Cloud Slam '09 - Cloud Computing Conference

Cloud storage is one of the fastest-growing segments in the storage industry due to its potential for lowering costs, removing the burden of managing and protecting data, and ultimately creating a new “virtual” tier of online storage. It has given rise to multiple innovative architectures, and could well be a harbinger of larger nearline storage trends. In this talk, we'll look at cloud storage architecture across multiple cloud providers, offering a detailed look at the architectural trends and innovations in cloud storage platforms, discussing how the various architectures differ from what end users have in their own data centers. We will also discuss the rise of some of the biggest breakthroughs in cloud storage, integrated content-aware compression and dedupe, which are ways of drastically reducing the space taken to store data, and also to move it across the WAN. The cloud offerings we will take a look at will be from Amazon AWS, Nirvanix, Microsoft, IBM, EMC and others. Some t