>Most of our customers, if they have on-premises systems—if they're lucky—can store two objects in the same data center, which gives them four 9s. If they're really good, they may have two data centers and actually know how to replicate over two data centers, and that gives them five 9s. But eleven 9's, in terms of durability, is just unparalleled
I have a tough time taking him seriously reading this - I'm not sure if he's being intentionally ignorant or intentionally misleading.
I don't know of a single enterprise customer that doesn't have their data replicated to two datacenters, and then backed up to some other medium (tape or disk-based backup appliance) for anything business critical.
Their goal is 5-9's of UPTIME - the expectation is 100% data durability. You would get fired if you architected a solution keeping two copies of data in one datacenter.
Object storage absolutely has a place and I'm happy amazon was able to push a quasi-standard for the industry. Object storage prior to S3 was a hodge-podge of proprietary plays (EMC Centera, Bytecast, etc) and sort-of standards that nobody really used (CDMI). I just wish they did a better job of fairly representing it vs. turning every opportunity into a sales pitch spreading FUD about the alternatives.
I have a tough time taking him seriously reading this - I'm not sure if he's being intentionally ignorant or intentionally misleading.
I don't know of a single enterprise customer that doesn't have their data replicated to two datacenters, and then backed up to some other medium (tape or disk-based backup appliance) for anything business critical.
Their goal is 5-9's of UPTIME - the expectation is 100% data durability. You would get fired if you architected a solution keeping two copies of data in one datacenter.
Object storage absolutely has a place and I'm happy amazon was able to push a quasi-standard for the industry. Object storage prior to S3 was a hodge-podge of proprietary plays (EMC Centera, Bytecast, etc) and sort-of standards that nobody really used (CDMI). I just wish they did a better job of fairly representing it vs. turning every opportunity into a sales pitch spreading FUD about the alternatives.