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Amazon Outage: Why Cloud Storage Requires Decentralization 18 May 2011 | 05:47 am
Amazon’s recent outage (details here) points to why having a centralized storage model won’t cut it in the long-term vision of the cloud. Although Amazon customers realize an economy of scale as promi...
Iron Mountain shutters – data security needed for public cloud adoption 20 Apr 2011 | 02:26 am
I like many was as surprised by Gartner’s note regarding Iron Mountain’s decision to close its cloud storage service. It reminded me of recent conversations with Terri McClure of ESG where I I ment...
SNW – Cloud Storage has Arrived 12 Apr 2011 | 06:06 am
SNW Spring 2011 – Cloud Standards Have Arrived This is my fifth year to attend Storage Networking World (SNW), and each year I continue to expect new and interesting developments in storage; once aga...
Epsilon catastrophe points to need for better data protection 7 Apr 2011 | 04:51 am
Last week what is thought to be one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. History occurred when a hacker goto into online marketer Epsilon’s system that houses customer emails for a wide range of compa...
Considering Storage as a Service 24 Mar 2011 | 05:30 am
I recently wrote an article for Computer Technology Review on the topic of Storage as a Service, and in particular, how one should weigh the cost and scaling benefits against security. The conclusion...
Dispersed storage brings favorite TV moments back to life 15 Mar 2011 | 06:26 am
We recently announced our two year anniversary with the Museum of Broadcast Communication, and while this marks a great record of achievement using dispersed storage – over 4.5 million visitors to MBC...
File and Storage Technology conference 11 Mar 2011 | 02:00 am
I attended the 9th annual File and Storage Technology conference in San Jose. The conference is sponsored by Usenix and is meant to bring together storage researchers and practitioners to discuss new...
HIMSS is going mobile! 9 Mar 2011 | 12:10 pm
I had the good fortune of attending my first HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society) conference a little over a week ago and my first impression was WOW! The show boasted 31,000...
Hypothesis at the ExecEvent: Dispersal Technology can be used to Create Fully Distributed Multi-Writer File Systems 2 Feb 2011 | 07:30 am
At the ExecEvent storage conference in Palo Alto last week, I was asked to give a presentation to storage industry analysts. The Cleversafe team helped create a presentation for the ExecEvent on the ...
Storage Visions 2011 – Do we head to the Cloud as Data grows out of control? 8 Jan 2011 | 04:00 am
I just got back from Storage Visions and the overarching theme of the conference was “explosive data growth”. There were many presentations that attempted to forecast the data revolution—even to go s...
