Hi, everyone, my name is Kyle and I am a System Administrator in an American IT company. I speak English; as for coding – that would be bash and Powershell. I haven’t worked with any Software-Defined Storage solutions before, so LizardFS was my first experience. I have chosen LizardFS as its documentation was a little […]
Dear Community, My name is Marcin Konarski, and I am a new CTO of the company that develops the LizardFS software. The announcement of the new release candidate (3.13-rc3) for the project is a great opportunity to reach out to our Community and (re)introduce the project, the team, and the company. In this post, I […]
LizardFS is used for storing and aggregating data from many applications before it gets to ELK. Thanks to that configuration (Elasticsearch and LizardFS) we get storage with searching capabilities that are compliant with GDPR. Data aggregation due to security precautions is done from flat files. These files are later processed by parsers in Logstash. The […]
Put an end to time-consuming data copying: you only need one single storage system for providing media assets to every department and every application in your facility, from scanning to color grading, editing, compositing, VFX, and GFX – and everything else. LizardFS satisfies the most demanding requirements of media and entertainment businesses: high performance of […]
The challenges of big data are three-fold: data volume, data velocity, and data type variety. Big Data requires storage that not only scales but is flexible enough to handle a wide range of workloads ranging from real-time data processing and analytics to content delivery and “cold” data storage. With the ability to scale to exabytes, […]
Maintaining a high pace of innovation requires the kind of IT agility for telecoms that is only available in a software-defined computing environment. Telcos can no longer afford the kinds of delays typically associated with the procurement of hardware to accommodate new and rapid development. Resources must be instantly provisioned to support the responsiveness required […]
Financial organizations require highly secure and highly available storage capabilities to scale up and out. SDS offers tiered capacity by service level and the ability to provision storage on demand, which enables optimal capacity based on current business requirements. It also provides detailed metrics for reporting storage infrastructure usage. LizardFS proved itself to be a […]
Health systems and scientific research are benefitting from an explosion of information technologies to help run their facilities, improve performance, and keep costs contained. LizardFS can provide hospitals and research centers with uninterrupted data access, massive architectural scale-out, and game-changing application performance. Software-defined storage can be uniquely suited for helping healthcare organizations address the formidable […]
Georeplication allows you to have data replicated between two data centers located in different geographical locations. With Georeplication you can decide where the data is stored. The topology feature allows for suggesting which copy should be read by a client in the case when more than one copy is available. […]
Another feature of LizardFS is a transparent and fully automatic trash bin. After removing any file, it is moved to a trash bin, which is visible only to the administrator. Any file in the trash bin can be restored or deleted permanently. Thus, data stored on LizardFS is more secure than data stored on a […]
