by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage |
Iron Mountain plans to either sell or shutter its digital archiving, eDiscovery and online backup and recovery solutions. Why? Investors driving management IM has been under pressure from a couple of funds that invested in the company and want board representation....
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 29, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
Amazon’s outage was caused by a failure of the underlying storage – the Elastic Block Storage. Here’s what they learned. EBS The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a distributed and replicated storage optimized for consistent and low latency I/O from EC2...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Megastore handles over 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on almost 8 PB of primary data across many global data centers. In a paper by Jason Baker, Chris Bond, James C. Corbett, JJ Furman, Andrey Khorlin, James Larson, Jean-Michel Léon, Yawei Li, Alexander...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 3, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Talked to a startup the other day that looks interesting – Zettar. It wasn’t the name that caught my attention. Object storage is big in clouds. But objects aren’t compatible with standard apps: Powerpoint expects files, not objects. Cloudstores like...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 18, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year’s Cloud Quadrant and this year’s Why private clouds are part of the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 4, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
The friendly folks at Scality have put up $100,000 to encourage open source development of useful cloud storage bits. It’s open to anyone, not just grad students. Yup, it’s corporate self-interest at work – Scality sells object-based cloud storage...
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