ZFS and Ceph, what a lovely couple they make!

Stable, secure data storage is probably one of the most important things in today’s data-driven world. With the ability to scale fast. Combining two great storage solutions provides you with all those in one. ZFS and Ceph are a couple that cannot easily be beaten! Why is that? The short explanation is scalability. ZFS is […]
Follow up on Ceph

April 3rd, 2019 I posted a Linkedin article about the basics of Ceph, a cloud storage platform often used in combination with OpenStack. Since then, I got a lot of questions to explain a bit more of the mechanics of Ceph. As Fairbanks also incorporated Ceph service provider 42on, I started to dive a little […]
Press release

Fairbanks, leading provider in open source cloud solutions, announces the acquisition of 42on, leading provider of services for the scalable, open source Ceph storage platform. With this acquisition, Fairbanks expands its service portfolio in the open infrastructure realm. Ruud Harmsen, founder and CEO of Fairbanks: “We have been managing and supporting highly available private OpenStack […]
Object, block and file system storage in a single cluster

Cloud storage in your datacenter Storage growth for the coming years The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a report on the ever-growing collective world’s data, a.k.a. the datasphere. Numbers are staggering: the IDC predicts that the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes this year to a 175ZB by 2025, […]