You may have seen Amazon’s announcement of the AWS Storage Gateway beta
here, here, and here. Truth be told, the cloud storage gateway market is
starting to catch fire.
Amazon’s move validates the need for an iSCSI cloud storage gateway to
easily deliver cloud storage into business environments and acknowledges that
integration through APIs is not a process businesses will easily embrace. The
deeper implication is that gateways facilitate the adoption of cloud storage
as an alternative to on-premise or off-premise traditional storage, helping
Amazon tap into a large multi-billion dollar data storage market. Does this
mean more cloud providers may want to offer a gateway in the future? You bet.
There’s a lot of product differentiation between AWS Gateway and existing
storage gateway products like CloudArray. Caching, performance, encryption,
deduplication, compressio... (more)
A new report says there's little stopping Europe catching up to the US in
cloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economics and
Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected
economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone services
industries in the UK, USA, Germany and Italy from 2010-2014.
The full report [PDF] is titled ‘Modelling the Cloud’, by Jonathan
Liebenau, Patrik Karrberg, Alexander Grous and Daniel Castro.
Investing in cloud computing, says the study, contributes to growth and job
creation in both the... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
The GC Community Cloud ITSS documentation stipulates the Cloud service
specifications that the Government of Canada plans to deploy, and can be used
by external commercial providers as well as internally by Shared Services
Canada users.
They provide technical design blueprints for security configurations to
ensure Cloud environments are compliant with Government of Canada standards.
Primarily they can be used as industry-wide product specifications because
they’re based on the NIST models that are now universally recognized as the
default Cloud Best Practices, and relate to how s... (more)
There was an interesting discussion on one of the table-top wargame lists I
belong to (Two Hour Wargames if you follow the hobby) about the
“production value” of a given set of printed products. While it
devolved (as web conversations often seem to) to a comparison with Hollywood,
the point was valid. The original reviewer that caused the thread to get
started was more interested in how pretty the books were than the quality of
the contents. I, personally, don’t care how ugly or mal-produced a wargames
ruleset is if the rules are consistent and provide many hours of enjoyable ... (more)
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