Building Exten: OVHcloud's Own NVMe Block Storage Engine

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Reliable and well integrated into OpenStack, Ceph has been our Block Storage solution for years. But in order offer more performance at a lower cost, we acquired Exten, and are now able to build our own NVMe block storage solution in C++ and Go.

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Originally published by OVHcloud Blog on 6 Aug 2026. Techarda links to the original rather than republishing it. Read the full article →

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