Azure, Fair and Balanced
With our Cloud Storage and Cloud Migration reports we provided some data that presents Microsoft Azure’s storage service in a pretty positive light. So people are often surprised when they ask us what vendor we use behind Nasuni’s enterprise storage services -- the answer is that it’s mostly Amazon S3 today. Like any vendor using a third party component we’d love to have a true second source for that component, but so far we have no vendors that are close enough to be considered a true second source. …
Data in the Cloud: Ebbs and Flows - Part 4
Migration scenarios Part 3 in our series examined the performance of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace Cloud Files during different bulk migration scenarios. In the final part to the series we look at what conclusions can be drawn from our testing. It is important to keep in mind that our battery of tests are not meant to be comprehensive. While the results may be useful to anyone considering cloud storage, we focus on what is important to our customers. Being able to move large numbers of objects…
Data in the Cloud: Ebbs and Flows - Part 3
Part 3: CSP Performance Measurements Part 1 of the series looked at the importance of performance in trying to avoid vendor lock-in. Part 2 established the criteria that will be used to measure the performance of different bulk migration scenarios within and across Cloud Storage Providers (CSP). In part 3 we run through the different scenarios and look at the performance of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace Cloud Files. Case 1: S3 to S3 Migration While Amazon has some internal functions like…
Tech Talk: Data Migration - Part 1 (Introduction to Testing)
In part one of Nasuni's cloud report, we looked at how cloud providers stacked up against each other in terms of performance, stability, and scalability. As a follow-up to that testing we take a closer look at performance in terms of data migration. How fast can one of our customer's data sets be moved from Amazon S3 to Microsoft Azure? Or from Azure to S3? In the following video Rob Mason explains why this is such an important consideration and how we went about the testing.
Tech Talk: Data Migration - Part 2 (Tools & Testing)
In part 2 of the Data Migration Tech Talk series, Rob Mason goes into more detail about the tools and testing used to benchmark the cloud providers.
Why Size Really Matters in the Cloud
There’s no shortage of cloud service providers these days, but new tests from Nasuni, a provider of storage systems that are integrated with multiple back-end cloud storage services, finds that not all cloud computing platforms are created equal.
Tech Talk: Data Migration - Part 3 (CSP Limitations)
In part 3 of the Data Migration Tech Talk series, Rob Mason explains how transfer limitations imposed by the cloud providers impacts the time it takes to move data between the various clouds.
Data in the Cloud: Ebbs and Flows - Part 2
Migration Scenarios In part 1 of the series we looked at the significance and some of the criteria that needs to be considered when executing a bulk data migration in the cloud. There could be a number of reasons to do a migration -- perhaps they’re merging accounts after being acquired, or perhaps they’re giving their data to another company, perhaps the company has decided (or been informed) that one CSP is better than another. The cases basically come down to two situations: move data within a…
Tech Talk: Security and the Cloud (Full Presentation)
David Shaw, contributor to the OpenPGP standard and Nasuni Core Engineer, talks about security and encryption as it relates to cloud storage.
Tech Talk: What Happens if a Cloud Provider Shuts Down?
A question that comes up all the time: What happens if the provider that Nasuni is using goes out of business - or is going to go out of business - what would happen?
