Software Defined Cloud Bulk Object Storage News Trends

Cloud, Software Defined, Scale-Out, Object Storage News Trends

Updated 1/21/2018

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Software defined, Bulk, Cloud and Object Storage exist to support expanding and diverse application data demands. There are various types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. There are also solutions for hybrid and private deployment from Cisco, DDN, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Noobaa, OpenStack, Quantum, Rackspace, Scality, Seagate, Spectra, Storpool, Suse, Swift and WD among others.

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis. After all, not everything is the same in cloud, virtual and traditional data centers or information factories from active data to in-active deep digital archiving.

Via InfoStor: Object Storage Is In Your Future
Via FujiFilm IT Summit: Software Defined Data Infrastructures (SDDI) and Hybrid Clouds
Via ChannelPartnersOnline: Selling Software-Defined Storage: Not All File Systems Are the Same
Via ITProPortal: IBM kills off its first cloud storage platform
Via MultiChannel: After ditching cloud business, Verizon inks Virtual Network Services deal with Amazon
Via ITBusinessEdge: Time to Rein in Cloud Storage
Via BusinessInsider: Kodiak Data Brings Enterprise Storage and Database Services to the Cloud Era with StorageCloud
Via SerchCloudStorge: Ctera Networks’ file-sharing services gain intelligent cache
Via StorageIOblog: Who Will Be At Top Of Storage World Next Decade?

The following resources provide additional information about big data, bulk, software defined, cloud and object storage.

Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via CloudComputingAdmin: Cloud Storage Decision Making
Via Wservernews: Cloud storage considerations
Via PRNewsWire: Scality Accelerates Multi-Cloud Adoption with New Open-Source Release
Via EnterpriseStorageForum: Top 10 Tips for Software-Defined Storage Deployment
Via MultiChannel: Verizon Digital Media Services now offers integrated Microsoft Azure Storage
Via BroadCstingCable: Quantum’s New StorNext 6 Delivers Unparalleled Combination of Best-in-Class 4K Performance and Advanced Data Management
Via ShootOnLine: Morro Data Accelerates Media Collaboration With Cache and Sync Appliance
Via TechCrunch: Backblaze drops download pricing for its B2 storage platform by 60%
Via PRNewsWire: FileCloud Online Launches an All-In-One File Share, Sync and Backup SaaS Offering in a Challenge to Dropbox and Box

Via HITInfrastructure: Benefits of Object Storage to Health IT Infrastructure
Via ITBusinessedge: Growing Diversity of Cloud Storage Solutions
Via Telecompaper: Interoute launches storage zones in Switzerland
Via TradeCalls:
Object Storage Market Size, Status and Forecast 2022
Via OpenStack: Creating object storage container causes user to be logged out, OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
Via RethinkResearch: Nokia claims a 40% cut in cloud DVR Capex, using new Skim Storage
Via Cloudwards: A Beginner’s Guide on How Cloud Backup With Microsoft Azure Works
Via ITProPortal: Lack of understanding of data inhibits move to the cloud

Via InfoStor:Cloud Storage Concerns, Considerations and Trends
Via StreetInsider: IBM Announces New Pricing Model for Cloud Storage and NetApp Object Storage Partnership

Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via ComputerWeekly: Storage 101: Object storage vs block vs file
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via Yahoo Finance: SwiftStack Joins Google Cloud Technology Partner Program
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look

Via StorageIOblog: HPE Continues Buying Into Server Storage I/O Data Infrastructures
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via TheStack:Google to launch nine new data centres over three new cloud regions
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via DigitalJournal:Global Business Cloud Storage market 2017 share, Segmentation and Industrial Overview forecasts to 2022
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via NextPlatform:How Microsoft Fell Hard for FPGAs
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via NextPlatform:Google Courts Enterprise For Cloud Platform

Via IBM RedBooks: Cloud Object Storage as a
Service – IBM Cloud Object Storage from Theory to Practice
Via VentureBeat: Microsoft confirms Azure storage issues around the world
Via Microsoft Azure: Azure status history
Via NextPlatform: Windows Server Comes To ARM Chips, But Only For Azure
Via NextPlatform: ARM And AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift From Microsoft
Via ITBusinessEdge: Google Expands Enterprise Cloud Service Footprint
Via ChannelWorld: Google announces three new cloud regions, contract discounts
Via AWS: AWS Service Health Status
Via AWS (S3 Feb 28 2017 Port mortem): Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
Via SearchCloudStorage: Open source object storage startup OpenIO adds hardware

Via InfoStor: Comments on Cloud Storage Pros and Cons
Via CRN: StorageCraft Acquires Exablox
Via TVtechglobal: Signiant CEO: The media industry isnt just one monolithic thing
Via Computerweekly: Using the cloud as a storage tier
Via SearchCloudStorage: OpenIO joins object storage cloud scrum
Via CRN: Dell Partners With Scality On High-Density Object Storage
Via BroadwayWorld: The World’s Smallest Object Storage Solution, ‘Ceph on Olive’, is Released
Via SmartDataCollective: Why You Should Be Securing Big Data In The Cloud?
Via Geekwire: Feds certify Amazon and Microsoft clouds to handle sensitive government data
Via NewsFactor: SoftNAS Introduces File Services for NetApp StorageGRID
Via Redmondmag: AWS Cloud Storage Service Turns 10
Via DropBox Blog: Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Via Computerworld: Dropbox quits Amazon cloud, takes back 500 PB of data
Via HPCwire: Seagate Sets Sights on Broader HPC Market

Via Channelnomics.com: Why Samsung’s Joyent buyout could frame its future
Via GeekyGadgets: Google Drive Cloud Storage Is Now A Little Easier To Organize Thanks To New Tools
Via ZDnet: Google doubles Cloud Compute local SSD capacity: Now it’s 3TB per VM
Via AndroidPolice: Barracuda Is Shutting Down The Copy Cloud Storage Service On May 1st
Via StorageSoup: EMC expands Elastic Cloud (object) Storage
Via Cloud Review: Access Multiple Cloud Apps from a Unified Interface
Via CyberSecurity: Cybersecurity and Accessible Storage Trends
Via eWeek: Cloud Storage Spending Poised for Increase in 2016
Via InfoStor: Object Storage Is In Your Future
Via BioScienceTechnology: Six Reasons to Add Object Storage to Your Genomics Lexicon
Via TechCrunch: Backblaze’s Low-Cost Cloud Storage Service Comes Out Of Beta
Via CloudComputingAdmin: Cloud Storage Decision Making
COSbench for cloud and object storage (Various): White Paper (CMU), PDF overview presentation, Get the bits (software) from Github
Via AWS Blogs: AWS Storage Update – New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction
Via Techcrunch: IBM Acquires Cleversafe To Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy

Via Techcrunch: Developers Can Now Import Data To Google Cloud Storage By Mailing In Their Hard Drives, Tapes And USB Flash Drives
Via vCloud: VMware vCloud Air Object Storage
Via SearchStorage: SwiftStack adds new features to object storage software solution
Via TheVarGuy: Vendor consortium create Ceph advisory board
Via OpenStack: Whats new in OpenStack Liberty
Via Microsoft Azure: File access cloud storage in addition to blobs and object storage
Via AWS: AWS Storage Update – New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction
Via VMware Blogs: Showcasing VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by EMC at EMC World!
Via Venturebeat: Backblaze launches B2 object storage service at 1/4 of the cost of Amazon S3
Via Techcrunch: Wuala, The Secure P2P Cloud Storage Service Acquired By LaCie, To Shut Down
Via ChannelworldIN: 13 firms join to open up Ethernet, object-storage to everyone
Via ITportal: The elephant in the room: The trust deficit issue with public clouds
Via VCpost: Dropbox latest update: Cloud storage service provider now lets you drag and drop URLs with files
Via NetworkAsia: HP’s new converged appliance offers a path to hybrid cloud
Via Techtimes: Google Files For Patent To Search Your Desktop Files, Apps And Cloud Storage

Via CloudTweaks: Questions To Ask Every Cloud Storage Provider
Via MarketWatch: Linux Foundation Brings Together Industry Leaders to Advance Cloud Object Storage Technologies
Via CBR: New Kinetic platform targets open source object storage
Via Techcrunch: Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Overhead Cloud Object Storage
Via StorageIOblog: July 2015 Newsletter Focus on Content Solution Platforms
Via ITnewsline: Hitachi Data Systems Announces New Enhancements to the Hitachi Content Platform Portfolio
Via ITbusinessnet: Caringo Provides Only Software-Based Web-Scale Object Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault
Via ITbusinessnet: Caringo Provides Only Software-Based Web-Scale Object Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault
Via TopTechNews: Dropbox Adds USB Keys To Boost Security
Via ZDnet: SUSE brings its management software to the cloud
Via Forbes: Jumptuit Roadmap Video: A New Search Bar For Your Data At Facebook, Google and Dropbox
Via Forbes: Panzura Global File System — Disrupting the Storage Industry
Via TalkinCloud: Barracuda Launches Cloud Storage and Share Service CudaDrive
Via ITnews: Researchers debut rival to AWS cloud storage
Via NetworkAsia.net: HP launches new scale-out and scale-up Compute portfolios

