Need terabytes of cloud storage? No problem…
March 14, 2013
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Sue Poremba.
The term “big data” may be a bit of a misnomer. For some companies, big data is actually huge data. Even small companies now find themselves immersed in massive amounts of data of all sorts, which leads to the problem of storing all of it.
Enter the big data cloud storage solutions, which allow companies to store and access media by the terabyte. Storage by the terabyte may have seemed unfathomable just a few years ago, but according to John Griffith of SolidFire, by today’s standards, terabytes of block storage really isn’t all that much. “Many service providers look at opportunity in hundreds or thousands of terabytes. Between storage hungry database applications and other mission critical systems, terabytes of data can be consumed rather quickly,” Griffith said…
However, Griffith quickly pointed out that block storage is not a one size fits all in terms of performance. Some applications may require high performance, while others may be less sensitive. “Cloud block storage allows you to allocate the quantity of storage required by the application with the performance characteristics needed for a positive user experience. By architecting storage around Quality of Service and leveraging data de-duplication and compression techniques, scale can be used as an advantage,” he said…
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