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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 of Ransomware attacks more than doubled, with 2024 off to an even stronger start. A Ransomware attack encrypts your local data. Additionally, the attackers demand a rans

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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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