Posts by jpaulturner

Scality guarantees 100% availability

Re: I know what they want to imply by "100 %"

Responding for Scality - This is achievable. Traditional storage architectures for sure cannot achieve this. However, since scality (and others) are distributed storage systems and automatically rebalance data across the cluster after failure, you automatically avoid failure points. The system can be configured with many protection copies for durability using distributed erasure coding - this means that you can protect at any one time ffrom many disk and server failures. The 3rd element which then makes 100% possible is that you need to be monitoring the system and fixing dead disks/servers which may have gone wrong. This is what HALO then brings to the picture. With a system designed for any failure scenario and continuous monitoring then 100% availability is definitely achieveable.

Learn more about the scality ring architecture here http://storage.scality.com/white-paper-scality-technical-wp.html

Behold this golden era of storage startups. It's coming to an end

There's more than just latency ... the big change will be scale, data management and mobility

I'd agree that the time for innovation in storage technologies which drive latency improvements is a reducing return. Where all the storage innovation is going now is how to manage Petabytes of data, geographic dispersion, hybrid storage management and analytics. The storage innovation focus is moving to what we can do with the data (software led) - not the storage media improvements (hardware led).

The private cloud offers a good use case for object storage

The New Storage Players

Thanks Enrico and you're right that the enterprise storage marketing is changing - flash at the high end transactional side and object/content optimized storage at the capacity side. Object Storage is a great fit for private cloud but it needs more - it needs to be multi-tenanted. People are deploying as a data service where they can run multiple applications against the same storage. This includes features like Quality of Service (to make sure service levels are maintained) and configurable data policies (so you can control which data is encrypted, archived or protection level). It also requires user self service capability while maintaining enterprise IT control. At Cloudian, where I work, we build Cloudian HyperStore S3 native object storage for large enterprise Private Clouds and Service Providers.