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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Fountainhead.

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s fully software-defined compute, networking, storage and management – all in one product with automated and simplified operations. He has held this position since March 2006. It’s the solution that will help us address the business outcomes our customers have expressed to me directly as their most critical priorities.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Predictions 2020: What’s Going to Happen in Cloud Computing

CTOvision

Cloud computing has been a Top 3 trend in IT since it took root with the introduction of AWS’s S3 data storage in late 2006. Its predecessor, the ASP (application service provider), was an important pioneering technology, but it generally was a fragile and unreliable solution.

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

GeekWire

This month, the company expects to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an application for the certification of its Natrium reactor , which it developed with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. ” So in 2006 in Bellevue, Wash., That heat is transferred to molten salt, shown in green, that travels to large storage tanks.

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