Amazon Web Services recently introduced a new class of S3 Object storage called S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access. This extends the options for S3 to four levels of availability and associated cost. What is the point of introducing another option and what could it be used for? S3 Options Until now there were three S3 classes. … Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. If someone asked me what business Riverbed was in, I’d have said WAN acceleration. In past lives, I’ve… Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. There’s a very interesting theme to the presenters at CFD3 and that highlights one of the challenges of… Read more »
Cloudian Inc, a vendor of object storage solutions has recently announced the acquisition of Infinity Storage, a Milan-based developer of file systems and file storage technology. In December 2017, Cloudian announced the availability of HyperFile, a NAS controller addition to HyperStore, which we now know was based on Infinity Storage IP. Clearly, Cloudian saw a… Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. When processes get too complex and time-consuming, there’s a temptation to stick in another layer of abstraction and… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud. You can find a link to all of the published articles as they become available here. (link). Probably the most elegant solution to data mobility is to seemingly make data appear in many places at the same time. Imagine… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud. You can find a link to all of the published articles as they become available here. (link). Caching is not a new technology. In fact, it’s been used as a technique to cost-effectively accelerate I/O performance since computers were… Read more »
Over the past 12-18 months, I’ve done a lot of work looking at options for getting existing data into the public cloud. You may have noticed that I’ve talked a lot about the subject over this period. There are links at the end of this post to that content. However, I thought it might be… Read more »
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