Amazon cloud storage gateway
With SG, now in beta, Amazon offers a storage service built on a software-based appliance that lets companies continue to store data in private clouds while backing it up to AWS' Simple Storage Service (S3) in the background.
This perceptual shift will result in running AWS code behind their firewalls, a fact which will enhance the perception of AWS as an enterprise player and not only public cloud service providers.
Once the AWS Storage Gateway’s software appliance is installed on a local host, you can mount Storage Gateway volumes to on-premises application servers as iSCSI devices. Data written to these volumes is maintained on the on-premises storage hardware while being asynchronously backed up to AWS, where it is stored in Amazon S3 in the form of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) snapshots.
Posted at 04:19PM feb 01, 2012 by Boris in Generalno |