Via Server StorageIO: May / June 2015 Newsletter Focus on server storage packaging
Via Server StorageIO: April 2015 Newsletter Focus on Cloud and Object storage
Via StudioDaily.com: At NAB, Vendors and Users Both Got Serious About 4K Workflow
Via OpenSource.com: The unofficial guide to OpenStack Summit Vancouver
Via InsideHPC: Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
Via Yahoo Engineering Blog: Yahoo Cloud Object Store – Object Storage at Exabyte Scale
Via the Platform: Inside The Ceph Exascale Storage At Yahoo
Via Swift Summit: Taking the Mystery out of Erasure Codes: A Swift Implementation
Via GovTech: Storage Costs Cloud Police Cam Issue
Via BostonHerald: Booting Up: Storage costs cloud police cam issue
Via StorageIOblog: S3motion Buckets Containers Objects AWS S3 Cloud and EMCcode (with podcast)
Via StorageIOblog: If focused on cost you might miss other cloud storage benefits
Via ComputerWorld: Amazon offers network file storage in the cloud
Via ComputerWeekly: HGST marries helium HDDs and Himalaya in object storage Active Archive
Via GoogleCloudPlatform Blog: GCS Nearline Online storage at Offline price

Via MarketWatch: Global Data Center Provider CyrusOne Announces Direct Connectivity to Google Cloud Platform
Via PRNewsWire: Quantum Announces New Archive Solutions Designed To Reduce Unstructured Data Storage Costs
Via Enterprise Storage Forum: Lustre buying guide
Via StorageIOblog: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements
Via StreetInsider: Western Digital (WDC) to Acquire Object Storage Software Amplidata
Via Enterprise Storage Forum: Dell Invests in Object Storage Startup Exablox
Via Enterprise Storage Forum: Introducing s3motion (S3 and object access docker based appliance)
Via Computerworld: Quantum enhances their cloud and object storage management with new StorNext software version
Via HealthIndustry: 2014 IDC MarketScape perspectives
Via MarketWired: ScaleOut Software Releases Version 5.2 of Its In-Memory Computing Platform
Via CRN: HP Inks Global Reseller Agreement With Object Storage Startup Scality
Via NetApp: NetApp Introduces Software-Defined Object Storage for the Hybrid Cloud
Via ZDnet: NetApp intros software-defined object storage for hybrid cloud adoption
Via SearchCloudStorage: Are more than five nines of availability really possible?

Via SearchCloudStorage: How do primary storage clouds and cloud for backup differ?
Via SearchCloudStorage: What should I consider when using SSD cloud?
Via SearchCloudStorage: Given outages, are you concerned with the security of the cloud?
Via SearchCloudStorage: Is the cost of cloud storage really cheaper than traditional storage?
Via HostReview: Panzura Collaborates With Microsoft Azure To Transform Cloud Storage Into A Globally Distributed NAS
Via ITBusinessNet: Caringo Awarded Patent for Erasure Coding, Replication in Storage Cluster
Via PRWeb: Western Digital Capital Makes Strategic Investment in Amplidata
Via ITwire: Dovecot in for the long haul
Via InfoStor: Top Tips for Object Storage
Via Enterprise Storage ForumObject Storage Buying Guide
Via Enterprise Networking Planet: Cloud Gateways 101
Via eWeek: HP Unveils Smaller, Less Costly Helion Cloud Platform
Via PCadvisor: CA Technologies, AWS and Riverbed bring mainframe Cloud to big four banks
Via CMS wire: The Enterprise Cloud is Finally Moving Beyond Storage
Via Edtech: Microsoft 365’s Massive Cloud Storage Is ‘Icing on Cake’ to University’s Upgrade

Via CRN: Quantum Acquires Symform, Plans To Bring Cloud-Based Backups To Enterprise
Via BusinessWire: OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Adds Storage Policies for Enterprise Users and Cloud Operators
Via SearchStorage: EMC ViPR and Data Services (including Object storage)
Via Enterprise Storage Forum: Cloud Appliance Buying Guide
Via Datacenter Dynamics: Verizon, Amplidata and Cloud Object Storage
Via ZDnet: IBM drops SoftLayer cloud storage costs closer to its rivals
Via YellowBricks: How long will VSAN rebuilding take with large drives? via Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) and his Yellow-Bricks site. Note that VMware VSAN uses one of many different forms of object storage (e.g. its not S3 or Swift or CDMI) rather a means for storing VMware vSphere entities and items (e.g. various types of objects)
Via Computerweekly: Object storage: An architecture for the petabyte era? Via Simon Robinson (@simonrob451) appearing at
Via MarketWatch: Western Digital/HGST announce alternative to Seagate Kinetic HDD for object storage
Via EMC: EMC Announces Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance via EMC
Via TechCrunch: RedHat acquires InkTank provider of Ceph services
Via CompueterWeekly: DataDirect Networks (DDN) WOS enhancements

Hybrid Clouds: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Private Environments (Recorded for Playback: BrightTalk Webinar)
Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage and Hybrid Clouds by Microsoft/Storsimple and Marc Farley aka (@Gofarley (or what ever name he is currently using ;))
Goodbye 2013, hello 2014 predictions present and future
Enterprises should just ignore OpenStack via Virtualizedgeek aka Keith Townsend (@virtualizedgeek)
OpenStack Swift Object Storage for the Cloud Grows via The Var Guy (@thevarguy) aka Christopher Tozzi
For Seagate Kinetic to fly…it’s gonna take an ecosystem (Via @Seagate The Storage Effect Blog)
Object-defined storage (it’s not about object storage) (Via Enrico Signoretti @Juku)
Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform
Why You Should Consider Object Storage (Via 21CIT)
Object Storage Is in Your Future, Even if You Use Files (Via 21CIT)
The Right Storage Option Is Important for Big Data Success (Via FedTech)
Hybrid cloud storage with an object storage back end(Via Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley at Microsoft Technet Blogs)

Via SearchStorage: EMC ViPR aimed at service providers, enterprise storage (Video)
EMC ViPR virtual physical object and software defined storage
EMC ViPR software defined object storage part II
EMC ViPR software defined object storage part III
The rise of cloud-integrated storage and EMC’s ViPR (Via Marc Farley of Microsoft aka @MicroFarley)
ViPR: Under the covers (Via Chad Sakacc of EMC aka @sakacc)
Introducing EMC ViPR (Via Chuck Hollis aka @Chuckhollis of EMC)
EMC Tells their SDS story (e.g. ViPR) (Via the Solutions Architect aka Michael Letschin aka @mletschin)
Object Paucity (Via Martin Glassborow aka @storagebod)
Object Storage: You can call it NAS 2.0! (Via Enrico Signoretti aka @esignoretti)
Object storage is the platform, gateways are the solution (Via Enrico Signoretti aka @esignorettii)
Files Vs. Objects: the difference is in the value (Via Enrico Signoretti aka @esignorettii)
Conversation with Justin Stottlemyer of Shutterfly and object storage discussion (Pod cast)

Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview
Ceph Day Amsterdam 2012 (Object and cloud storage)
Ceph Day in Amsterdam and Sage Weil on Object Storage (Podcast)
Mr. Backup (Curtis Preston) goes back to Ceph School (Video and Podcast)
AWS (Amazon) storage gateway, first, second and third impressions

Where to learn more

The following resources provide additional information about big data, bulk, software defined, cloud and object storage.

Click here to view (and hear) more content including cloud and object storage fundamentals.
Via StorageIOblog: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look
Via InfoStor: Cloud Storage Concerns, Considerations and Trends
Via InfoStor: Object Storage Is In Your Future
Via Server StorageIO: April 2015 Newsletter Focus on Cloud and Object storage
Via StorageIOblog: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements
Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview
AWS (Amazon) storage gateway, first, second and third impressions

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Human Face of Big Data (Book review)

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (Book review)

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Wrap up and summary

Object and cloud storage are in your future, the questions are when, where, with what and how among others. Watch for more content and links to be added here as well as on the main object storage center page including posts, presentations, pod casts, perspectives along with services and product solutions profiles.

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2017 (vSAN and vCloud). Author of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press), as well as Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

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