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Cost-Effective Solution for Infrequent Data Access and Retention with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier, an online tier designed explicitly for efficiently storing infrequently accessed or modified data while ensuring immediate availability.
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System
During the latest AWS Storage Day event, Amazon announced the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The new open-source file client provides through a file interface the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3, supporting data transfer at up to 100 Gb/second between each EC2 instance and the object storage.
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Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data
At the recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon announced AWS HealthImaging. The new HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare providers to store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at scale.
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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Adds Multishares for Filestore Enterprise
Google Cloud has moved Filestore Enterprise Multishares for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) into general availability. With Filestore Enterprise Multishares, multiple persistent volumes can be packed onto a Filestore Enterprise instance to improve storage utilization and reduce costs.
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Google Cloud Introduces Autoclass for Cloud Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs
Google Cloud recently announced the availability of Autoclass for Cloud Storage, a bucket-level setting that automates the lifecycle management of objects based on their last access time. The new feature simplifies cost optimization for workloads with unpredictable and unknown access patterns.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Seán McCord on Kubernetes Storage Technologies
Kubernetes platform offers a variety of storage systems and which option you choose depends on storage characteristics like scalability, performance, and cost. Seán McCord from Sidero Labs spoke on Wednesday at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the tools the teams can use to evaluate when to use which storage solution.
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AWS Adds VMware Cloud on AWS Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS and VMware recently announced VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Designed for data-intensive VMware workloads, the new option is a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS, reducing storage costs and simplifying migration to the cloud for enterprises.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.
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Hazelcast Announces a New Unified Platform with Version 5.0
Hazelcast, the distributed computation and storage platform, has announced the release of the Hazelcast Platform version 5.0. This new platform unifies the existing products Hazelcast IMDG and Hazelcast Jet. InfoQ spoke about this new release with John DesJardins, CTO at Hazelcast.
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Amazon S3 Adds New Storage Class for Long-Lived Data and Simplifies Access Management
During the latest re:Invent Amazon announced the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class, a new storage class for rarely-accessed data that requires milliseconds retrieval. A new bucket owner enforced option lets customers disable the ACLs associated with the bucket and the objects.
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Cloudflare Challenges AWS with R2 Storage and No Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced R2 storage, a S3-compatible service to store large amounts of data with no egress bandwidth fees associated. An automatic migration of objects from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 will be offered to facilitate the transition or integration for existing AWS deployments.
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AWS Introduces New Intelligent Tier Options for S3 and EFS
AWS announced a few features and changes to their storage approach for S3 and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) regarding Intelligent Tiering options during the recent AWS Storage Day. The updates and changes will allow customers to leverage S3 and EFS more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At AWS Storage Day 2021, the cloud provider announced Amazon FSx for ONTAP, a managed file system for ONTAP data management software. Supporting file access and storage functionalities already used by enterprise customers, the service targets the migration to the cloud of applications and workloads that require high-performance ONTAP storage.