Author: Chris Engelbert
Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership
Chris Engelbert
May 12th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to NetApp
Simplyblock stands out from NetApp and others with faster IOPS, NVMe support, and cloud-native architecture built for scale.
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Chris Engelbert
May 12th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to ZFS
OpenZFS is reliable, but simplyblock offers faster performance, better scaling, and advanced features for Kubernetes and enterprise storage.
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Chris Engelbert
May 09th, 2025 | 10 min read
Ceph on NVMe Made No Sense to Us—So We Built a 40x Better Alternative
TLDR: Simplyblock delivers 4x performance with 25% of the resources compared to Ceph. When it comes to software-defined storage (SDS), performance is more than just a technical metric—it’s the fou
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Chris Engelbert
May 09th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to Portworx
Outgrowing Portworx? simplyblock brings better IOPS, low latency, and advanced features for modern storage.
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Chris Engelbert
May 09th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to Longhorn
See how simplyblock stacks up against Longhorn and other top storage tools built for Kubernetes environments.
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Chris Engelbert
May 09th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to Rook
See how simplyblock outperforms Rook and other top Kubernetes storage platforms on speed, scale, and flexibility.
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Chris Engelbert
May 09th, 2025 | 3 min read
Top 5 Competitors to Ceph
Top Ceph competitors like simplyblock, Lightbits, StarWind, QuantaStor, and LINBIT offer better performance, scalability, and simplicity.
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Chris Engelbert
May 07th, 2025 | 3 min read
5 Top Competitors to Blockbridge
Blockbridge is a software-defined storage (SDS) solution that offers high-performance, all-flash NVMe block storage for enterprise applications and cloud providers. It provides features like fine-grai
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 13th, 2025 | 5 min read
New Apache Cassandra Release Saves 400% IOPS
On April 10, 2025, the Apache Software Foundation released version 5.0.4 of Apache Cassandra, bringing significant performance optimizations for all users—but especially for those relying on remotel
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 10th, 2025 | 14 min read
Kubernetes Storage Without the Pain: Simplyblock in 15 Minutes
Whether you’re building a high-performance cloud-native app or running data-heavy workloads in your own infrastructure, persistent storage is necessary. In Kubernetes, this means having storage
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