Posts Tagged ‘Amazon S3’

Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation

Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP.  In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others.  Have a look at this great post he wrote on why standards aren’t...
September 22nd, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Cloud Computing: Have You Got Your Atmos onLine Account?

I registered for the beta of EMC’s Atmos Cloud storage offering, Atmos onLine right after EMC World and this week I received confirmation that my registration had been accepted. So tonight I’ve been looking through the documentation before I start putting together some code to test the service...
June 4th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Cloud Computing: Misunderstanding Data Availability

As is widely reported (here by TechCrunch), Carbonite, an online backup service,  have lost customer data.  Another one of a long line-up of data losses, (whether partial or complete – which has taken some companies down) this demonstrates that relying on someone else to keep your data safe...
March 28th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt III

In my two previous articles I discussed Cloud Storage and the concept of using middleware to store multiple copies of data across different service providers. In this final part, I’d like to discuss the whole issue of security. Using “the cloud” to store data requires a major shift...
January 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use. Standards One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far which determines how cloud...
December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More