Tag: storage

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PG Phriday: Steady Storage StampedeWhen we are sizing our database storage, we don’t always take performance metrics such as operations per second into consideration. A direct consequence of this may be that we won’t attain the performance we’re seeking. Yet there’s a more insidious side-effect here that’s buried deep in the bowels of the operating system itself: memory flushing. In an age where SSD and NVMe devices are readily available from all cloud providers and reasonably priced for bare metal servers, it’s easy to forget the effects of write caching. These devices can easily absorb tens of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; If you’re looking for a robust but simple cloud storage service to help you organize and store personal files, there are a lot of providers that would be overkill, with advanced features and complicated pricing structures. This list of the best cloud storage for personal use looks past all that to help you find something dependable and easy to use that won’t cost an arm and a leg. Key Takeaways: Sync.com, pCloud and Icedrive are the top three cloud storage providers for personal use as they offer affordable plans and accessible software without compromising on ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; Nonprofits, NGOs and charities often face the same challenges that for-profit businesses have to deal with, and data management is no exception. Luckily, you can keep those important files safe and secure without the costs getting too high by reading this guide to the best backup for nonprofits. Key Takeaways: IDrive and SpiderOak both offer big discounts for nonprofitsCrashplan and CloudBerry Backup are great tools for managing a larger network of devicesBackblaze is the perfect tool for smaller organizations that don’t have an expert on hand Of course, before continuing, you should make sure that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Amplify Studio now offers a visual interface for setting up and managing file storage resources, making it easy to store and serve user-generated content (e.g. photos and videos) from web or mobile apps. With Amplify Studio, you can easily create an Amazon S3 bucket, configure file access levels, integrate storage client libraries into your web or mobile app, and manage files in Studio’s drag and drop file explorer. Amplify Studio is visual tool for developers to easily add the most important capabilities needed to build an app (e.g. UI components, database tables, GraphQL APIs, authentication, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Priya Shan. At Microsoft Ignite in November 2021, we announced the memory-optimized Ev5 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C processor. The Ev5 VMs are designed for memory-intensive business-critical applications, relational database servers, and in-memory data analytics workloads. Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Ebsv5 VM series, a new addition to the Ev5 Azure VM family. The Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VMs offer up to 120,000 IOPS and 4,000MBps of remote disk storage throughput. They also include up to 512 GiB of RAM and local SSD storage ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Storage Gateway adds support for VMware ESXi 7.0 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2022 and 2019 hypervisors, enabling you to deploy your gateway virtual machines on the latest versions of these hypervisors.   AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in the cloud. This capability is available starting today in all AWS Regions ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. AWS Lambda functions have always had ephemeral storage available at /tmp in the file system. This was set at 512 MB for every function, regardless of runtime or memory configuration. With this new feature, you can now configure ephemeral storage for up to 10 GB per function instance. You can set this in the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK, AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), AWS Lambda API, and AWS CloudFormation. This blog post explains how this works and how to use this new ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Lambda customers can now configure up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for their Lambda functions, a 20x increase compared to the previous limit of 512 MB. This helps workloads such as financial analysis, machine learning inference, and media processing applications perform data intensive operations at scale. For data intensive applications such as machine learning inference, financial computations, and media processing, customers often need to read and write large amounts of data to ephemeral storage. The Lambda execution environment provides an ephemeral file system for customers’ code to access via /tmp space, which is preserved for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting now, AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports (CURs) provide more granular and detailed billing of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) charges. Additional detail is reported for Amazon RDS Backups and General Purpose, Provisioned IOPS, and Magnetic Storage volumes that are provisioned in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server database instances. Your bill will contain a detailed break down of costs by database engine for the above Amazon RDS resources and features ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; Network attached storage (NAS) is great if you have lots of data to store and want it to be accessible without a physical connection. However, NAS is just as vulnerable to physical damage as an external hard drive, and a fire or a flood will destroy all your data. To prevent this, you should use one of the five best NAS cloud backup services to keep a copy in remote storage. Key Takeaways: IDrive is a great backup for your NAS if you keep it connected to a desktop.CloudBerry Backup is a backup manager that ... Read More