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We don't use public cloud. We're hosted on dedicated hardware for a number of reasons. While we're not opposed to commercial solutions, we strongly prefer ope

We don't use public cloud. We're hosted on dedicated hardware for a number of reasons. While we're not opposed to commercial solutions, we strongly prefer open source solutions for obvious reasons (like, this ClusterHQ situation).

colanderman 10y ago
You don't have to. We provide iSCSI or FC access points in your private datacenter.
- mst 10y ago
  Is the hardware storing the data in-datacentre too? I think that was the key thing.
  - colanderman 10y ago
    We (ClearSky) store your data off-site (except a small cache), but provide performance as if the data were on-site.
    - cryptarch 10y ago
      So it's stored on a public cloud?
      - colanderman 10y ago
        Yes.
    - chrissnell 10y ago
      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.
      - colanderman 10y ago
        Check out this report if you don't believe me: http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-takes-primary-storage-to-the-cloud 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.
        chrissnell 10y ago
        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.
        colanderman 10y ago
        Technical details are here [1], though if entering a name and e-mail in a form is off-putting to you, I'm not sure anything could convince you to take the step of switching enterprise storage vendors. Aside, I can't express how validating it is how much you (and others, given the downvotes) disbelieve me. It makes me quite proud to have helped develop a service considered so impossible that it is written off as black magic. It does make it hard to market the damn thing though ;) [1] http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-global-storage-network-architecture-white-paper http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-global-storage-network-...
        jlgaddis 10y ago
        Wow. First, this is a technical audience. Plenty (most?) of us couldn't give a shit about what marketing says. I believe about half of what comes out of the mouths of sales/marketing folks -- for good reason. We don't care what Gardner or some firm you paid to write up a report says. Personally, I have a real dislike of sales/marketing folks and I will avoid them at all costs... so, no, I don't want to give you my name or e-mail address. I don't want your people calling me, interrupting real work. I don't want to view your webinar. I want to look at the technical details -- the facts -- and decide for myself and then, quite possibly, completely forget I ever heard about your company and go about my day. Last, don't fool yourself. The downvotes aren't "validation" -- at all -- but, hey, go on living in your fantasy world. If it really was as awesome as you seem to think it is, it wouldn't be hard to market. To the contrary, the damn thing would sell itself and you wouldn't even need a marketing department.
    - monkeywork 10y ago
      So you are essentially doing AWS Storage Gateway then? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/GettingStarted.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/G...
      - colanderman 10y ago
        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.

colanderman 10y ago

You don't have to. We provide iSCSI or FC access points in your private datacenter.

mst 10y ago
Is the hardware storing the data in-datacentre too? I think that was the key thing.
- colanderman 10y ago
  We (ClearSky) store your data off-site (except a small cache), but provide performance as if the data were on-site.
  - cryptarch 10y ago
    So it's stored on a public cloud?
    - colanderman 10y ago
      Yes.
  - chrissnell 10y ago
    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.
    - colanderman 10y ago
      Check out this report if you don't believe me: http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-takes-primary-storage-to-the-cloud 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.
      - chrissnell 10y ago
        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.
        colanderman 10y ago
        Technical details are here [1], though if entering a name and e-mail in a form is off-putting to you, I'm not sure anything could convince you to take the step of switching enterprise storage vendors. Aside, I can't express how validating it is how much you (and others, given the downvotes) disbelieve me. It makes me quite proud to have helped develop a service considered so impossible that it is written off as black magic. It does make it hard to market the damn thing though ;) [1] http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-global-storage-network-architecture-white-paper http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-global-storage-network-...
        jlgaddis 10y ago
        Wow. First, this is a technical audience. Plenty (most?) of us couldn't give a shit about what marketing says. I believe about half of what comes out of the mouths of sales/marketing folks -- for good reason. We don't care what Gardner or some firm you paid to write up a report says. Personally, I have a real dislike of sales/marketing folks and I will avoid them at all costs... so, no, I don't want to give you my name or e-mail address. I don't want your people calling me, interrupting real work. I don't want to view your webinar. I want to look at the technical details -- the facts -- and decide for myself and then, quite possibly, completely forget I ever heard about your company and go about my day. Last, don't fool yourself. The downvotes aren't "validation" -- at all -- but, hey, go on living in your fantasy world. If it really was as awesome as you seem to think it is, it wouldn't be hard to market. To the contrary, the damn thing would sell itself and you wouldn't even need a marketing department.
  - monkeywork 10y ago
    So you are essentially doing AWS Storage Gateway then? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/GettingStarted.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/G...
    - colanderman 10y ago
      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.