Cloud Computing: Solving the Storage Problem

Grazed from CloudComputingExpo. Author: Stefan Bernbo.

Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an enterprise IT setting by reimagining positions across several dimensions. The unprecedented explosion of Big Data and cloud services is driving the development of new storage architectures to store the information produced by this web-scale trend.

It is becoming increasingly clear that even a linear growth trajectory for storage is insufficient to deliver the quantity of storage needed for data produced by the Internet of Things. Current architectures have bottlenecks that, while merely inconvenient for legacy data, are simply unacceptable for the scale of storage needed today…

In order to accommodate this unparalleled growth, enterprises are deploying web-scale architectures that enable virtualization, compute and storage functionality on a tremendous scale…

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