Amazon Web Services (AWS) has 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, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access both Rack space and
Amazon S3 along with Commvault Simpana Cloud connector among others). There
are also vendors that have joined cloud access gateways as part of their
storage systems such as TwinStrata among others. Even EMC (and here) has
gotten into the game adding qualified cloud acces... (more)
Can I ask for your support? Please vote for my blog
By Greg Schulz
No Im not running for any elected office in a political or other
organizational capacity, more on the voting stuff in a moment.
Let me start out by saying thank you to all of you who have and continue to
read theses posts from where ever that happens to be from.
I also want to thank all of the sites and venues that pickup my blog feeds to
make it easier for readers to view the content as well as thanks for all of
the great comments and discussions.
Doing some recent end of year clean up and preparation for 2012, I ... (more)
Drew Robb has a good article about what IT industry pundits including
vendors, analysts, and advisors loath including comments from myself.
In the article Drew asks: What do you really love about storage and what are
your pet peeves?
One of my comments and perspectives is that I like Hybrid Hard Disk Drives
(HHDDs) in addition to traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD) along with Solid
State Devices (SSDs). As much as I like HHDDs, I also believe that with any
technology, they are not the best solution for everything, however they can
also be used in many ways than being seen. Here is... (more)
Given that it is Halloween season, time for some fun.
Over the past couple of weeks various product and solution services
announcements have been made that result in various articles, columns, blogs
and commentary in support of them.
Ever wonder which if any of those products could actually be stitched
together to work in a production environment without increasing the overall
cost and complexity that they sometimes promote as their individual value
proposition? Granted, many can and do work quite well when introduced into
heterogeneous or existing environments with good interope... (more)
Technically here in the northern hemisphere it is still summer, so there is
another summer wedding to announce.
The other day Hitachi Data Systems (aka HDS) announced that they finally tied
the knot buying their Network Attached Storage (NAS) partner BlueArc whom
they have been in a OEM premarital arrangement for the last five years or so
(wow, was that a long engagement or what?). HDS being a subsidiary of Hitachi
Ltd. a Japanese company it should be no surprise that they operate in a cool,
calculated conservative manner with products that have over the past several
decades bee... (more)
Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) Group, an IT industry analyst and consultancy firm. Greg has worked with various server operating systems along with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO.
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