Amazon makes Cold Storage sexy, Glacier has a bunch of chatter

greenm3.com Aug 22 2012 Storage

I saw the Amazon Glacier announcement and decided to watch how things progress. The news is pretty high. Amazon Glacier Offers Low-Cost Data Archiving InformationWeek - ‎2 hours ago‎ Amazon Web Services expanded its cloud services portfolio Tuesday with the launch of Amazon Glacier, a low-cost archiving option. Befitting its chilly namesake, the new service aims to be the data equivalent of cryogenic storage--that is, it's designed for ... Amazon Launches Glacier Data Archiving and Backup Service TalkinCloud (blog) - ‎2 hours ago‎ Amazon isn't pulling any punches as it launches Glacier either. According to the cloud provider, “companies typically overpay for data archiving” due to required upfront payments and their inability to accurately guess what their capacity requirements will be. Amazon launches Glacier cloud storage, hopes enterprise will go cold on tape use ZDNet - ‎Aug 21, 2012‎ "Using Amazon Glacier... unlimited archival storage is available to [AWS customers] with a ...

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