Comments on: Amazon fuses your storage system with its cloud

By: Artem Livshits

Artem Livshits — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:28:49 +0000

I think by far, the cloud storage has been the most useful and the most used cloud service and Amazon just made yet another step to make it easier to use. The pricing and the form factor seems to be targeting enterprises, though. For smaller businesses and individual use, things like Bitcasa and OblakSoft ClouSE seem to be more affordable.

By: quickgamer88

quickgamer88 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:04:30 +0000

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By: Philip Arnason

Philip Arnason — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:32:26 +0000

I’m surprised Nasuni didn’t make the list of competitors. They have the most enterprise worthy appliance that does the same. I’m surprised at the limits v1 of this product imposes. They have a 1TB limit of each volume. Even my smallest unstructured datasets are bigger than 1TB, but perhaps they are going after structured data.

By: Mosaic Technology

Mosaic Technology — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:03:17 +0000

AWS seems to be in the target for SMB’s who are looking for help with their data. Big data could benefit greatly from this when the on-premise caching is enabled which allows the frequently accessed data to be available at more of a convenience. It will be interesting too see how organizations decide to use this.

Sarah
Mosaic Technology
http://www.mosaictec.com

By: Ursheet Parikh

Ursheet Parikh — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:12:30 +0000

It is very interesting to see what Amazon did for their first product that runs on-premise in the enterprise. It highlights that the key battle and the first step in enterprise cloud computing is about access to the enterprise data. The mass of computing is in the data.. If you have the data, then it pulls the applications and compute to the cloud.

From an enterprise customers perspective, there is a business decision to be made on whether they want to use a cloud on-ramp that locks them into a specific cloud or have a solution that can work across the range of enterprise focused cloud services – Amazon, Azure, AT&T and other Atmos based clouds, Rackspace, Google, HP and other Openstack based clouds, IBM/Nirvanix etc.

Directionally, we see this as the first salvo from Amazon in terms of getting serious about enterprise storage. The best indicator of that is the architectural approach that Amazon has taken with their Storage Gateway. The suggested deployment for Amazon Storage Gateway is that it be deployed as a gateway to both – the customer’s existing SAN storage and the Amazon cloud.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:37:04 +0000

I know they used to buy quite a few servers from SGI (nee Rackable), but I’m not sure if that’s still the case.

By: Dave Hewit

Dave Hewit — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:32:41 +0000

Anyone know who supplies the hardware for AWS? Do they make their servers/storage/networking gear in house or buy from mainstream vendors? Just wondering how this will effect the storage businesses of NTAP, EMC and IBM.