SUSE: PayiQ and SUSE Enterprise Storage 7

The mobile ticketing market reached US$ 1.2 Bn in 2019 and was anticipated (before Covid-19) to exhibit an impressive CAGR of 17% during the forecast period of 2020 to 2030. Adoption of mobile ticketing systems and apps to drive ticket sales, reduce reliance on printed paper and plastic tickets, and to encourage digitization and cashless payments are all aiding the growth of the mobile ticketing market. The transportation and event sectors will lead the way in terms of sales through 2030, thereby pushing the growth of the global mobile ticketing market in a big way.

Of the many improvements to Ceph itself, I’d like to point out three areas: Performance, Rados Block Device (RBD) and health alerting.
Listing of RGW buckets has been improved significantly. Recovery of objects is now much faster since only the modified portion of the object needs to be copied, this increases latencies during recovery.
Mirroring of block devices now supports a snapshot-based mode and cloning of a disk preserves now the sparseness of the underlying objects thus greatly reducing storage needed.
Health alerts have been improved, they can be muted now – either temporarily or permanently. If a daemon crashes, administrators can get notified about those. A newly introduced ‘simple’ alert module allows sending emails without using any external monitoring infrastructure.
A nearly complete list of changes is in the Ceph upstream release announcement by my colleague Abhishek Lekshmanan, who’s in charge of releasing Ceph upstream.