Erasure Coding vs. RAID

RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a way to spread data across a set of drives to prevent the loss of one drive causing permanent data loss. RAID works in two different ways: (i) a complete mirror image

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Watch Out Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison Is Gunning For You

Larry Ellison used his recent keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco as an opportunity to fire a shot across Amazon’s bow. He cited benchmark test results showing that Oracle’s DBaas performed 105 times faster for analytics workloads

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Interesting Metrics on the Web Infrastructure Business

Number of Cloud Products from Google, AWS & Azure Google (7 Products): Compute, Storage, Networking, Big Data, Machine Learning, Operations, Tools, and 37 sub-products Azure (12 Products): Compute, Web+Mobile, Data+Storage, Analytics, Networking, Hybrid Integration, IAM, Media+CDN, Developer Services, Management, Intelligence,

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What’s With The Love Fest For Amazon

The last few days have been really interesting watching Amazon get all this love from the media, investors and practically the whole world. The latest one to fall in love is Mr. Morgan Stanley himself, smitten by stunning beauty of

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Cool Startup: Cleversafe

Cleversafe was founded in 2004 and has received $91.4 million in VC funding. The HQ is based in Chicago, and they have around 100 employees. They offer object-based storage solutions to companies that need PB’s of storage. They have a

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Akamai vs Amazon

Akamai, the largest CDN on the planet, never envisioned a bookstore encroaching on its turf. Then again, neither did HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle or Dell. Amazon dominates the markets for cloud computing and cloud storage. It’s trying to do the

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