Cloud services and gateways
How public cloud storage is packaged, connected and replicated, and what a gateway changes for applications that still live on premises.
Cloud / Bulk / Big Data / Object Storage
Object storage, cloud and the data infrastructure behind them.
Software defined, bulk, cloud and object storage exist to support expanding and diverse application data demands. This center collects the briefings, primers and reviews that explain how the pieces fit, from the first S3 bucket to the archive that has to last for decades.
- 16briefings
- 7themes
- 4books by the author
Start here
- Welcome to the centerScope, orientation and the original resource list.
- Object storage fundamentalsBuckets, namespaces, endpoints and replication.
- Data infrastructure primerServers, storage, I/O, virtualization and cloud.
01 / The landscape
Four themes, one data infrastructure
The archive follows the places where object storage meets the rest of the data center. Start with the theme closest to your problem.
Object storage and bulk data
Buckets, namespaces, endpoints and the economics of scale. The working vocabulary behind S3, Swift, Ceph and the services built on them.
Data infrastructure
Servers, storage, I/O networking, virtualization and the software that ties them together. The platform beneath every cloud and archive.
Big data and retention
What happens when data, and the people who depend on it, live longer. Retention, archive and access patterns that have to work across decades.
02 / The index
Recent briefings
Primers, cloud notes, book reviews and perspective pieces, ordered by publication date.
- 7 March 2017Cloud, bulk and object storage fundamentalsObject storage
- 7 March 2017Software defined, cloud and object storage news trendsObject storage
- 21 January 2017Data infrastructure primer: the resources behind ITData infrastructure
- 14 August 2015Some August 2015 AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud updatesCloud
- 30 April 2015April 2015 Server StorageIO update newsletterNews
- 9 April 2015Cloud conversations: AWS EFS Elastic File System, a first previewCloud
- 25 March 2015Cloud conversations: AWS S3 cross region replicationCloud
- 6 January 2014Goodbye 2013, hello 2014: predictions past, present and futurePerspective
There is no such thing as an information recession.Greg Schulz, Object Storage Center
03 / The shelf
Reference shelf
Three longer pieces that do the work of a glossary, a map and a news desk.
Primer / 2017
Cloud, bulk and object storage fundamentals
The working vocabulary of object storage: buckets, namespaces, endpoints, replication and the cloud services built on them.
Read the primerPrimer / 2017
Data infrastructure primer
A guided map of servers, storage, I/O networking, virtualization and cloud, and how the pieces form a working data infrastructure.
Read the primerIndex / 2017
Software defined and object storage news
A dated collection of cloud, software defined and object storage news, with the vendor moves and technical shifts worth following.
Open the index
04 / The publisher
Written from inside the data center
Server StorageIO and UnlimitedIO LLC is a technology advisory and consulting firm. Its work serves technology vendors, value added resellers, IT organizations, investors, press, media and event organizers. The perspective comes from experience as an IT customer, vendor, reseller, advisor, analyst, author and consultant.
The center is part of the StorageIO micro site collection of resources. It keeps the technical detail, the original dates and the language of the period, while making the material easier to find and read.