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We (ClearSky) store your data off-site (except a small cache), but provide performance as if the data were on-site.
So it's stored on a public cloud?
Yes.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
We (ClearSky) store your data off-site (except a small cache), but provide performance as if the data were on-site.
So you are essentially doing AWS Storage Gateway then? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/G...
No. ClearSky provides several features that Storage Gateway does not:
* ClearSky has a dedicated private network to every customer ensuring low latency.
* ClearSky fully manages disaster recovery; you lose no data if your datacenter is destroyed.
* ClearSky provides transparent instantaneous data mobility: you can move volumes to any other data center in a matter of seconds.
* ClearSky provides and manages the edge cache.
All of the above must be provided by the customer with Amazon's offering.
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#163It would be interesting to hear what are the alternatives now to what they were trying to do with [flocker](https://clusterhq.com/flocker/introduction/).
The post seems to make the point other alternatives came up that removed their competitive advantage. Anyone here either using flocker or the other alternatives?
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Check out the startup I work for, ClearSky Data [1]. We provide cloud-hosted block storage with SAN-level performance to your private datacenter and enterprise-grade durability and availability at a competitive price. I'd be glad to answer any questions you have (I'm an engineer) or point you to someone who can. [1] http://www.clearskydata.com/
Given the topic you are posting on, my question would be what happens if ClearSky goes out of business? Potentially any file system hosted on your storage would just disappear, right? (And the DR capability too, if I am reading your website correctly.) I don't mean to be negative but I'm having some trouble seeing how the ClearSky feature set justifies assuming what looks like an existential risk to business-critical…
This is a valid concern and I am the wrong person to answer it (not being on the business side of things) but I can get you in touch with someone who can.
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Counter argument: if you don't rely on PaaS/SaaS, it'll take you 3-4x to launch. So, rely on them, but be ready to switch. A few bad things like this shouldn't take away from how services enable rapid development and iteration of ideas.
Why would it take you 3-4x longer to launch? Running your own servers in the cloud is not that hard. You can actually save time by not being restricted by the PaaS. I.e. if you have special needs, and you will, you can go in and hack the software.
>>Running your own servers in the cloud is not that hard
For small side projects, sure. But if you run your own servers, that means you're also responsible for their configuration, backups, maintenance, upgrades, etc.
That's why the "Dev Ops" people exist in many software companies. And they are not exactly cheap.
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I don't believe you. There's no way you're coming even close to local disk performance with an off-prem solution. Feel free to prove me wrong but I don't think that this is a reasonable solution for backing storage for a database.
Check out this report if you don't believe me: http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-takes-primary-storage-t... Several members of our team were core developers of EqualLogic (pre-Dell buyout). We have significant investment from Akamai. I promise you this is not snake oil.
Check out this report? A link to a marketing data collection form? Come on. Link me to the PDF. Let's see the technical details of exactly how your solution is built out.
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#167A little bit more info on why the outfit failed would have been nice.
They probably just ran out of money or a key relationship dried up causing their runway to become impossibly short.
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#168It seems a little odd to do this 3 days before Christmas. Holiday depression is already a real problem, and making people unemployed a few days before the holiday sounds like a bad thing. And it's a terrible time to be job hunting. Why not hold on a few more weeks, let employees enjoy the holidays and announce in mid-January when employees can actually talk to hiring managers and get some good job prospects instead o…
If the company is shutting down no matter what, keeping the employees on is essentially giving away money for no (business) reason. To do so could be construed as a violation of fiduciary duty to the shareholders.
Alternately, who says they have the money to make payroll either way? Keeping them employed when you know there is no money to pay them would be even worse. It would leave them just as unpaid, but also even more bitter about it.
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No matter how many times you say that this situation is "literally the definition of debt" you're still not going to the legal definition of debt so that it applies here. Equity is not debt, they do both until eventually owing another entity money. But in a legal sense that is not literally the definition of debt, because it is also part of equity which again isn't debt. From a practical perspective the difference is…
I have zero idea what the legal definition of debt is in the country/jurisdiction you live in. I also didn't specify what country I live in. Additionally, my first point was one of metaphorical (social) debt. Given the context and the fact I'm typing in English it ought to have been clear I was referring to the definition of debt in English. If that wasn't clear, I apologise for the confusion.
> I have zero idea what the legal definition of debt is in the country/jurisdiction you live in. I also didn't specify what country I live in.
Only definition that matters is the one in the jurisdiction this startup was in.
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#170We've been running Kubernetes (500+ containers) in production for over a year now. I believe (and hope) that 2017 will be the year that persistent data storage will be solved. We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB) join the rest of our apps on Kube-orchestrated infrastructure. But, we're not there yet. The options just aren't good enough. L…
Hi, I'm the executive director of CNCF (which hosts Kubernetes) and the co-author of our landscape document, which has a section on storage [0].
I'll just state the obvious that you're very much correct about stateful storage still being the most immature aspect of the Kubernetes and cloud native story, but there are definitely tons of folks working on it. And in the meantime, people are succeeding in production using last-generation solutions on bare metal or provider offerings in the cloud.
I'll make a quick pitch that if you are a cloud native end user interested in engaging with the community, please email me about joining CNCF's end user board (my email is in my profile). We just dropped the price from $50 K to $4.5 K, and it now includes 5 tickets to CloudNativeCon/KubeCon ($1.7 K and 2 tickets for startups).