Object storage
Storage service levels: Availability and durability
Storage service levels are usually written as two numbers with a lot of nines in them: one for availability and one for durability. They look similar and are ...
Author
Joshua Silvia
Data sovereignty
CLOUD Act and storage: Where jurisdiction matters
Data residency answers where data sits. The US CLOUD Act raises a different question: who can be compelled to hand it over. Since 2018, a provider subject to ...
Object storage
Object storage key rotation: How encryption keys change
Encryption policies usually say keys must be rotated on a schedule, and storage teams usually discover what that means only when the first rotation is due. In ...
Object storage
Erasure coding layouts: Capacity and resilience
Erasure coding is usually described with two numbers, such as 8+3 or 12+4, and compared on a single property: how much raw capacity it consumes for each unit ...
Data sovereignty
Hybrid cloud data sovereignty: Keeping control when data spans environments
A regional bank keeps customer records in its own data centers and runs analytics in a public cloud. A ministry stores case files on premises and uses a cloud ...
Storage economics
Capacity-based or node-based storage licensing: which costs less at scale?
Two storage proposals can quote similar prices today and diverge dramatically five years later. Often the reason is not hardware but licensing. ...
Storage economics
How to build a business case to replace incumbent storage
Most storage replacements do not fail on technology. They fail in a budget meeting, when someone asks why the organization should take on a migration instead ...
Data sovereignty
What is ISMAP and what does it mean for cloud storage in Japan?
A Japanese ministry wants to move a records system to the cloud. A SaaS company wants to sell to local governments. A domestic cloud provider wants its storage ...
Data sovereignty
How do UAE organizations meet data residency rules?
A hospital group in Abu Dhabi is modernizing its imaging archive. A bank in Dubai is replacing its backup infrastructure. A government entity is building a ...
Data sovereignty
What do UK government security classifications mean for data storage?
A UK government department plans to consolidate file shares and archives onto object storage. A local authority evaluates a hosted backup service. A supplier ...