Archive for the ‘Cloud’ Category:
But Wait, There’s Less (Durability)!
Amazon recently announced a new tier of storage available within their web services cloud infrastructure. Amazon’s current storage solution, S3, is truly the gold standard for durable cloud based storage that provides 99.999999999% durability (which if my math is right, means that for every 100 Billion objects stored in S3, Amazon “may” lose a single object every year). Amazon is listening to their customers, and now provides a lower cost (33% cheaper) S3 storage solution called Reduced Redundancy Solution (RRS).
Moved into the Clouds
I had started this blog initially as a way to discuss storage and virtualization solutions while working as a technology consultant. But recently a new opportunity presented itself, and I’ve now made the transition out of consulting, and back to the start-up world. This most recent adventure is with a company called Sonian which provides a cloud based data archiving and eDiscovery solution. What is so wonderful about this new venture is we leverage the Amazon Web Services cloud providing us the ability to consume storage and computing by the granule. We don’t need to make huge capital outlays in data centers, storage, servers, etc… And since we don’t need to buy and maintain all this hardware (which will eventually be refreshed in 3-5 years), we can keep the costs low and pass on those savings to our customers.