Silver Peak Cuts Amazon Cloud Data Movement Costs

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Charles Babcock.

By compressing data and eliminating duplicate copies, an Amazon Web Services customer can decrease by as much as 50% the cost of moving data out of the cloud, say spokesmen for Silver Peak Systems, which on Thursday started offering a virtual appliance to do just that.

It can be critical for some public cloud users to reduce the amount of data exported from the cloud. Several vendors, including Amazon, charge nothing for the bandwidth to upload data. But they charge by the GB when it comes to downloading. AWS, for example, charges $0.12 per GB after the first free GB to move data out of S3 to a destination on the Internet, a charge that can quickly mount up. Ten terabytes would lead to a charge of $1,200, and truly big data would rack up multiples of that figure. That gives many cloud users second thoughts as they contemplate the cost of moving data out of the cloud, a possibly intended consequence of that pricing approach…


Silver Peak has launched its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture as an Amazon Machine Image appliance available in the Amazon Marketplace, ready to be activated in the cloud for a given workload. The user of such a virtual appliance must already be a Silver Peak licensee and run Silver Peak on premises as well as in Amazon EC2, said Jeff Aaron, Silver Peak VP of marketing, in an interview Thursday as the Santa Clara, Calif., firm made its announcement. In other words, it’s a case of "bring your own license" to the public cloud environment…

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