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How to Choose Kubernetes Storage for High IOPS Workloads
A practical comparison of cloud volumes, NKS with ABS, OpenEBS, Rook/Ceph and Portworx, with a test plan for sustained performance and application recovery.
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Which Cloud Is Best for Long-Running AI Agents?
Choose agent hosting by the work it preserves. Compare persistence, recovery, operating models and cost, with clearly scoped Nirvana benchmark evidence.
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What Is a Harness? The Agent, The Model, the Harness, and the Sandbox
An agent harness turns a model's decisions into action: it runs the loop, executes each tool call, keeps the notes and calls time. The word is new, the thing is not. What changed in 2026 is that OpenAI, Vercel and LangChain started selling it.
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Long-running agents: from RAM to disk.
LangChain: when a worker crashes, another worker picks it up from the latest checkpoint. There are two ways to build that. One creates in 80ms and loses everything since the last pause. The other starts slower and kept 5,501 of 5,501 checkpoints through an ungraceful kill.
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The expensive way to buy IOPS
If your storage bill is mostly meter, you paid the expensive way. Clouds price capacity cheap and meter IOPS on top: 60% of the bill at 20K IOPS, 84% at 80K, 91% on io2. Which workloads hit the meter, what it costs them, and whether yours should move.
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Nirvana: The High Performance Storage Cloud
Why Nirvana is the High Performance Storage Cloud: purpose-built ABS with 20,000 sustained IOPS included, benchmarks against gp3 and io2, who runs on it, and what opens in Q4.
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Why Nirvana is the best place to run your AI agents
Nirvana is the best place to run your AI agents. Faster storage, a smaller bill, and more billable work out of the same agents.
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Idempotent compute pays off when the storage keeps up (Agents need fast disks)
Quirq benchmarked Nirvana, Google Kubernetes Engine and E2B agent sandboxes. Nirvana recovered all 5,501 checkpoints and released compute in 1.46 s, against 9.57 s on GKE. E2B recovered none.
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GPU Starvation Is a Data-Path Problem, Not Just a Chip Problem
Nirvana's layer is high-performance block storage. ABS ships 20,000 baseline IOPS against AWS gp3's 3,000 default, bursting to 600,000, and in our own benchmarks runs 10.5x faster than gp3 on cold-read analytical queries.
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The Ultimate AI Agent Sandboxes Comparison 2026
Compare 13 AI agent sandbox providers on persistence, pause/resume behavior, isolation and what survives between sessions. Updated October 2026.
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Managed Services for ClickHouse® Compared
Compare the operating models behind a managed service for ClickHouse®, then evaluate query latency, ingestion, recovery and the complete deployment bill.
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Object, File, and Block Storage: What's the Difference
Object, File, and Block Storage: What's the Difference