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Rob Pankow
Oct 03rd, 2024 | 3 min read
Simplyblock vs Local NVMe Disk on AWS
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 remarkable cost-per
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Rahil Parekh
Sep 20th, 2024 | 4 min read
Origins of simplyblock and the Evolution of Storage Technologies
Introduction: In this episode of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Michael Schmidt, co-founder of simplyblock. Michael shares insights into the evolution of storag
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Michael Schmidt
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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Michael Schmidt
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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Rob Pankow
Aug 27th, 2024 | 6 min read
Avoiding Storage Lock-in: Block Storage Migration with Simplyblock
Storage and particularly block storage is generally easy to migrate. It doesn’t create vendor lock-in, which is very different from most database systems. Therefore, it’s worth to briefly line out
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 06th, 2024 | 8 min read
What is Erasure Coding: A Shield Against Data Loss
Erasure Coding (EC) is a data protection mechanism which protects against data loss by breaking data items, such as files, into fragments, and calculated additional data pieces (parity information) an
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