News Update – Amazon S3 Objects
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...
View ArticleWhat’s your storage?
The development of online computer storage can be mapped as follows: Floppy Disks: Low storage density / slow storage speed / self-responsibility for data / localized access Hard Disks: High storage...
View ArticleThe Sky is the limit for Amazon S3
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...
View ArticleNetApp Acquiring LSI’s Engenio External Storage Systems
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....
View ArticleAmazon S3 hosting several billion of Software Objects
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...
View ArticleThe Storage Gateway
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...
View ArticleTypes of Virtualization Technologies
We often tend to generalize the term virtualization for all types of virtualization technologies, like when we talk about network virtualization components without understanding the differences in the...
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