by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, Object storage |
An architect and regular StorageMojo reader faces a perplexing problem: should he move his organization’s archive from tape to object storage? The first question is, of course, is it technically feasible? The economics come next. Here’s his problem...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn’t care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 25, 2014 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? Long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for 1¢/GB while maintaining several copies across geographies. Pretty amazing. Less amazing now that disk prices are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 18, 2013 | Backup, Enterprise, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
For reasons that elude me I accepted Asigra’s invitation to attend their Toronto Partner Summit last week. I’m glad I did. After all, I hate backup. Not because I like losing data, but because it reminds me how flaky digital storage is. Asigra is the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise |
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 18, 2013 | Backup, Future Tech, Information Management |
No CES for me this year, but did attend Storage Visions 2013. Some cool stuff there. Panasonic’s Blu-ray RAID archive robot Panasonic has a Blu-ray-based storage system that looks interesting. Imagine 12 Blu-ray discs in the striped RAID configuration. The RAID...
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