Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Wasabi – Simple storage solution

wasabi.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 164 posts

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#111

Post by dylz »

jbkkd wrote: post #106
tomovo wrote: post #70

Wouldn't it be funny if this was just a market test/exercise, using actual S3 as a backend, just to see if it gets any traction before building own HW/SW solution?

Their IP addresses belong to a company named PSI net: ~ dig +short console.wasabisys.com 38.27.106.13 38.27.106.12 38.27.106.11 NetRange: 38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255 CIDR: 38.0.0.0/8 NetName: COGENT-A NetHandle: NET-38-0-0-0-1 Parent: () NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: AS174 Organization: PSINet, Inc. (PSI) RegDate: 1991-04-16 Updated: 2011-05-20 Comment: Reassignment information for this block can be found at Com…

Cogent/Psinet are a transit provider.

Servers look like they're in VA-US.

In this case Cogent on the IP space is roughly equivalent to seeing Comcast or something on IP space whois.

The end-user is:

    network:IP-Network:38.27.106.0/24
    network:Org-Name:Bluearchive, Inc
    network:Street-Address:44060 Digital Loudoun Plaza
    network:City:Ashburn
    network:State:VA
    network:Country:US
    network:Postal-Code:20147

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#114

Post by WasabiRichard »

Waterluvian wrote: post #92

Am I doing the math wrong or is this $4/mo for me to dump 1TB of copies of my family albums and whatnot into for long term cold storage?

Im a product manager at Wasabi and your math is accurate!

Of note we are not cold storage: you can get your data back instantly whenever you want it.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#116

Post by mbleigh »

I'm surprised the FAQ doesn't answer the question that immediately came to mind: why should I risk my data with an untested startup when the only benefit is claimed performance/price?

Or my second question: wait, doesn't this sound an awful lot like Pied Piper's product from the newest season of Silicon Valley?

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#117

Post by cthalupa »

jrs95 wrote: post #73
tomovo wrote: post #70

Wouldn't it be funny if this was just a market test/exercise, using actual S3 as a backend, just to see if it gets any traction before building own HW/SW solution?

Kind of like how most wasabi in the U.S. isn't really wasabi, it's just horseradish? lol

Not just in the US. Real wasabi is very expensive. Even in Japan, unless you're seeing them grate it for you at the table, it's still just green horseradish.

(Source: Posting this from Meguro-ku in Tokyo ;) )

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#118

Post by whalesalad »

mbleigh wrote: post #116

I'm surprised the FAQ doesn't answer the question that immediately came to mind: why should I risk my data with an untested startup when the only benefit is claimed performance/price? Or my second question: wait, doesn't this sound an awful lot like Pied Piper's product from the newest season of Silicon Valley?

Exactly. Performance means nothing when the company runs out of funding and goes belly up... along with all your data.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#119

Post by tw04 »

knobbytires wrote: post #34

Some quick observations: - Their performance claims are incredibly biased. Amazon S3 has far better write performance than their claims. - They claim 100% S3 compatibility but it fails a large number of API calls using Ceph’s s3-test. I didn’t dig into this too far but they do claim “No need to change your S3-compatible application” so changing my endpoint + credentials should have worked. To their credit - PUT, GET…

>but a pure S3 endpoint will never take substantial marketshare away from AWS.

Perhaps in the "dev/ops" world, but S3 as a standalone repository could absolutely work for most enterprises and quite frankly soho users as a backup target. That being said, I have almost no faith this will survive and as such wouldn't trust it with my backups.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

#120

Post by mv4 »

WasabiRichard wrote: post #77
mv4 wrote: post #71

I am curious what their strategy is. Cloud storage by itself (just like delivery) is a commodity, and if you look at the pricing trends per GB, it's a race to the bottom (will be interesting to see which CDN decides to become "free" first). So, without a suite of offerings a la AWS - how will they make money in this market?

This is Richard: a product manager with Wasabi We agree with you exactly: storage should be a commodity. The goal of making something like Wasabi is to be able to do cloud storage of datasets that were too large to be financially feasible before. Allowing data on the Petabyte and Exabyte scale to be easily accessible between institutions could be revolutionary and we are excited to be on the forefront.

Thank you.
Post reply on HN