Greg Schulz
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What’s the Barrier to AWS Glacier Adoption?
In case you missed it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced their cloud services (Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2) along with storage offerings. These include Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3). Enhancements include new functionality along with availability or reliability in the wake of recent events (outages ...
If March 31st is Backup Day, don’t be Fooled with Restore on April 1st
With March 31st as world backup day, hopefully some will keep recovery and restoration in mind to not be fooled on April 1st. When it comes to protecting data, it may not be a headline news disaster such as earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane or act of man, rather something as simply accidentally overwriting a file, ...
Is 14.4TBytes of Data Storage for $52,503 a Good Deal? It Depends!
A news story about the school board in Marshall Missouri approving data storage plans in addition to getting good news on health insurance rates just came into my in box. I do not live in or anywhere near Marshall Missouri as I live about 420 miles north in the Stillwater Minnesota area. What caught my ...
Why SSD Based Arrays and Storage Appliances can be a Good Idea (Part II)
This is the second of a two part post about why storage arrays and appliances with SSD drives can be a good idea, here is link to the first post. So again, why would putting drive form factor SSDs be a bad idea for existing storage systems, arrays and appliances? Benefits of SSD drive in ...
Why SSD Based Arrays and Storage Appliances can be a Good Idea (Part I)
Robin Harris (aka @storagemojo) recently in a blog post asks a question and thinks solid state devices (SSDs) using SAS or SATA interface in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) form factors are a bad idea in storage arrays (e.g. storage systems or appliances). My opinion is that as with many things about storing, processing or ...
Researchers and Marketers Don’t Agree on Future of Nand Flash SSD
Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the future only has room for SSD with the current flavor de jour being nand flash (both Single Level Cell aka SLC ...
AWS (Amazon) Storage Gateway, First, Second and Third Impressions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the beta of their new storage gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in your data center site. With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, ...
The Blame Game: Does Cloud Storage Result in Data Loss?
I recently came across a piece by Carl Brooks over at IT Tech News Daily that caught my eye, title was Cloud Storage Often Results in Data Loss. The piece has an effective title (good for search engine: SEO optimization) as it stood out from many others I saw on that particular day. What caught ...
Convergence: People, Processes, Polices and Products
Converged and dynamic infrastructures, cloud and virtual environments are popular themes and industry trends with different levels of adoption and deployment occurring. Although are you focusing on products, or the other Ps, that is people, processes and polices (or more here). The reason I bring this up is quite often I hear discussions that are ...
E-Mail Optimization and Archiving Strategies
Email is a popular tool for messaging, calendaring, and managing contacts along with attachments in most organizations. Given the popularity of email and diverse ways that it is used for managing various forms of unstructured data attachments including photos, video, audio, spreadsheets, presentations and other document objects, there are corresponding back end challenges. Those back ...