October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 51m
English
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Chapter 1. The Evolution of Storage
In 2011, OpenStack Object Storage, code-named Swift, was launched as an inaugural project within the OpenStack cloud computing project. OpenStack Swift was a thoughtful and creative response to the unprecedented and precipitous growth in data. It introduced the world to an open-source storage system proven to run at extremely large scale.
The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Just as the growth in online data was taking off, software-defined storage (SDS) with systems such as Swift was being developed. Object storage and SDS are logical next steps in the evolution of storage.
But before getting into Swift (in Chapter 2), we should examine the boom in unstructured data, its particular storage requirements, and how storage has evolved to include object storage and SDS. We will also explain how object storage compares to the more familiar block and file storage.
Storage Needs for Today’s Data
In this era of connected devices, demands on storage systems are increasing exponentially. Users are producing and consuming more data than ever, with social media, online video, user-uploaded content, gaming, and Software-as-a-Service applications all contributing to the vast need for easily accessible storage systems that can grow without bounds. A wide spectrum of companies and institutions are facing greater and greater storage demands. In the geological and life sciences, machine-generated data is much more valuable when it is accessible. Video ...
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