This 'cloud storage' thing is going to get seriously big in 2017 The waistline of Azure's storage service continues to expand, with Microsoft upping the size of the Binary Large Objects it can define. Redmond's cloud can now support BLOBs of 4.77 terabytes, up from the previous 195 gigabytes. Block sizes are also up, from four megabytes to 100. And you can commit 50,000 blocks to a single …
Not always - not everybody can have the resources for RAID5/50/6/60. And there are other storage technologies that can be used in lieu of RAID5/50/6/60.
Data storage as well as data retention is going to be the biggest headache going forward for a lot of sysadmins.
I have the feeling that LTO will be making a comeback.
"Not always - not everybody can have the resources for RAID5/50/6/60"
If you can't afford 1 or 2 extra disks, then your problem is probably resources / budget not strategy.
"And there are other storage technologies that can be used in lieu of RAID5/50/6/60."
Not that are more efficient with the same level of protection. Generally the alternative is multiple copies of the data.
"I have the feeling that LTO will be making a comeback."
Cloud based solutions like StorSimple are more likely the future imo...
Any business? What about, say, a big online retailer? There's one beginning with A that might disagree. Or that large search engine beginning with G.
The old ways are the best, aren't they? Young people today, they don't know they're born, what with their tattoos, and their beards, and their hyperscale resilient distributed architectures. And you can't tell if they're boys or girls. And their music, it's just thump thump thump ...
Any business? What about, say, a big online retailer? There's one beginning with A that might disagree. Or that large search engine beginning with G.
You'll find that those companies won't disagree, because they're in fact the ones propping up all that 'cloud infrastructure' in the first place. Which means they're actually using it.
"Any business relying on cloud services for data storage needs to have the management fired along with the tech guys"
Anyone with such outdated views would be lucky to get a job these days.
Public cloud is by far the cheapest and simplest way for most companies to get multi regional data fault tolerance. If your data access is highly critical and you don't trust one vendor, you can always choose to use 2 or more providers...
"Isn't that Windows Cloud limited by the scalability of Windows Server?"
That's a pretty high limit. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/hyper-v/plan/plan-for-hyper-v-scalability-in-windows-server-2016
"Or is Microsoft secretly running Linux on their Cloud
They certainly run Linux on their cloud (~30% of VMs). If you mean does their cloud run on Linux then that likely would limit scalability. There are plenty of benchmarks that show that Hyper-V outperforms say KVM.
"with their Linux switches"
The SAI API is, in principle, cross-platform, defined for both Windows and Linux, but much of the vendor switch hardware is supported best, or even exclusively, in Linux. Hence why Microsoft used Linux for network hardware.
I don't believe cloud storage is for every company. Small businesses benefit from the service but large companies with IT departments will fight tooth and nail to keep their data local. Sure some of the data can go to the cloud but with security such an issue I am finding people feeling safer keeping it local.
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