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Author: Michael Schmidt

Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership

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Sep 19th, 2024 | 9 min read

Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes

When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance r

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Sep 10th, 2024 | 5 min read

Ransomware Attack Recovery with Simplyblock

In 2023, the number of victims to Ransomware attacks more than doubled, with 2024 being off to an even stronger start. Oftentimes, together with data encryption and the ask for a ransom to be paid, da

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Sep 06th, 2024 | 6 min read

Disaster Recovery with Simplyblock in AWS

When disaster strikes, a great recovery strategy is required. Oftentimes, deficiencies are only discovered when it’s already too late. Simplyblock provides comprehensive disaster recovery support fo

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May 22nd, 2024 | 10 min read

How We Built Our Distributed Data Placement Algorithm

Modern cloud applications demand more from their storage than ever before – ultra-low latency, predictable performance, and bulletproof reliability. Simplyblock’s storage cluster technolog

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