If you’ll be in Salt Lake City for KubeCon, don’t miss our Breakfast Bytes event, hosted by simplyblock! We’re serving up breakfast along with some exciting conversations about Cloud, Kubernetes, AI, Databases, and Storage. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect with founders, investors, and cloud-native enthusiasts over some great food!

Attention: Due to unexpectedly high demand for the Thursday breakfast, we decided to change plans and get a bigger venue for Thursday. In consequence, we also decided to cancel the Friday breakfast. If you’ve signed up for Friday, you’ll receive a priority invite for Thursday. If you wanted to sign up for Friday, please consider signing up for Thursday.

🗓️ Event Details:

• Date: 14th November 2024
• Time: 07:30 AM – 09:00 AM (MST)
• Location: To be revealed soon, but very close to the conference hall!

We’ve got two breakfast events lined up, but you can only register for one. Choose the date that works best for you:

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​While Kubernetes offers deployment flexibility, autoscaling, and operational benefits, running PostgreSQL on K8s introduces some unique challenges.

​What to Expect: This session will walk you through the best practices for setting up and managing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, while highlighting common pitfalls to avoid.

​Speaker:
Chris Engelbert, Chief Database Solutions Architect/Chief Developer Advocate at Simplyblock. With extensive experience in backend technologies and performance engineering, Chris has worked with industry leaders such as Ubisoft, Hazelcast, and Timescale.

🎥 Get access to the webinar recording.

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Drop by our booth on November 5th and learn how simplyblock enables you to improve your disaster recovery and ransomware mitigation strategies. Our team is looking forward to meet with you!

If you prefer a one-on-one meeting, feel free to book your slot accordingly.

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Abstract:

As Kubernetes continues to revolutionize container orchestration, efficient storage management becomes crucial. This session, “Streamlining Storage Lifecycle Automation in Kubernetes: A SPDK-CSI Use Case,” explores how the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) integrated through the Container Storage Interface (CSI) enhances storage performance and simplifies management in Kubernetes environments.

Since we know that not everybody had the chance to join him, you can download the presentation now.

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Come by our booth (T57), right next to the t-shirt pickup. Our team is looking forward to meet with you!

Looking to mingle in smaller group? Join us for breakfast event on Nov 14th before the conference – sign-up here.

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Abstract:

For more than two decades, iSCSI was the go-to protocol standard for remote block storage over commodity network hardware, utilizing normal Ethernet networks, hence mitigating specialist hardware, saving cost, and providing a much lower entry barrier than Fibre Channel or Infiniband.

However, the underlying storage technologies made leaps during that time, and today iSCSI is often a bottleneck for high-performance storage deployments, backed by SSDs or NVMe. Therefore, the NVMe Express group defined the NVMe over Fabrics protocol family, with NVMe over TCP being at the forefront to replace iSCSI, while offering lower latency, higher throughput, and less protocol overhead.

Let’s dive into NVMe, NVMe over TCP, and how it’s superior to iSCSI, as well as the support landscape.

Since we know that not everybody had the chance to join him, you can download the presentation now.
See the recording from SRECon Europe 2024.

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Simplyblock offers a compelling alternative to Amazon EBS by enabling customers to build their own Elastic Block Storage using our VASH™ technology.

The core architecture revolves around a cluster-based infrastructure, ensuring remarkable reliability, durability, and availability. With automated self-healing capabilities and zero-downtime scalability, simplyblock enables smooth operations without compromising performance or data integrity. Our unique approach empowers users to optimize resource utilization and achieve significant cost savings, making it an ideal choice for organizations with demanding workloads and stringent performance requirements.

Download our “simplyblock vs Amazon EBS” whitepaper and see the full details of how we achieve cost savings of 60% and more.

Download: Whitepaper

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Presentation Abstract

Simplyblock builds a distributed block storage system, which is fully containerized, runs on most virtualization platforms and clouds, and is currently optimized for AWS environments. The technology is built to fully utilize local NVMe IOPS and provide low storage access latency (less than 200 microseconds over the network). Virtual volumes are highly available and protected by erasure coding. Simplyblock clusters are self-balancing and highly scalable. For this purpose, we use a distributed data placement algorithm. In this session, we plan to discuss the common challenges of a distributed architecture for reliable, self-balancing storage scale-out, specific challenges in the context of low latency and high IOPS density, NVMe/TCP and NVMe-oF multipathing, and present the design of a new algorithm to overcome them.

You can download the presentation now or see the recording on Youtube.

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Abstract:

Running databases in containers has been the biggest anti-pattern of the last decade. The world, however, moves on, and stateful container workloads become more common, and so have databases in Kubernetes. People love the additional convenience when it comes to deployment, scalability, and operation.

With PostgreSQL on its way to becoming the world’s most beloved database, there certainly are quite some things to keep in mind when running it on k8s. Let us evaluate the important Dos and especially the Don’ts.

Since we know that not everybody had the chance to join him, you can download the presentation now.

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