Chip, Disclaimer: I am an employee of Basho, makers of Riak CS.
+1. The S3 compatibility layer provided by CloudStack lacks may of S3's availability guarantees since it stored the index in a MySQL table, and files in a single folder on disk. There are certainly ways to increase the reliability of this implementation (e.g. placing the file storage on a SAN, clustering MySQL). However, the operational complexity would be far greater than Riak CS, and would still lack horizontal scalability on commodity hardware (i.e. much lower cost per GB). If you interested in drilling in more deeply, I would be happy to have an offline conversation regarding Riak CS. Thanks, -John On May 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > CloudStack isn't an object storage system really... the best bet, if > that's the focus of what he wants to do, is to look at things like Riak > CS, Swift, Ceph, etc... > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from a >> potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service. >> >> His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3) and >> would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use >> case. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> *Mike Tutkowski* >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> o: 303.746.7302 >> Advancing the way the world uses the >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> *™*
