w**z
发帖数: 8232 | 1 http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-snowball-vacuums-up-data-
Amazon has made it fast, easy, and cheap for big companies to move all of
their data into Amazon's cloud so they can close down their in-house data
centers.
Amazon is doing this with a creative new piece of hardware — a "box," if
you will — called Snowball.
Companies rent the Snowball box from Amazon for as little as $200.
After the box is plugged in and the security is configured, it can vacuum
ungodly amounts of data from a customer's data center into Amazon's cloud in
a matter of hours or days instead of months or longer.
Amazon believes the turbo-charged pathway to its cloud will be a game
changer. For instance, one company once came to Amazon wanting to move a
bunch of apps and data into Amazon's Amazon Web Services cloud, but it
couldn't.
It told the AWS team that "If we fully saturate our network, it would take
us 8.5 years and want to shut our data center down faster than that," Amazon
's cloud chief, Andy Jassy, told the crowd.
Big corporations are increasingly looking to cloud services as alternatives
to maintaining expensive in-house data centers.
Capital One is in the process of closing down five of its eight data centers
because it's moving its apps and tech into AWS, Capital One Chief
Information Officer Rob Alexander told attendees. General Electric intends
to move over 60% of the global workload into AWS, closing 30 of its 34 data
centers.
And some companies, like Yamaha America are going all in with Amazon,
closing all of their data centers altogether, saving $500,000 a year in the
process.
This should worry the big IT vendors that sell severs, networking, storage,
and other hardware, like Cisco, HP, and IBM. Like all big cloud companies,
Amazon builds much of its own data-center hardware. Meanwhile, enterprises
are saving money by not buying and maintaining all that gear themselves. | x*******1
发帖数: 28835 | | x*******1
发帖数: 28835 | 3 这个比以前做direct connect通过ISP运营商，方便多了。 而且再不会把别人盒子送
到竞争对手手上了。 估计很快MS和google就要订购2个，反向工程。 | x*******1
发帖数: 28835 | | c*********e
发帖数: 16335 | 5 nm,前段不是刚down掉一次吗？如果down掉的时候，客户需要这个网站做生意，那就热
闹了。
aws脸皮真是厚，down掉不是一次2次了，简直就是年经。每年用户都要
提心吊胆地等待年经的到来。欧也
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【在 w**z 的大作中提到】
: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-snowball-vacuums-up-data-
: Amazon has made it fast, easy, and cheap for big companies to move all of
: their data into Amazon's cloud so they can close down their in-house data
: centers.
: Amazon is doing this with a creative new piece of hardware — a "box," if
: you will — called Snowball.
: Companies rent the Snowball box from Amazon for as little as $200.
: After the box is plugged in and the security is configured, it can vacuum
: ungodly amounts of data from a customer's data center into Amazon's cloud in
: a matter of hours or days instead of months or longer.
| w**z
发帖数: 8232 | 6 基本可以肯定aws 比 99.99% 的公司自己的DC 要可靠。
【在 c*********e 的大作中提到】
: nm,前段不是刚down掉一次吗？如果down掉的时候，客户需要这个网站做生意，那就热
: 闹了。
: aws脸皮真是厚，down掉不是一次2次了，简直就是年经。每年用户都要
: 提心吊胆地等待年经的到来。欧也
:
: in
| w**z
发帖数: 8232 | 7 估计大公司会亲自派人把它押送到Amazon那里。
【在 x*******1 的大作中提到】
: 这个比以前做direct connect通过ISP运营商，方便多了。 而且再不会把别人盒子送
: 到竞争对手手上了。 估计很快MS和google就要订购2个，反向工程。
| c*********e
发帖数: 16335 | 8 aws也就是需要distributed system的公司需要它。不需要distributed system的公司
，完全可以自己公司里搭个data center,或者去租个data center.
【在 w**z 的大作中提到】
: 基本可以肯定aws 比 99.99% 的公司自己的DC 要可靠。
| c*********e
发帖数: 16335 | 9 lol
话说日本最近卖出的机器人pepper,程序员已经给它写好了hack 程序。一旦有新品问世
，就会有好事者恶搞新产品，这也是对新产品的考验。
【在 w**z 的大作中提到】
: 估计大公司会亲自派人把它押送到Amazon那里。
| q*c
发帖数: 9453 | 10 这东西难道不是一个巨型硬盘盒 加上 一个 crawler ?
【在 w**z 的大作中提到】
: 估计大公司会亲自派人把它押送到Amazon那里。
| w***g
发帖数: 5958 | 11 应该有dedupe和delta encoding之类的东西吧，不然也太土了。
【在 q*c 的大作中提到】
: 这东西难道不是一个巨型硬盘盒 加上 一个 crawler ?
| g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 12 估计是 zip加分块并行上传，走 UDP. 有 Aspera之类的产品做类似工作。
【在 q*c 的大作中提到】
: 这东西难道不是一个巨型硬盘盒 加上 一个 crawler ?
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