(In the spirit of Joerg Moellenkamp’s thought experiments:)
That virtualized Fishworks appliance got me thinking: What if you combined this with this? Yeah, managing Elastic Block Store devices would require some changes, but, if you needed a NAS for your EC2 instances…
Amazon’s much-awaited Elastic Block Store for EC2 is out this morning; I’m excited to give this a try. A couple downers from the announcement: The pricing is somewhat high - $0.10 per allocated GB per month plus $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests - and the reliability isn’t where I’d like it to be. [...]
So I returned from a little five-day weekend to sunny Lake Chelan and the Columbia River to an RSS reader bursting at the seams with new posts. By far the best post was one later deleted:
Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (Yeah, that link’s dead - like I said, it was later deleted.) [...]
The Hitz report - Robin Harris at StorageMojo on the Sun-NetApp lawsuit:
NetApp’s biggest misperception is that WAFL is somehow central to the success they are enjoying today. That was true about 10 years ago. Guys, your average F500 CIO today could care less about WAFL.
NetApp is growing because they offer a compelling value proposition of [...]
Eucalyptus - “EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces.” If VMware is perhaps working on [...]
SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug) - Blog post about how SmugMug uses (and doesn’t use) Amazon Web Services; I found the comment that EC2 Persistent Storage “isn’t performant enough” intriguing - I’ll be interested to see what its performance characteristics are once it’s available to the public. Excerpt from the post: “Let me [...]