Tag: storage

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Dan Ginn; Whether you’re a professional photographer or a keen hobbyist, having the best online photo storage for your images is a must. Beyond backing up your photos, cloud storage is an effective method for easily sharing images with others. Today, many cloud services offer excellent features for storing images, from lightning-fast sync speeds to easy file management.  Key Takeaways: pCloud is the best storage option for professional photographers.MEGA comes with fantastic features for security and privacy, plus 20GB free storage.Google Photos is great for the everyday smartphone user, with 15GB free space. We’ve reviewed many cloud ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Storage Gateway now makes it easier and faster for you to search, view, and manage your virtual tapes stored in AWS using Tape Gateway. From the Tapes page in the Storage Gateway management console, you can now quickly search for tapes using common filters such as tape barcode and status. You simply select the desired filter from the drop-down menu and quickly narrow down your search to the relevant set of tapes, saving you time and management overhead. For example, to delete archived tapes exceeding your defined retention period, you can use the Archived filter, select the desired ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In Part I of this series, we introduced you to strategies to optimize the compute layer of your AWS architecture for sustainability. We provided you with success criteria, metrics, and architectural patterns to help you improve resource and energy efficiency of your AWS workloads. This blog post focuses on the storage layer of your AWS infrastructure and provides recommendations that you can use to store your data sustainably. Optimizing the storage layer of your AWS infrastructure Managing your data lifecycle and using different storage tiers are key components to optimizing storage for sustainability. When you consider different storage mechanisms, ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . KoçSistem, the leading IT company in Turkey, has been providing technological solutions to the business world for over 75 years. Today it offers consulting, system integration, and software products and services covering the Internet of Things (IoT), big data and advanced analytics, security, enterprise cloud, enterprise mobility, and more. Considered to be Turkey's most valuable IT brand, KoçSistem is helping to drive the country's digital transformation efforts, drawing on its experience of working in 80 national and international business partnerships, with a workforce of around 1,600 employees spanning 81 cities. KoçSistemAn Appetite for Quality and InnovationKoçSistem ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Yves Trudeau; Here’s a second post focusing on the performance of MySQL on ZFS in cloud environments. In the first post, MySQL/ZFS Performance Update, we compared the performances of ZFS and ext4. This time we’ll look at the benefits of using ephemeral storage devices. These devices, called ephemeral in AWS, local in Google cloud, and temporary in Azure, are provided directly by the virtualization host. They are not network-attached and are not IO throttled, at least compared to regular storage. Not only can they handle a high number of IOPs, but their IO latency is also ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Amazon EC2 D3 instances provide up to 48 TB of local HDD storage and are powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) Processors with a sustained all core turbo frequency of up to 3.1 GHz. D3 instances provide up to 2.5x higher networking speed, and 45% higher disk throughput compared to D2 instances. These instances are an ideal fit for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Aung Oo. As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Azure Disk Storage provides maximum resiliency for all workloads with an industry-leading zero percent annual failure rate and single-instance service-level agreements (SLA) for all disk types, including a best-in-class single-instance SLA of 99.9 percent availability for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Premium SSD or Azure Ultra Disk Storage. Today, we continue our investments to further improve the reliability of our infrastructure with the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; Advantages of Cloud Services Here are some of the biggest advantages of using cloud storage. 1. Backup Your Data to the Cloud If you’ve ever had a hard drive die on you, you’re familiar with the pandemonium it can cause, especially if you’re an at-home worker. Not only do you have to get it replaced, but your data might be gone for good.  Some data might be salvageable via a very pricey restoration service, although those aren’t always capable of recovering your data, and usually at least some of it will be gone for good ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Separation of storage and compute is an important capability of most cloud native databases. Being able to scale compute independently from storage allows for cost savings as well as improved performance and elasticity. For example, operational databases such as Amazon Aurora and Azure Hyperscale have introduced separate log and storage services that do the work of making the log durable as well as some log maintenance work that would typically be done by the database engine itself. The result is lower network and disk utilization to provide high availability and durability of data. Cloud data ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class automates storage cost savings for a wider range of workloads by eliminating the minimum storage duration, and removing the low per-object monitoring and automation charges for objects smaller than 128 KB. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the only cloud storage class that delivers automatic storage cost savings when data access patterns change, without performance impact or operational overhead. Previously, S3 Intelligent-Tiering was optimized for long-lived objects stored for a minimum of 30 days and objects larger than 128 KB. With these changes, S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the ideal storage class for data with unknown, changing, ... Read More