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Data Direct Networks (DDN) answers the unstructured data challenge with major updates to its advanced WOS Object Storage Platform, and announces that it is joining the Active Archive Alliance.
Hoping to help customers conduct cloud-based proof of concept trials for object storage, Quantum (QTM) launched a new Lattus Demo Lab, located inside Switch SuperNAP data centers.
Amazon Web Services said today that its Simple Storage Service (S3) has now hit 2 billion objects. That works out to 20 objects for every human that has ever been born, according to Amazon's Jeff Barr.
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) is acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. The acquisition expands Rackspace’s big data play, allowing them to provide Open Cloud customers with demanding applications with a NoSQL DBaaS.
Amazon's Jeff Barr reports that its S3 cloud storage service now houses more than 1 trillion objects. "That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our Galaxy," Jeff notes.
The number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services' S3 storage service tripled in the 12-month period between the final quarters of 2010 and 2011. Amazon S3 now stores an amazing 762 billion objects.
What's the state of the cloud? It's getting bigger all the time, and sophisticated enterprise applications represent one of the fastest-growing sectors. That's the bottom line from Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon Web Services.
How big is Amazon's cloud? It's huge, and getting huger. Amazon Web Services' S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects.