Tag: storage

Feed: Recent Announcements. The storage space allocated to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster will now dynamically decrease when you delete data from the cluster. Amazon DocumentDB is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Previously, when Amazon DocumentDB data was removed, such as by dropping a collection, the overall allocated space remained the same. The free space was reused automatically when data volume increased in the future. Now, with dynamic resizing, the allocated storage space automatically increases up to a maximum size of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Gokhul Srinivasan. By Gokhul Srinivasan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, ISV Startups – AWSBy Aron Eidelman, Contributing Author – AWSBy Ed Casmer, CTO – Cloud Storage Security Cloud Storage Security Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a highly scalable object storage service that allows organizations to store and process data. Because of its flexibility and ease of use, it has become the “center pin” of many applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A wide range of solutions ingest data, store it in Amazon S3 buckets, and then share it with downstream users ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Stefan Dittforth. King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH) and Bahrain Oncology Center is a 600-bed-hospital in Bahrain. Over the years, KHUH faced constraints with exponential growth of their on-premise storage needs, particularly with the medical images stored by their picture archiving and communication system (PACS). After assessing their long-term storage needs, KHUH turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a cost- and time-effective long-term storage solution without making changes to their existing PACS. Read on to learn how KHUH developed and iterated on a long-term medical image data storage architecture that helped them reduce ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Gokhul Srinivasan. By Gokhul Srinivasan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, ISV Startups – AWSBy Aron Eidelman, Contributing Author – AWSBy Ed Casmer, CTO – Cloud Storage Security Cloud Storage Security Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a highly scalable object storage service that allows organizations to store and process data. Because of its flexibility and ease of use, it has become the “center pin” of many applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A wide range of solutions ingest data, store it in Amazon S3 buckets, and then share it with downstream users ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Finding the cloud storage service that best fits your needs isn’t an easy task, and it gets harder every year as more providers join the fray. Icedrive is fresh on the scene, which means we have another contender for our favorite cloud storage. The already-established pCloud is quite high on our list, so let’s take a look at how they compare in this Icedrive vs pCloud battle. If neither Icedrive nor pCloud seem up your alley, you can check out our full list of the best cloud storage options, where you’re sure to find a ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Keyspaces helps you run Cassandra workloads more easily by using a fully managed and serverless database service. With Amazon Keyspaces, you don’t need to provision storage upfront and you pay for only the storage that you use. Now, you can use the BillableTableSizeInBytes CloudWatch metric to monitor and track your table storage costs over time. The BillableTableSizeInBytes metric provides the billable storage size of a table by summing up the encoded size of all the rows in the table ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Taylor Krusen. By Taylor Krusen, Developer Relations Engineer – Dropbox By Ben Fitzpatrick, Director, Strategic Business Development – DropboxBy Darren Rohde, Partner Account Manager – DropboxBy Kenny Rajan, Sr. Solutions Architect, and Jagdeep Sahni, Sr. Partner Development Manager – AWS Dropbox Businesses run on agreements. In the era of always-on business, paper contracts remain common, although they are time-intensive and can dramatically affect the efficiency of other workflows—sometimes taking weeks to get a paper or scanned document signed and returned. Other documents are never signed at all; likely buried in the mountain of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Andrew Chen. This blog has been co-authored by Ram Kakani, Principal Program Manager, Azure Dedicated If you’ve been waiting for the right time to optimize your storage-intensive VMware applications in the cloud, I have great news for you: Azure NetApp Files for Network File System (NFS) datastores in Azure VMware Solution is now available in preview. With Azure VMware Solution you can now scale storage independently from compute using Azure NetApp Files datastores, enabling you to run VMware-based storage-intensive workloads like SQL Server, general-purpose file servers, and others in Azure. Gain the flexibility and scalability of running your ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; If you’re not already paying for cloud storage, you’re probably not going to be keen to pay for a subscription without trying it. Thankfully, there are a lot of free online storage providers that will allow you to store your data online, share photos and videos, or listen to your favorite music. Here’s our list of some of the best free cloud storage plans on the market today. Key Takeaways: pCloud, Sync.com and Icedrive are the best free cloud storage providers due to their combination of features, ease of use, security and privacy.MEGA offers more ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; IDrive and Backblaze are both online backup services. However, while IDrive offers a wide array of features and storage space that can be used for multiple devices, Backblaze users get unlimited storage for a single computer that’s incredibly easy to use. This IDrive vs Backblaze comparison will find out which one is better overall. Key Takeaways: Backblaze is a great value with its unlimited storage and is also easy to use.IDrive has plenty of features and a solid backup process.Security and privacy is where Backblaze falls behind and IDrive excels. Regardless of how these services ... Read More