Amazon today launched a new web service – EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the ...

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Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 ...

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Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

Object storage software startup Scality introduced version 5.0 of its RING software for software-defined storage at VMworld yesterday. The software has been given a number of enhancements, with ...

If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. That is precisely what Amazon ...

This whitepaper focuses on the reduction of EBS storage footprint. We start by clarifying the reasons for the rapid growth of data and subsequent rapid rise in storage, explain how this affects ...

2 December 2019 - The first electrons have been injected in the new ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source storage ring according to schedule. This is an important milestone on the way to opening to the ...

After lightning downed parts of Amazon's European cloud over the weekend, a fault appeared in the company's storage software that caused the system to accidentally delete customer data. The software ...