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Use SGII and sg-cosi to provide access to AI in public cloud

2026-11-09 00:00 6 minute read

We have StorageGRID and all the tools we need - we just need to use them to share sitemap.xml and data to cloud indexers

Semantic and lexical search with SereneDB and StorageGRID S3

2026-11-04 00:00 6 minute read

Semantic and direct lexical search with SereneDB and StorageGRID S3 Markdown content

Ragdoll for RAG with SurrealDB and StorageGRID S3

2026-11-03 00:00 9 minute read

We use a NetApp Docs data set to show a workflow that uses SurrealDB (database) and StorageGRID S3 (content)

S2S3 Feeder for distributed NAS to S3 copying

2026-11-01 00:00 12 minute read

S2S3 Feeder offloads some of the work managing Rclone replication for larger NAS shares. This post shows how I do it and a simple walk-through with NFSv3 as ...

S2S3 v0.3.0 adds native Windows x64 client with SMB 3 support

2026-10-29 00:00 1 minute read

S2S3 adds native Windows client with SMB 3 support

New EPA 4.1 and Victoria Logs S3 tiering feature

2026-10-26 00:00 11 minute read

What is new in E-Series Performance Analyzer 4.1.0 and a look at Victoria Logs' S3 tiering (preview)

S2S3 - NAS Share to S3 copy utility

2026-10-22 00:00 13 minute read

S2S3 - what it is, what it does, how and why

OpenSharing E-Series data using Assume Role With WebIdentity

2026-09-24 00:00 5 minute read

Short post that explores another win for the thinking E-Series user

YugabyteDB with NetApp EF-Series storage

2026-09-21 00:00 15 minute read

We walk through TFM and look for tips and tricks relevant to EF-Series

SGAC v0.3.0

2026-09-20 00:00 4 minute read

Significant changes in v0.3.0

Ray checkpointing with BeeGFS and StorageGRID

2026-09-19 00:00 10 minute read

We continue from Part 1, where we explored checkpointing to BeeGFS, by moving checkpoints to NetApp StorageGRID

Enable PiT backup of NetApp StorageGRID buckets with sg-cosi

2026-09-18 00:00 7 minute read

Use sg-cosi to implement a poor man's S3 bucket backups with the fancy Point-in-Time feature

Ray framework with NetApp E-Series and StorageGRID

2026-09-16 00:00 14 minute read

Use cases for Ray with StorageGRID and E-Series

SGAC v0.2.4

2026-09-14 00:00 1 minute read

What was changed and why

DuckDB Quack server with NetApp E-Series

2026-09-14 00:00 9 minute read

What changes and what stays the same, plus setup and anecdotal performance tests

The elusive data mobility for tables with OpenSharing, StorageGRID, E-Series

2026-09-08 00:00 5 minute read

As we all know, data sharing in hybrid cloud is a solved problem thanks to S3. Here's yet another example.

OpenSharing Iceberg tables on NetApp StorageGRID and E-Series

2026-09-07 00:00 4 minute read

Run OpenSharing server using the S3 keys that still work the same way - OpenSharing uses the S3 key to generate static presigned URLs for Delta tables and vo...

AI and analytics in hybrid cloud with Alluxio and NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-04 00:00 7 minute read

Solve performance and data management in hybrid cloud use cases

Lakekeeper with NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-03 00:00 6 minute read

Why Lakekeeper with NetApp StorageGRID

AWS buys DuckLabs and about DuckDB with NetApp storage

2026-08-31 00:00 13 minute read

Good move for AWS, DuckLabs and users, bad news for Spark. Also, why StorageGRID and E-Series for DuckDB

Local agentic RAG with (only) NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-08-28 00:00 14 minute read

The post discusses the trend of hosting AI-related persistent data for agentic RAG on S3 object stores

Starfish Storage for better StorageGRID and BeeGFS manageability

2026-08-27 00:00 5 minute read

This post is a simple overview of features and benefits Starfish Storage brings to BeeGFS and StorageGRID users

AWS S3 Files, checkpointing with nvCOMP

2026-08-26 00:00 4 minute read

Do they matter and how to integrate with StorageGRID

LakeFS for data lake AI/ML management and compliance

2026-08-24 00:00 7 minute read

LakeFS successfully brings git and file-style management to data lakes

Datalake-ish RAG with (only) NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-08-19 00:00 7 minute read

The post discusses the trend of hosting all AI-related persistent data on S3 object stores

Auditing StorageGRID Cloud Storage Pools with SGAC

2026-08-16 00:00 14 minute read

The post walks us through audit log and extracting CSP-related data from it

OpenSharing Server with S3/RDMA-based Versity S3 Gateway

2026-08-10 00:00 3 minute read

Since Versity supports S3/RDMA, OpenSharing should support it, too. Let's see…

S3/RDMA with Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

2026-08-08 00:00 12 minute read

Getting S3/RDMA with Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp SANtricity as well as BeeGFS (BeeOND)

Directly access BeeGFS RST data on NetApp StorageGRID

2026-08-07 00:00 6 minute read

How to enable secure access to BeeGFS RST-tiered data on StorageGRID from anywhere you need

Achieving Full Stripe Width Acceleration (FSWA) on SANtricity

2026-08-07 00:00 9 minute read

How to write to a LUN and make sure FSWA is working on NVMe/RoCE

Kafka 4 with NetApp E-Series

2026-08-05 00:00 14 minute read

Tips and thoughts about using NetApp E-Series with Kafka 4

Containerized AutoMQ with NetApp StorageGRID

2026-08-05 00:00 2 minute read

How to run Containerized AutoMQ with StorageGRID 12

Eke v0.2 and NetApp StorageGRID as BeeGFS Remote Storage Target

2026-08-02 00:00 4 minute read

Eke v0.2 - upstream is breaking, downstream is fixing. Also about the RST stuff with NetApp StorageGRID

Object stores solved problems with data sharing in hybrid cloud years ago

2026-08-02 00:00 7 minute read

The myth of data sharing challenges persists. Object stores solved data sharing in hybrid years ago. And OneLake can use NetApp StorageGRID now.

