Author: Michael Schmidt
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Michael Schmidt
Feb 24th, 2026 | 21 min read
The Art of Storage Performance Optimization
Building a high-performance and low-latency distributed storage system isn’t easy. Simplyblock spent years building and optimizing to squeeze every last drop of NVMe storage performance.
Michael Schmidt
Sep 19th, 2024 | 10 min read
Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes
When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance…
Michael Schmidt
Sep 10th, 2024 | 5 min read
Ransomware Attack Recovery with Simplyblock
In 2023, the number of victims of Ransomware attacks more than doubled, with 2024 off to an even stronger start. A Ransomware attack encrypts your local data. Additionally, the attackers demand a…
Michael Schmidt
Sep 6th, 2024 | 6 min read
Disaster Recovery with Simplyblock in AWS
When disaster strikes, a great recovery strategy is required. Oftentimes, deficiencies are only discovered when it’s already too late. Simplyblock provides comprehensive disaster recovery support for…
Michael Schmidt
May 22nd, 2024 | 11 min read
How We Built Our Distributed Data Placement Algorithm
Modern cloud applications demand more from their storage than ever before - ultra-low latency, predictable performance, and bulletproof reliability. Simplyblock's software-defined storage cluster…