petabytes of data, with storage demands growing exponentially. Traditional hardware-based storage solutions lack flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency, making Software-Defined Storage (SDS) the go-to solution for modern IT infrastructures. As of 2024, the global SDS market is projected to reach $46 […]
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26.2.2025 12:02Top 5 Open Source Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Tools for EnterprisesNetApp 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 storage is changing. Enterprises are no longer just evaluating storage solutions based on upfront costs—because traditional SAN vendors, including NetApp, now offer competitively priced […]
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20.2.2025 11:11Alternative to SAN – Why Software-Defined Storage Wins in the Long RunTLDR: 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 your selected Kubernetes storage solution provides support for data encryption at rest and the necessary scalability for your growing use cases. As a rule of […]
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19.2.2025 14:44Choosing the Right Kubernetes Storage Solution for Your WorkloadsDiscover practical strategies for data center carbon footprint reduction and storage optimization in the cloud infrastructure.
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4.2.2025 13:50How To Reduce Your Cloud Storage Carbon FootprintAs of 2025, over 90% of enterprises have adopted Kubernetes. The technology has matured, and the ecosystem around containerization technologies is richer than ever. More platform teams are realizing the tangible benefits of running containerized workloads directly on bare-metal Kubernetes infrastructure, especially when compared to virtualized environments like VMware or OpenStack. This shift is particularly […]
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28.1.2025 14:56Bare-Metal Kubernetes: Power of Direct Hardware AccessSelecting your Kubernetes persistent storage may be tough due to the many available options. Not all are geared towards enterprise setups, though. Hence, we would like to briefly introduce 5 storage solutions for Kubernetes that may meet your enterprise’s diverse storage needs. That said, as Kubernetes adoption keeps growing in 2025, selecting the right storage […]
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27.1.2025 13:045 Storage Solutions for Kubernetes in 2025Managing cloud and on-prem infrastructures is crucial for business operations. Hence, infrastructure management tools have become the norm to help operate on-premise and cloud environments. These tools provide a comprehensive suite of tools for provisioning, operating, managing, and monitoring infrastructure resources. What are Infrastructure Management Tools? Infrastructure management tools help businesses efficiently oversee their cloud […]
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24.1.2025 10:09The 15 Top Infrastructure Management ToolsTLDR: 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 second (TPS). With the rise of the cloud-native world of microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems, understanding storage physics has never been more critical. As organizations […]
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21.1.2025 07:47Database Performance: Impact of Storage LimitationsThere is one question in life that is really hard to answer: “What is your actual AWS EBS volume usage?” When talking to customers and users, this question is frequently left open with the note that they’ll check and tell us later. With storage being one of the main cost factors of cloud services such […]
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17.1.2025 08:50We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!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%. When data grows, storage needs to grow, too. That’s when remotely attached SAN (Storage Area Network) systems […]
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8.1.2025 14:27NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage