Comments on: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

By: Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation « The Storage Architect

Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation « The Storage Architect — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:01:59 +0000

[...] concept of evolving standardisation is extremely exciting. Last year, I discussed RAIC (here and here) – the concept of using multiple clouds to form a redundant [...]

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Cloud Computing: Cloud StandardisationcostExtendin « The Storage Architect — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:57:55 +0000

[...] concept of evolving standardisation is extremely exciting. Last year, I discussed RAIC (here and here) – the concept of using multiple clouds to form a redundant [...]

By: craig

craig — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Geoff,
We haven’t yet posted content on CloudArray, but will do so later this month on our corporate site: http://www.twinstrata.com. I’m also going to be briefing Chris on the solution later this week.
thanks,
Craig

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:14:00 +0000

Craig,

Do you have a website up and running where this concept (Cloud Array) is hashed out more? Would like to learn more about your solution in this context.

By: Chris M Evans

Chris M Evans — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:49:00 +0000

Craig, yes I would be very interested. If you post a comment with your contact details and I will get hold of you from there (I won’t publish the contact details comment)

By: craig

craig — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Chris- great insight. My company will be releasing a product in Q1 that addresses much of the middleware functionality you’ve proposed. In terms of the interface, we’ve chosen iSCSI. I’d be happy to share more on one-off basis, or discuss beta testing CloudArray when it’s avaialble.
Craig

By: Chris M Evans

Chris M Evans — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:40:00 +0000

Thanks Taylor!

I agree with the tiering issue; it is possible to make Cloud another tier. Question is, how to seamlessly access it.

By: Taylor Allis

Taylor Allis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:35:00 +0000

Chris – wow, RAIC – great, original thought. I think there is a great middleware opportunity here.

Another way to look at cloud storage is another tier of storage with a very low $/GB – in thinking about it this way, RAIC is a great idea. However, one of the reasons why some users may want to move to the cloud is b/c they don’t want to deal with RAID levels in the first place. But if you want reliability and reducdancy out of your cloud storage, then this is the way to do it. This could be a feature from the cloud providers – if users see that their data is being replicated to different sites behind the cloud then they get relaiblity and ease of use.

I have been interested in how SmugMug has leveraged the cloud with S3 – all their data sits there, non-replicated and they use disk in their own data center as hot cache…