What's new in NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 and sg-cosi 0.5.4

2026-07-25 00:00 4 minute read

Highlights of interesting features from the new StorageGRID 12.1 and sg-cosi 0.5.4

OpenSharing server for NetApp StorageGRID and E-Series with Versity S3 Gateway

2026-07-22 00:00 4 minute read

OpenSharing server for StorageGRID and E-Series with VGW done in Go

Eke - CLI utility for smarter data management with BeeGFS on NetApp E-Series

2026-07-05 00:00 13 minute read

Eke is my take on a subset of BeeGFS CLI features with some added goodies

NATS server with NetApp E-Series

2026-06-21 00:00 22 minute read

Thoughts on how to configure E-Series for NATS server in single- and multi-rack deployments

Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog with NetApp E-Series

2026-06-20 00:00 4 minute read

Why NetApp E-Series - for DB and S3 Object Storage - is all you need for Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog

NetApp volume content sharing with OpenSharing and Versity S3 Gateway

2026-06-17 00:00 5 minute read

After Tables, we evaluate OpenSharing API for NetApp E-Series Volume assets

IoT ingress, OpenSharing, Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

2026-06-16 00:00 8 minute read

We take a look at packaging JSON data for OpenSharing-ready serving with Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

Iceberg table compaction with E-Series

2026-06-15 00:00 4 minute read

Having fast and reliable protected storage helps

Does OpenSharing have anything for NetApp E-Series?

2026-06-14 00:00 10 minute read

Does OpenSharing matter to E-Series users?

StorageGRID bucket snapshots with sg-cosi

2026-06-13 00:00 5 minute read

How to automate creation of read-only snapshot buckets and credential rotation with sg-cosi

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS NVMe/RoCE with NetApp E-Series SANtricity

2026-04-28 00:00 12 minute read

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS NVMe/RoCE without DOCA with NetApp E-Series (plus DM-MP and VDO)

Proxmox Plugin for NetApp E-Series SANtricity

2026-03-31 00:00 11 minute read

Why SANtricity Plug-in for Proxmox 9 exists and why SANmox TUI is better

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with SolidFire iSCSI targets

2026-03-06 00:00 4 minute read

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS works with SolidFire, with some small quirks

Using S3 bucket snapshots in StorageGRID 12

2026-01-30 00:00 7 minute read

Branch buckets are bucket snapshots. Read how to create, use and delete them

Glances plugin for SANtricity in DAS environments

2026-01-26 00:00 2 minute read

NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.3

2026-01-21 00:00 4 minute read

About new Prometheus metrics and PiT volume performance

Kubernetes CSI with NetApp E-Series SANtricity

2026-01-20 00:00 5 minute read

CSI drivers you can use with NetApp SANtricity arrays

NetApp E-Series SANtricity CSI

2026-01-19 00:00 13 minute read

Community CSI driver for NetApp E-Series arrays: what it is and what it does

Big data & analytics patterns for NetApp object & block

2026-01-16 00:00 3 minute read

This posts shows an S3-centric storage architecture pattern

NetApp E-Series SANtricity Terraform Provider

2026-01-16 00:00 15 minute read

Provision storage in seconds with Terraform and E-Series

E-Series SANtricity Go client for Day 1+ operations

2026-01-15 00:00 1 minute read

Permissive OSS client Go library and CLI for E-Series SANtricity storage systems

Reautomating E-Series

2025-12-22 00:00 3 minute read

Notes for E-Series automation

Kinetica with NetApp E-Series

2025-12-22 00:00 5 minute read

Why put Kinetic disk and persist tier on EF storage arrays

Resource Provisioning on E-Series SANtricity

2025-12-17 00:00 4 minute read

About resource provsioned volumes and groups/pools

E-Series SANtricity Web UI lockout

2025-12-05 00:00 2 minute read

How to use (or not) lockout feature in E-Series SANtricity

TAPOUT - MCP server for ONTAP to E-Series migration

2025-10-15 00:00 4 minute read

Migrate to NetApp E-Series arrays with MCP

Post-Quantum API proxy for E-Series and SolidFire

2025-10-10 00:00 9 minute read

Enterprise-grade PQC TLS encryption for E-Series and SolidFire API endpoints

StorageGRID Branch Buckets and Read Cache

2025-10-09 00:00 10 minute read

Some ways to take better advantage of the new features in StorageGRID 12

E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.1

2025-10-08 00:00 1 minute read

E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.1 has been released with minor improvements

E-Series SANtricity Collector (ESC 4)

2025-10-07 00:00 8 minute read

About EPA 4 (aka ESC 4) and how to pick the right one for you

MCP Server for NetApp E-Series arrays

2025-09-13 00:00 9 minute read

Use case for MCP server for NetApp E-Series arrays

Containerized BeeGFS with NFSv4 and S3

2025-09-12 00:00 8 minute read

Revisiting that old idea for All-in-One BeeGFS stack

VMware license calculator for VVF and VCF

2024-02-18 00:00 2 minute read

VMware license options for NetApp HCI users in 2024