![]() Specifically, one pod contains one Intel Motherboard with four SATA cards plugged into it. It’s made up of a custom metal case with commodity hardware inside. What Makes a Backblaze Storage PodĪ Backblaze Storage Pod is a self-contained unit that puts storage online. Part of being open is the backblaze blog entry. Easy connectivity so you aren’t blowing the savings on Cisco switches. No, you’re thinking a quiet cloud storage business for SMB’s, maybe backup and some light file sharing, that will give you a nifty little revenue stream with annual renewals so you can see trouble coming 12 months in advance.Įnough redundancy so when something breaks you can wait until morning to fix it instead of an 0300 pajama run to the data center. ![]() You aren’t running the global financial system – what’s left of it anyway – and you don’t have a 2500 person call center hammering on a few dozen Oracle databases 7 x 24. All you want is really cheap economical, reasonably reliable storage. ![]() Storage for ascetics But let’s say you didn’t want the 3 martini lunch or the barely-clad booth babes. The rest goes for corporate jets, sales commissions, 3 martini lunches, tradeshows, sheetmetal, 2 Intel x86 mobos, obscene profits and a few pale and blinking engineers in a windowless lab who make the whole thing work. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. Imagine cloud storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. Cloud storage for $100 a terabyteīy Robin Harris on Tuesday, 1 September, 2009 Google, for instance has shown that you can build gigantic storage systems out of commodity parts and smart software.Ī more critical view comes from StorageMojo. As the IT world transitions to a cloud-based computing, the need for web-scale storage systems is going to increase. Just like Linux slowly eroded away the premiums charged by the likes of Sun, these storage giants could see their business get negatively impacted. The image below actually does a much better job of making a comparison between the Backblaze-solution and other commercial storage options.Īctually if this works, companies like NetApp and EMC could be in trouble. or a server maker such as Sun Microsystems. Now compare that to a couple of million dollars to a storage company like EMC Corp. What if I told you that you could build a petabyte sized cluster for around $120,000. The design allows anyone to build large storage clusters – from a few terabytes to over a petabytes. The company, whose primary business is selling online storage to consumers for a small monthly fee today announced that it is giving away the design of its storage cluster for anyone to use, modify and build upon. Today, I learnt about a move made by Backblaze, a small San Francisco-based online back-up service that can cause a similar disruption in the storage industry. This theory has taken its toll on the software business, thanks to the rise of the open source software platforms. It is more simply described by the Butterfly Effect. Are You Ready for Open Source Hardware?īy Om Malik | Tuesday, Septem| 6:00 AM PT | 0 commentsĪccording to the Chaos Theory, in a giant system that lots of interconnections, even the smallest effect can cause a massive impact. A change though is the Open Sourced model coming to storage appliances as GigaOm reports. Storage is typically 10% of IT load, but storage can be quite expensive from a cost and power & cooling requirement if you use an EMC or NetApp storage appliance.
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