An organization may have both on-premises and cloud-based storages running on different platforms while hosting a copy of each other’s data, then the organization has to implement a software mechanism to keep data on both storages in sync. Organizations using Amazon’s AWS can enhance the integration of their on-premises storage appliances with the respective AWS storage. The new AWS...
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As mid 2011, over 449 billion objects are residing at Amazon’s S3 cloud storage and these objects generate about 290K requests per second at peak times. Last April it was about 250, an increase of about quarter of a trillion in less than four months. Read more here. To put you into perspective, Amazon compares the number of Objects...
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On March 9, 2011 – NetApp the company that creates storage and data management solutions announced that it is acquiring Engenio External Storage Systems Business of LSI Corporation for $480 million. LSI is a major provider of custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world’s best known...
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Is there a storage limit for Amazon S3? The recent storage statistics released by Amazon show steady growths over the last four years. The number of Objects stored in S3 has reached quarter of a trillion! While the peak request rate for S3 is over 200, 000 requests per second. This is what makes...
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There is no one solution that fits all (unlike what respective vendors would like you to believe). Factors that could influence your decision are you organisation’s size, geographic distribution, in-house or engaged technical expertise and business operational patterns.
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On Friday 10 December, Amazon announced an enhancement in their S3 storage infrastructure – an increase in the maximum size of an object from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes. Users can now easily store and reference high resolution videos, large backup files, scientific instrument data or other large datasets as single objects.
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