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Frequently asked questions

What does the MarQi Cloud blog cover?

Engineering deep dives, product updates, hybrid-cloud best practices and customer stories — organised into topic hubs covering storage, GPU and AI infrastructure, networking, cloud cost, migration, compliance and colocation.

Who writes these articles?

The MarQi Cloud team in Alpharetta, Georgia. Articles describe the actual open source components in use — KVM, Ceph, CloudStack, WireGuard — rather than a proprietary abstraction.

How do I find articles on a specific topic?

Browse by topic from this page, or use the full article index for a complete list of everything published.

Are the technical claims specific to MarQi Cloud?

Some articles are platform-specific and say so; most cover general infrastructure trade-offs — protocol choices, storage design, cost modelling — that apply regardless of provider.

Browse by Topic

17 engineering topics across 892 articles.

  • Cloud Infrastructure (209)
    Foundational cloud infrastructure engineering: platform architecture, availability design, capacity planning and the operational practices behind a reliable enterprise cloud.
  • Hybrid Cloud (110)
    Hybrid cloud architecture, design patterns and operations: one VPC across MarQi Cloud and your own hardware, multi-cloud portability, and workload placement between…
  • Cloud Cost & Pricing (91)
    Cloud economics without the surprises: egress fees, right-sizing, reserved capacity, FinOps practice and transparent pricing models for predictable infrastructure budgets.
  • GPU & AI Infrastructure (84)
    Dedicated GPU clusters for AI and machine learning: LLM training and inference, GPU selection and benchmarking, GPU colocation, and cost control versus…
  • Atlanta & Georgia (74)
    Cloud, GPU hosting and colocation in Atlanta, Alpharetta and across Georgia — regional latency, local data center options and why Southeast infrastructure…
  • Cloud Security & Compliance (61)
    Securing cloud and hybrid infrastructure: zero-trust access, encryption, network isolation, and meeting HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI and data-sovereignty requirements on private infrastructure.
  • Bare Metal & Compute (56)
    Compute platform engineering: KVM virtualization, bare metal servers, cloud VPS sizing, hypervisor tuning and performance benchmarking for production workloads.
  • Networking & Private Connectivity (42)
    Private circuits, BGP peering, VPN and low-latency network design: how to connect your data center, offices and cloud without sending traffic over…
  • Cloud App Development (38)
    Building and running applications on cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes and containers, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, microservices and cloud-native delivery.
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery (38)
    Backup strategy and disaster recovery engineering: RPO/RTO targets that hold up, immutable backups, snapshot design, failover runbooks and business continuity planning.
  • Cloud Migration (32)
    Moving workloads with control: migration planning, blue/green and cutover strategies, VMware-to-KVM transitions, and cloud repatriation from hyperscalers.
  • Colocation & Data Centers (31)
    Colocation and data center operations: bringing your own hardware, rack and power planning, cooling for GPU density, remote hands and facility security.
  • Open Source Cloud (26)
    Open-source cloud infrastructure: OpenStack, KVM and the open ecosystem MarQi Cloud is built on, plus what avoiding vendor lock-in actually means in…
  • Cloud Strategy & Buying Guides (25)
    Choosing and evaluating cloud providers: checklists, comparison frameworks, the questions to ask before you sign, and how to plan a cloud strategy…
  • Managed Services & Monitoring (24)
    Managed cloud operations: 24/7 monitoring, observability stacks, SLAs, incident response and what white-glove infrastructure support should actually include.
  • Cloud Storage & Data (16)
    Enterprise storage engineering: block, object and file storage, NVMe over Fabrics and iSCSI, cloud SAN design, high-IOPS workloads and replication strategy.
  • IT Infrastructure Modernization (5)
    Modernizing legacy IT estates: hardware refresh cycles, replacing end-of-life platforms, and moving from legacy virtualization to a modern open cloud stack.

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