Thanks, everyone! A person is actually presenting on Riak CS right now. :)
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:53 PM, John Burwell <jburw...@basho.com> wrote: > 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> > >> *™* > > -- *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> *™*
