Author: Robert Pankow
Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership
Rob Pankow
Feb 20th, 2025 | 10 min read
Alternative to SAN – Why Software-Defined Storage Wins in the Long Run
NetApp 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
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Rob Pankow
Feb 04th, 2025 | 8 min read
How To Reduce Your Cloud Storage Carbon Footprint
Discover practical strategies for data center carbon footprint reduction and storage optimization in the cloud infrastructure.
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Rob Pankow
Jan 28th, 2025 | 6 min read
Bare-Metal Kubernetes: Power of Direct Hardware Access
As 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 t
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Rob Pankow
Jan 21st, 2025 | 9 min read
Database Performance: Impact of Storage Limitations
TLDR: 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
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Rob Pankow
Dec 23rd, 2024 | 9 min read
Kubernetes Storage 201: Concepts and Practical Examples
What is Kubernetes Storage? Kubernetes storage is a sophisticated ecosystem designed to address the complex data management needs of containerized applications. At its core, Kubernetes storage provide
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Rob Pankow
Oct 17th, 2024 | 11 min read
NVMe Storage for Database Optimization: Lessons from Tech Giants
Leveraging NVMe-based storage for databases brings whole new set of capabilities and performance optimization opportunities. In this blog we explore how can you adopt NVMe storage for your database wo
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Rob Pankow
Oct 03rd, 2024 | 3 min read
Local NVMe Storage on AWS – Pros and Cons
What is the Best Storage Solution on AWS? The debate over the optimal storage solution has been ongoing. Local instance storage on AWS (i.e. ephemeral NVMe disk attached to EC2 instance) brings remark
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Rob Pankow
Sep 12th, 2024 | 13 min read
RDS vs. EKS: The True Cost of Database Management
Databases can make up a significant portion of the costs for a variety of businesses and enterprises, and in particular for SaaS, Fintech, or E-commerce & Retail verticals. Choosing the right data
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Rob Pankow
Sep 12th, 2024 | 7 min read
AWS Migration: How to Migrate into the Cloud? Data Storage Perspective.
Migrating to the cloud can be daunting, but it becomes a manageable and rewarding process with the right approach and understanding of the storage perspective. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a compr
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Rob Pankow
Sep 12th, 2024 | 6 min read
What is the AWS Workload Migration Program and how simplyblock can help you with cloud migration?
What is the AWS Workload Migration Program? The AWS Workload Migration Program is a comprehensive framework designed to help organizations migrate their workloads to the AWS cloud efficiently and effe
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