Comments on: Huawei finds favor at CERN: researchers sign up for more UDS cloud storage http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/huawei-finds-favor-at-cern-researchers-sign-up-for-more-uds-cloud-storage/ Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: andor http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/huawei-finds-favor-at-cern-researchers-sign-up-for-more-uds-cloud-storage/#comment-1313946 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:17:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=606529#comment-1313946 I have to make a point here for a very usual mistake people makes. You say:

“… and claims eleven-nines (99.999999999 percent) reliability, so users theoretically don’t need to back up data stored in a UDS-toting cloud.”

RAID (or similar solutions) is not backup. Let me explain this. So, you have a superdistributed, megareliant, ultragood filesystem that gives you 100% reliability because you can go through dozens of failed servers and hundreds of servers, but… if by a mistake someone goes inside the filesystem and delete all the files… don’t you need a backup for getting them back?

Also, even with all that numbers, if you are storing exabites of thata… you should take care of it ;)

]]> By: Marvl http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/huawei-finds-favor-at-cern-researchers-sign-up-for-more-uds-cloud-storage/#comment-1307901 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:15:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=606529#comment-1307901 Good news! Good technical idea!

]]> By: Petri Pekkarinen http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/huawei-finds-favor-at-cern-researchers-sign-up-for-more-uds-cloud-storage/#comment-1306918 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:26:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=606529#comment-1306918 Nice article, thought I don’t really appreciate the heading – after all, it’s the World’s most innovative massive scale storage…

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