Hybrid and Multi-Cloud as an Operational Standard: Why It Matters

For many enterprises today, cloud computing is no longer a single destination. The old idea of “all workloads in one public cloud” is giving way to a more pragmatic strategy that mixes on-premises systems, public clouds, and multiple cloud providers. This is not just a technical trend. It’s a business strategy that delivers more control, flexibility, and cost effectiveness for decision makers at the top. What Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Really Mean Let’s break down the terms in business terms: Hybrid…

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Stop Buying the Wrong Storage

How to Choose the Right Storage Platform for Each Workload Every few years the storage industry reinvents the same lie. One platform that does everything. Vendors love it because it simplifies sales. Architects love it because it simplifies diagrams. Technicians hate it because physics still exists. Latency, throughput, metadata handling, failure domains and recovery behavior are not marketing features. They decide whether a platform is fast, stable or painful to operate. When storage is chosen wrong, no amount of tuning…

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Ceph is amazing. Just don’t ask it to be Lustre

(And Yes, It Can Still Power AI and SAN Workloads) Ceph is one of the most powerful open-source storage platforms available today. It offers object, block, and file storage in a single distributed system, with high availability, strong durability, and the ability to scale on standard hardware.That alone makes Ceph exceptional. But here is the uncomfortable truth: Ceph can scale massively and still be the wrong storage for a specific workload. Understanding why is the difference between a great architecture…

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