Public cloud storage System who is the home of the flower

One of the key values of server virtualization technology is public cloud computing, and one of the main uses of the public cloud is to provide cloud storage. But deciding who delivers the best public cloud storage System is a tricky task, as follows:

Business Nasuni, which specializes in assessing public cloud storage, is a MA based storage provider. The company recently published a report titled "Cloud Storage Trends 2013", which focuses on public cloud storage offerings from five companies (Amazon, Google, HP, Microsoft and Rackspace), which use a variety of virtualization technologies in the cloud computing world.

Last year, Nasuni found that the industry's relatively good products are Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, which is also reasonable, because Amazon's S3 is a mature and testing performance of the product, and the same time Microsoft's Azure as a new generation of products, Rapid development can not be underestimated.

One of the biggest concerns is how Azure's development can be sustained and successful. Nasuni's report found that Azure's current knack for defeating Amazon S3 could be summed up in three broad areas: performance, scalability, and stability.

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report notes that although Azure's time in the market is less than S3 and not comparable to S3 's storage volume at an administrative level, it has to be said that Microsoft's investment in Azure projects is starting to benefit, and the technology they offer to the market is also the first. "

Microsoft has made two major innovations, one of which is the use of solid-state drives instead of hard drive logs, and perhaps more important: the network of 10Gbps storage nodes is implemented to replace the old 1Gbps.

with hardware load balancers replacing software load balancers, there are significant improvements in reliability and throughput. There are other changes, the details of which can be found in thewindows Azure blog.

for people interested in public cloud storage, the good news is that Nasuni's research also found that all other vendors have made significant progress in their services over the same period last year, including changes in performance and reduced errors.

The report has the following conclusions: Obviously, the overall trend is positive, and this is excellent news for the entire cloud storage market, and as more and more telecom operators develop to enterprise-class cloud storage providers, the big agencies and suppliers will compete with low prices and advanced technology. To improve their entire storage infrastructure.

But Nasuni company has a group of such wise men, and even though Azure has now beaten all other companies ' plans, it insists on Amazon as its primary storage provider, but Azure can only be a level two supplier in some cases. And why? Nasuni Company's official explanation is: We evaluate a supplier of the key is in the market maturity and experience, Amazon is currently in the market is the richest experience, and in this field is the most mature business.

Is it just a lucky time? What happened next shows how prescient the decisions of nasuni companies are. Azure suffered a global outage of about 12 hours. What was the reason traced finally found? A simple low-level error: Microsoft forgot to update the SSL security certificate. Oh。

This is not the case for the first time, Microsoft's Azure has a certificate problem, similar things happened a year ago. Everything that happens in

shows that it is important to have infrastructure in place to support public cloud computing, and that management incompetence or simple human error can lead to fatal blows. This generally happens in less mature environments, especially when administrators are inexperienced, causing many low-level errors.

Before drawing any conclusions about the risk that a common enterprise simply relies on the public cloud, don't forget that human error can happen anywhere: the example of a corporate IT person forgetting to renew a certificate is often seenFresh, they will inevitably do so repeatedly in dealing with the same problems in future. In fact, do not bitten ten years shy. This time a public cloud storage provider made a mistake, but that does not mean that the market is completely no longer trusting the cloud.