By: Nik Simpson
It’s not just commodity drives, the use of commodity hardware rather than proprietary array or NAS hardware can also be an important factor
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One possible savings is, as Marc says, being able to have higher utilization, since demand is shared across many customers (and assuming customers don’t all need max capacity at the same time)....
View ArticleBy: James Orlean
Robin, you said “This suggests that cloud storage will need unique services to win. Online backup is an example of a service where users are buying more than capacity” I agree. We are currently testing...
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Marc, taking that model to its logical conclusion, cloud storage providers will end up supporting the most difficult clients – the hamsters who are always hopping around – while the elephants leave for...
View ArticleBy: Wes Felter
Don’t forget power. It’s hard to get that 1.1 PUE if you don’t have your own warehouse.
View ArticleBy: Joe Kraska
Can you get to 1.1PUE? I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. Anyway you can negotiate pretty good prices from storage vendors if you’re buying a PB every other month is one answer. Homogeneity is...
View ArticleBy: Jerry Leichter
You’re posing the question in a bad way. In asking about “economies of scale,” you’re assuming a cost curve where larger scale decreases costs at all scales. This is the kind of cost curve that leads...
View ArticleBy: Pete Steege
Put another way, storage infrastructures are commodotizing. That means the winning strategy is to focus on how to organize your storage to create more value, given cost is not much of a differentiator....
View ArticleBy: Rex
Since we’ve drifted from “Are there economies of scale …?” to “Are economies of scale required …?” Consider three scenarios from the buyer’s perspective: 1 – I need more storage, but can’t get the...
View ArticleBy: SitePoint Blogs » Five Ideas for Billowing Cloud Storage
[...] as simple as buying today’s biggest, cheapest drives. It includes power consumption, and as Robin Harris at StorageMojo points out, the number of people that are needed to manage it. Also...
View ArticleBy: Five Ideas for Billowing Cloud Storage | BiggestLobster.com
[...] power consumption, and as Robin Harris at StorageMojo points ou…, the number of people that are needed [...]
View ArticleBy: fxus.cn » Blog Archive » Five Ideas for Billowing Cloud Storage
[...] as simple as buying today’s biggest, cheapest drives. It includes power consumption, and as Robin Harris at StorageMojo points out, the number of people that are needed to manage it. Also...
View ArticleBy: Adonis Goosby.com – Cloud Computing: Rebranding 101
[...] very true the concept of cloud computing is nothing new. However the economies of scale and increase of services available are. Even if the “cloud” was some clever rebranding [...]
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