Busy, eventful and incredibly successful. The only way StorPool can describe the passing 2017. Events In 2017 StorPool attended several Expos and conferences. The latest ones being the Cloud Expo Europe in Frankfurt and Cloud Expo Europe in London. We got the chance to meet many of you. To tell you more about disrupting power of software-defined storage and show you how …
CLOUD EXPO Europe Frankfurt 2017 Highlights
On 28th-29th November in Frankfurt took place the annual Cloud Expo Europe Frankfurt. Thank you for saving the date and joining us! We were more than happy to meet all the customers and partners there! Cloud Expo Europe Frankfurt Cloud Expo Europe Frankfurt was the all in one IT event in the beginning of the winter. There you get the …
OpenNebulaConf 2017 EU: What’s new with the fully open source cloud management system
Last month in Madrid took place the annual OpenNebulaConf EU. The event once again put under one roof some of the most knowledgeable specialists from the IT world. The keynote speakers at the conference included BlackBerry, Trivago, Runtastic and the Ministry of the Flemish community, as well as a talk on the topic “Disaster recovery solution with OpenNebula and StorPool” by …
Video Case Study: StorPool distributed storage – hundreds of times faster performance for SiteGround
StorPool’s latest case study is with one of the major web hosting service providers – SiteGround. SiteGround – a different approach in hosting thanks to StorPool A few years ago SiteGrounded decided to virtualize their servers and leave behind the old physical ones. Tenko Nikolov, founder and CEO at SiteGround said: “Performance and reliability at affordable price“ are the main reasons the …
Webinar: Power-up Your Cloud with Insanely Fast Storage
On 31st of October, completely live you will have the chance to join StorPool‘s webinar “Power-up your cloud with insanely fast storage”. The speaker – StorPool’s CEO, Boyan Ivanov will tell you how to boost your cloud performance with insanely fast storage. As well as, why distributed storage is the right storage solution for every company, which is looking for …
OpenNebula Conference 2017 – StorPool’s talk and more….
On October 23-24 in Madrid is going to take place the annual OpenNebula Conference. You will get the chance to meet and hear a lecture by StorPool’s finest – Boyan Krosnov, Chief Product Officer. The topic of the talk this year is “Disaster recovery solution with OpenNebula and StorPool“. Curious to learn more? Continue reading! About OpenNebula? OpenNebula is not …
StorPool and Intel Joint Webinar: Power-up Your Cloud with Insanely Fast Storage
A joint webinar by StorPool and Intel took place on September 27th, on the topic “Power-up Your Cloud with Insanely Fast Storage”. StorPool’s CEO, Boyan Ivanov took the mic to share insights about building storage solutions, which have profound positive impact for companies which build or run clouds. How to build a better cloud? The key element to building a better cloud …
StorPool’s best moments from IP EXPO Europe 2017
On the 4-5 October 2017 in London took place the annual IP EXPO Europe. StorPool was presented as an exhibitor at the expo and our team is happy to share our best moments from the event! About IP EXPO Europe The event gathered over 7000 visitors, 300 exhibitors and 300 seminar sessions. It incorporated six IT events under one roof …
Storage sizing and I/O density
There are several key things to consider when building a storage system. We decided to cover the most important and shine some light on the inner workings of a good storage system. The first case we’ll cover is on storage sizing and storage IOPS density per GB. The background Many companies go out to buy a storage solution without understanding …
Performance Comparison: StorPool “SSD-Hybrid” vs. “All-SSD” system
What are the differences between hybrid storage solutions “SSD-Hybrid” vs. “All-SSD”? Minor in terms of performance. StorPool has a unique way of building hybrid storage solutions. It is called StorPool “SSD-Hybrid”, which keeps 1 copy of data on SSD and 2 redundant copies of data on HDDs. I.e. for each 1 TB raw on SSD we the StorPool SSD-Hybrid uses …