Results tagged "S3"
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Microsoft Buys Cloud Gateway Provider StorSimple
October 18, 2012 06:12 PM
Microsoft’s acquisition validates the market for premises-based storage that also links to the cloud, and inaugurates the software giant as a provider of IT hardware.Panzura Cloud Storage Gateway Refresh Delivers More Control
May 11, 2012 09:00 AM
Panzura Global Cloud Storage System OS upgrade delivers more control, supports extended file system ACL, 50% more capacity and 10x better performance.Do Iron Mountain And Cirtas Exits Mean The Cloud Is Falling?
April 19, 2011 07:00 AM
Last week, market research firm Gartner let it slip that Iron Mountain was shuttering its cloud storage service, and reliable sources are telling me that cloud storage gateway startup Cirtas has let its marketing and sales staffs go so the company can concentrate on improving the product. Is this a trend? Is the cloud falling? Will we be left choosing all our IT products from the five families ... oops ... remaining suppliers: IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle and Cisco?Can Cloud Snapshots Replace Backup?
February 24, 2011 09:00 AM
I'm satisfied that snapshots and replication in conventional storage systems can serve the same function as more traditional backup schemes. While snapshots make satisfying the most common restore requests easy the limitations of most storage system's snapshot mechanism leave most organizations using snapshots as a supplement to, not a replacement for, backup copies. Does the cloud change the snapshot as backup calculus? Some cloud storage vendors say it does.Is D2D2C The Next Big Thing In Backup?
February 02, 2010 09:30 AM
Today CommVault announced that their Simpana integrated backup and archiving software can now use public cloud providers in addition to local disk and tape as a data store. I hope that CommVault is, as they were with deduplication, leading a new wave of disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C)backup and archive solutions. While I firmly believe that there's a lot of life left in tape, especially for long retention archives with relatively low access rates, 25 years of consulting to organizations has taught me that tape drives, like backhoes and other heavy equipment, should be left to trained professionals. Small and even mid-size organizations rarely handle tape properly, leaving them exposed to data loss.Sometimes Atoms Are Faster Than Bits
January 14, 2010 11:33 PM
Even though it seems a bit old fashioned sending data from one place to another on physical media, like a USB hard drive or tape cart, can be a lot faster than your wide area network. To point this out, one of my early mentors used to say "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes." Announcements last week from Compellent and Amazon point this out as each adds the option of using USB hard drives to load data at a remote location.Amazon EC2 Entices Innovative Uses With Persistent Storage
August 21, 2008 04:30 PM
Users can store up to 1 TB of data in a single instance of EBS and can scale to as many EBS instances as they need.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
