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Submission + - Object storage and POSIX should merge (enterprisestorageforum.com)

Submitted by storagedude on Friday August 21, 2015 @04:28PM

storagedude writes: Object storage’s low cost and ease of use have made it all the rage, but a few additional features would make it a worthier competitor to POSIX-based file systems, writes Jeff Layton at Enterprise Storage Forum. Byte-level access, easier application portability and a few commands like open, close, read, write and lseek could make object storage a force to be reckoned with.

‘Having an object storage system that allows byte-range access is very appealing,’ writes Layton. ‘It means that rewriting applications to access object storage is now an infinitely easier task. It can also mean that the amount of data touched when reading just a few bytes of a file is greatly reduced (by several orders of magnitude). Conceptually, the idea has great appeal. Because I'm not a file system developer I can't work out the details, but the end result could be something amazing.’

Submission + - If your cloud vendor goes out of business, are you ready?

Submitted by storagedude on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @08:33PM

storagedude writes: With Amazon Web Services losing $2 billion a year, it’s not inconceivable that the cloud industry could go the way of storage service providers (remember them?). So any plan for cloud services must include a way to retrieve your data quickly in case your cloud service provider goes belly up without much notice (think Nirvanix). In an article at Enterprise Storage Forum, Henry Newman notes that recovering your data from the cloud quickly is a lot harder than you might think. Even if you have a dedicated OC-192 channel, it would take 11 days to move a petabyte of data – and that’s with no contention or other latency. One possible solution: a failover agreement with a second cloud provider – and make sure it’s legally binding.

Submission + - VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt - and It's Better (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by poseur on Monday October 13, 2014 @04:21PM

poseur writes: If you're looking for an alternative to TrueCrypt, you could do worse than VeraCrypt, which adds iterations and corrects weaknesses in TrueCrypt's API, drivers and parameter checking.

Submission + - Do Developers Need Free Perks to Thrive? (datamation.com)

Submitted by jammag on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:35AM

jammag writes: Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they get cut, then layoffs might be next. “The sodas are just the wake-up call. If the culture changes to be focused more on cost-cutting than on innovation and creativity, then would you still want to work here? I wouldn’t.” Are free perks really that important?

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