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Why should I use the S3 API?

Cloudian FAQ: Why should I use the S3 API?

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Cloudian FAQ: What are the levels of S3 Compatibility?

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Cloudian FAQ: How is Cloudian priced?

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Cloudian FAQ: Do you have large deployments of Cloudian?

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Cloudian FAQ: Why should I use object storage?

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Cloudian Cloud storage

Cloudian Cloud storage, bedrock of an Amazon-style cloud

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Storage-as-a-Service

Today, with the availability of off-the-shelf cloud storage platforms, service providers of all sizes can now build cloud storage services with very little risk. Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) can now be easily added to a service provider's offerings with minimal cost, little deployment time, and significant ROI.

Object Storage

There is a clear opportunity for service providers to increase revenue and growth rates through object-based STaaS. However, in order to be successful, service providers must provide the right set of capabilities to meet the needs of their customers.

Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?

by Bianca Schroeder Garth A. Gibson, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we present and analyze field-gathered disk replacement data...