Cloud Computing: Velostrata decouples storage and compute by streaming workloads

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Gary Hilson.

Moving data and workloads to the cloud can be a hefty task for enterprises and some still prefer to keep everything on-premise, so a startup has come up with a solution that decouples storage from compute. “The common assumption was to provide adequate performance, you needed to couple storage and compute,” said Issy Ben-Shaul, founder and CEO of Velostrata.

“We decided to challenge that premise.” The company enables enterprises to stream production workloads from on-premise storage into the cloud computing. The decoupling is done without sacrificing performance, he said. Ben-Shaul said most customers are looking to make use of the cloud, but there are still some key barriers. Enterprises are less likely to move workloads into the cloud if they have particularly large data sets in the terabyte range, he said…

“It takes time to move large workloads.” It also costs money to store data on the cloud as long as the data is there, whereas compute can be turned off. In addition, it may be hard for enterprises to get approval to move storage to the cloud due to compliance and security concerns. They also don’t want to move workloads to clouds only to have them stuck with a particular provider…

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