How to prioritize sustainability in a rapidly changing IT world? | Fairbanks
We thank everyone who joined us for our webinar. The event proved to be a success, offering valuable insights and sparking meaningful discussions on prioritizing sustainability in the world of IT. Key highlights of the webinar : Comparing IT to other industries: Participants gained a deeper understanding of the IT industry’s position relative to aviation, maritime shipping, and waste […]
Free Webinar: How to prioritize sustainability in a rapidly changing IT world?
How to prioritize sustainability in a rapidly changing IT world? Learn about Fairbanks’ top 3 insights on how to prioritize sustainability and the perspectives of an IT company in a rapidly changing world. Key takeaways: The position of the IT industry compared to the aviation, maritime shipping or waste processing industry Trends, innovations and disruption […]
The Unseen Carbon Footprint: Data Storage and Sustainable Solutions
At the Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, a talk on the environmental impact of data storage was presented by Wout van Heeswijk, the CTO of 42on, and Wido den Hollander, the founder of 42on. You can view the talk through the following link: https://youtu.be/eAMWFJzLIc8 Drawing on their expertise, Wout and Wido shed light on the topics that […]
Cephalocon talks we especially look forward to
Cephalocon is right around the corner, and we have made sure that the boats are ready, the shirts have been ordered, the pastry chef is on stand-by and meet-ups have been arranged. If you have no idea what I am talking about, feel free to read our last blog that we have written about what […]
A talk, a tour and a surprise at the Cephalocon
If you have read our last blog about the upcoming Cephalocon, you might be familiar with the concept already. If you are not familiar with the Cephalocon or our blog, you can read it through the following link: https://42on.com/cephalocon-2023/ We are members! We are members of the Ceph Foundation as well as the Linux Foundation. […]
Detecting swap usage by Ceph daemons
Detecting swap usage by Ceph daemons TL;DR: In good Ceph architectures we prefer daemons to be killed, instead of being swapped. This behaviour is much more predictable, detectable and usually informs you about where to fix the actual problem. We use this method to detect whether Ceph daemons are being swapped by the kernel. To […]
Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands!
What is it?Cephalocon is coming up again, this year from April 16th to 18th. If you are not familiar with it you might wonder: “But what exactly is Cephalocon?” For instance, as the Ceph Foundation describes it ‘’Cephalocon is the yearly event that brings together the global community of operators, developers, and researchers for Ceph, […]
Ceph components and abbreviations explained
While more and more companies start deploying Ceph, we also see that the open source technology is adopted by more and more market verticals. 10 years ago, we saw that Ceph was mostly adopted in the university and hosting verticals, nowadays we also see major growth in the governmental, software development, financial, fintech, telecommunications and […]
Interview with the Fairbanks and 42on HR executive
At Fairbanks and 42on we just love open source! And 2022 was another beautiful year for us, filled with open source awesomeness and challenges. As a company we are always looking forward, but for this blog, let’s look back for a minute. To gain another inside perspective, we have interviewed our HR executive for this […]
42on looking back on 2022
42on looking back on 2022, by Wout van Heeswijk Now that the end of the year is near, Fairbanks and 42on like to reminisce a little on the past year. To do this from multiple perspectives we have interviewed some of our colleagues. Earlier this week we published the interview with Eric Kessels (CTO of […]
