When your technology is based on mechanical motion, it’s inevitable that at some point the laws of physics will get in the way. This has been a problem for hard disk drives for some time. Spin speeds never exceeded 15K RPM except in some test drives. As a result, throughput has been limited by this… Read more »
This is the first of a series of posts that will start to dig down into the issues of data protection within public clouds, This post covers some outline thinking. The most apt definition of public cloud is that it is simply somebody else’s computer. You’re renting time and services from a provider, services which… Read more »
Update: I’ve added extra links at the end of this post, covering some background reading/watching from SNIA. According to a recent article on The Register, Diablo Technologies appears to have closed down. Diablo was or is a manufacturer of NVDIMM and DRAM extension technology, including Memory1. As previously reported, many of the original founders and… Read more »
I’m doing a little more structured work with public cloud, so have been going back and cleaning up and standardising the existing accounts I already have. The first thing is to create accounts that are company, not user specific. I like to use distribution groups or mailing lists for setting up accounts. They are more… Read more »
When object stores first started to appear on the market, the aim was to target a very specific niche. Unstructured data growth demanded better ways of storing data than file servers. Object stores offered the ability to scale to billions of objects, without the issues of managing a file system. However, rewriting applications for REST-based… Read more »
Anyone who followed the announcements at AWS re:INVENT last week will have seen a clear theme that covered most of the announcements made at the event. AWS is focused on bringing services to the public cloud that concentrate on machine learning, AI and generating insight from large volumes of data. The AWS team seems to… Read more »
Object storage is a relatively new market segment that has continued to grow steadily and is starting to find more reasons for adoption. For the uninitiated, object stores are used to hold large volumes of unstructured data, where each “object” is essentially a file with no specific format (also called a binary file). Object stores… Read more »
Note: Updated on 18 January 2017 to include OpenEBS. There’s an almost religious divide between those who see containers as entirely stateless objects and others taking a more pragmatic approach that says state and containers is an inevitable thing. In the stateless model, data is assumed to be replicated and protected by many container instances. … Read more »