Author: Chris Engelbert
Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership
Chris Engelbert
Feb 19th, 2025 | 15 min read
Choosing the Right Kubernetes Storage Solution for Your Workloads
TLDR: 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 y
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Chris Engelbert
Jan 27th, 2025 | 13 min read
5 Storage Solutions for Kubernetes in 2025
Selecting 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 s
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Chris Engelbert
Jan 24th, 2025 | 11 min read
The 15 Top Infrastructure Management Tools
Managing 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 tool
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Chris Engelbert
Jan 17th, 2025 | 4 min read
We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage!
There 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 th
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Chris Engelbert
Jan 08th, 2025 | 15 min read
NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage
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%.
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Chris Engelbert
Dec 17th, 2024 | 16 min read
Encryption At Rest: A Comprehensive Guide to DARE
TLDR: Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) is the process of encrypting data when stored on a storage medium. The encryption transforms the readable data (plaintext) into an encoded format (ciphertext) that
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Chris Engelbert
Dec 11th, 2024 | 12 min read
Scale Up vs Scale Out: System Scalability Strategies
TLDR: Horizontal scalability (scale out) describes a system that scales by adding more resources through parallel systems, whereas vertical scalability (scale up) increases the amount of resources on
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Chris Engelbert
Dec 10th, 2024 | 6 min read
AWS Cost Management: Strategies for Right-Sizing Storage in Dynamic Environments
For companies that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for storage, having firm control over costs is key. Mismanaging storage can directly lead to soaring expenses and unexpected losses in a fast-paced wor
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Chris Engelbert
Nov 27th, 2024 | 7 min read
NVMe & Kubernetes: Future-Proof Infrastructure
The marriage of NVMe storage and Kubernetes persistent volumes represents a perfect union of high-performance storage and modern container orchestration. As organizations increasingly move performance
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Chris Engelbert
Oct 23rd, 2024 | 12 min read
Serverless Compute Need Serverless Storage
The use of serverless infrastructures is steeply increasing. As the Datadog “State of Serverless 2023” survey shows, more than half of all cloud customers have already adopted a serverless environ
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