Comparing Rackspace Cloud Block Storage CBS vs Zadara VPSA
Rackspace recently announced CBS, their new cloud block storage offering.
Rackspace recently announced CBS, their new cloud block storage offering.
Zadara allows each cloud customer to have their own virtual private storage array, and connect from Rackspace Cloud at very low latency. (currently available only in ORD datacenter)
Amazon recently announced Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes and EBS-Optimized instances. These two new features make Amazon the public cloud provider with the most advanced storage capabilities.
Enabling the Datacenter of the Future
Zadara allows each cloud customer to have their own virtual private storage array, and connect from OpSource Cloud at very low latency. (Currently only available in Eastern US.)
Zadara allows each cloud customer to have their own virtual private storage array, and connect from Amazon EC2 at very low latency. (currently available only in US East)
When people talk about cloud storage, they usually refer to storage that is accessible from outside the cloud, to stores files, pictures, and backups. Sometimes referred as object storage, a good example of this type of cloud storage is Amazon S3. In this article, I will be focusing on a different type of cloud storage – the storage needed by cloud servers to run their applications. This storage is accessed from inside the cloud and used by the cloud servers to mount their filesystems and databases. In Amazon AWS’s terminology, this is what is called EBS. A MySQL database or MS NTFS are good examples of a database and filesystem that will use a block storage device and not object storage.