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Engineering deep dives, product updates, hybrid-cloud best practices, and customer stories.

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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 1218 articles.

  • Cloud Infrastructure (384)
    Foundational cloud infrastructure engineering: platform architecture, availability design, capacity planning and the operational practices behind a reliable enterprise cloud.
  • Cloud Security & Compliance (153)
    Securing cloud and hybrid infrastructure: zero-trust access, encryption, network isolation, and meeting HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI and data-sovereignty requirements on private infrastructure.
  • Hybrid Cloud (115)
    Choosing between public, private and hybrid cloud is a workload decision, not a brand decision. These guides compare the three models, show…
  • Cloud Cost & Pricing (100)
    Cloud bills usually grow in the places a price sheet does not show: egress, oversized instances and pricing that changes month to…
  • GPU & AI Infrastructure (86)
    Dedicated GPU clusters for AI and machine learning: LLM training and inference, GPU selection and benchmarking, GPU colocation, and cost control versus…
  • Atlanta & Georgia (72)
    Where your infrastructure sits changes your latency budget. These guides compare colocation and dedicated bare metal for Atlanta businesses, explain GPU server…
  • Bare Metal & Compute (57)
    Most workloads belong on a virtual machine; some need the whole server. These guides cover what KVM virtualization offers enterprises, how to…
  • Cloud App Development (49)
    Building and running applications on cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes and containers, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, microservices and cloud-native delivery.
  • Networking & Private Connectivity (46)
    Private circuits, BGP peering, VPN and low-latency network design: how to connect your data center, offices and cloud without sending traffic over…
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery (43)
    Backup strategy and disaster recovery engineering: RPO/RTO targets that hold up, immutable backups, snapshot design, failover runbooks and business continuity planning.
  • Managed Services & Monitoring (38)
    Managed cloud is only as good as the people watching it. These articles explain what 24/7 monitoring should actually cover, how open…
  • Cloud Migration (37)
    A cloud migration succeeds or fails on planning, cutover and what you tune afterwards. These guides cover how to minimize downtime during…
  • Colocation & Data Centers (31)
    Colocation is cheaper than replacing servers that still have useful life — if the facility gives you more than space. These guides…
  • Open Source Cloud (26)
    Open-source cloud infrastructure: Apache CloudStack, KVM and the open ecosystem MarQi Cloud is built on, plus what avoiding vendor lock-in actually means…
  • Cloud Strategy & Buying Guides (24)
    Choosing and evaluating cloud providers: checklists, comparison frameworks, the questions to ask before you sign, and how to plan a cloud strategy…
  • Cloud Storage & Data (20)
    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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