During our recent meetings, there were a fair number of questions and discussions about the economics of public cloud storage providers, such as Amazon's S3 service.
This YCombinator discussion has lots of good information about pricing, usage and experiences of some of S3's supporters and detractors. It's well worth reading.
Interestingly, thanks to a new S3 user space file-system FUSE module, Bycast has pretty much everything we need to provide a S3 tier of storage to our StorageGRID customers. Of course, such a capability would need to be productized, which would allow an administrator to have a place to configure the tier and securely enter and store their S3 credentials through our administrative interface, but thanks to the filesystem virtualizing the S3 API, all the hard work is already done.
About the Author
- David Slik
- My name is David Slik, and I work for NetApp, Inc as the Technical Director, Object Storage. My official work blog is Objects in Context.
Into the Infrastructure (this blog) is my personal blog, which meanders across a wide range of topics from the past, present and future, with a focus on hardware, software and emerging trends in human-machine interactions.
I hope you find my postings interesting and thought-provoking, and please feel welcome to comment and discuss.
As this is my personal blog, please note that any opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.
1 comment:
Do you feel S3 has the reliability and availability for your customers today? I love the concept, but I've so far been scared off by horror stories of downtime. Also, what about security concerns?
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