Comments on: Tweaking Storage for The Cloud

By: Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage? - GigaOM

Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage? - GigaOM — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:00:32 +0000

[...] for many applications, including media delivery and most application delivery, tweaking storage for the cloud means adding faster cache memory or optimizing the storage infrastructure by geographic location. [...]

By: GSN

GSN — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:48:53 +0000

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By: LaunchSquad : Blogs : What’s New

LaunchSquad : Blogs : What’s New — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:56:12 +0000

[...] influential technology trades and blogs as Byte & Switch, GigaOm, TechWorld, and InfoStor jumped on the news, giving Ocarina plenty of ink and top billing at the [...]

By: - Storwize Gets $19M

- Storwize Gets $19M — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:02:21 +0000

[...] one of the many startups tweaking storage for the cloud, netted $19 million in funding yesterday. The round follows a $9 million Series B raised in 2007 [...]

By: Storwize Gets $19M - GigaOM

Storwize Gets $19M - GigaOM — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:39 +0000

[...] Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 10:42 AM PT Comments (0) Storwize, one of the many startups tweaking storage for the cloud, netted $19 million in funding yesterday. The round follows a $9 million Series B raised in 2007 [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:10:24 +0000

a much cheaper solution the NetApp and EMC for enteprise storage are the true Cloud Storage providers, like Nirvanix. they recently announced services for enterprise backup and online archiving, and they claim to be pretty “nimble” while staying cheap.
for those interested (link)

By: Russ Kennedy

Russ Kennedy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:47:00 +0000

Stacey, Today, the client that reassembles the data resides in a device which we sell called an Accesser. In the near future, the client will be imbedded in media players, cameras, cell phones, etc. to save and access dispersed data. The number of servers that can simultaneously fail while maintaining access to the data is user configurable. A typical configuration will have 16 storage servers spread across 8 locations with a minimum of number of slices needed to create the data being 10. That’s a 16 / 10 / 8 Cleversafe configuration. In this scenario, with 2 servers at each location you can simultaneously lose 3 sites or 6 individual servers and still be able to access the data. I’ll have someone from our PR agency schedule a briefing with you.

By: SEO hosting

SEO hosting — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:16:18 +0000

I think your last pont is key. For any of these new ideas to really take off the companies either have to be bought out by one of the big players or they have to license out their knowledge. The cost to develop these ideas is huge and I think the VC folks don’t like spending dollars on actual equipment.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:41:19 +0000

Russ, Cleversafe is interesting. Who needs to have copies of the client in order to reassemble the data? What percentage of the servers can fail and still keep a viable copy of the information? I’d really like to learn more.

By: SolSie

SolSie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:42:35 +0000

IBM is playing in this field with its latest acquisition of XIV:
(link)

By: Russ Kennedy

Russ Kennedy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:46:20 +0000

Since you are identifying new technologies that are tweaking storage for the cloud, you may want to look at what Cleversafe is doing to address the needs of content storage and distribution. Cleversafe’s core technology is build on information dispersal which is a fundamentally better way to store and distribute large digital content objects, not just at tweak. Dispersed Storage takes in data and slices the data into a number of pieces that are transformed (optionally encrypted) and then dispersed across a network of storage servers which can be geographically distributed. Data is rebuilt using intelligence in a light weight client by having access to a predefined subset of the original pieces. The client dynamically determines the fastest and most efficient method for retrieving the slices and recreating the original data which is ideal for content distribution. Cleversafe’s products address both a more efficient way to store and protect digital content for extended periods of time as well as an efficient method of distributing that content to millions of users simultaneously.

By: free press release

free press release — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:58:44 +0000

Anything along these lines from Veritas? They are also a prominent player in data center storage infrastructure. I guess they are now part of Symantec.