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How much is storage? zfs has some utility for small filesystems (less than 1TB) for backups and reliability, but it's real strength is in storage consolidation.
by ssmoot 16y ago
How much is storage? zfs has some utility for small filesystems (less than 1TB) for backups and reliability, but it's real strength is in storage consolidation.
The problem with cloud storage so far is that it can easily cost 10X the price of local storage.
IOW, I can build a ZFS cluster on Nexenta for say $25K (without support, but if you're considering this you should really consider the support unless you're a hard-core OpenSolaris guru) for 44TB of redundant, replicated storage.
That's a one-time cost of ~$0.60 per GB, and it can be amortized over a 3 year lease.
Just try and find pricing for Rackspace's uNAS service. ;-) We were quoted $2 per GB. Over three times the price. Wait, nevermind, that's MONTHLY and doesn't include transfer. So that's... $3.2M!
$3.2M vs $25K.
But make it fair and add the support. Also, go with a packaged Nexenta solution from Areasys. Hire a full-time SAN administrator. You're still looking at less than $500K to lease it vs $3.2M to host it.
Course, cloud storage is evolving very quickly, so this can and will change. Will it be cheaper? Possibly. Especially for smaller organizations without the time, skill or budget to purchase and manage their own in the short-term. Are we there yet?
- skorgu 16y agoApologies for formatting: Computing resources CHF EUR GBP USD Unit CPU 0.0250 0.0175 0.0150 0.0225 Core-GHz/hou RAM 0.0325 0.0228 0.0195 0.0293 GB/hour Storage 0.2000 0.1400 0.1200 0.1800 GB/per month So $0.1800/GB/Month. Source: http://cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules http://cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules So in the range of S3 storage which is "First 50 TB / Month of Storage Used $0.150 per GB" with a reduction to $0.100 per GB for reduced-redundancy. Source: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing EBS is $0.10 per allocated GB per month. Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
- cloudsigma 16y agoAll our pricing is available at http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules . Best wishes, CloudSigma
- cloudsigma 16y agoThanks for the full feedback. Hybrid Web Cluster is offering a PaaS product sat on top of our pure IaaS offering. We have an open software and networking layer which allows customers such as Hybrid Web Cluster to build quite powerful set-ups on top of our infrastructure layer. I'll leave them to comment on their expected pricing and model. In terms of pricing from CloudSigma, our cost to customers is $0.18 per GB of usable space. All our resources are unbundled so you purchase them in transparent units independently unlike other IaaS platforms. That eliminates a lot of waste. The storage is fully persistent, high performance storage in RAID6. We use top end disks and hardware RAID controller cards to deliver high performance storage for users. Bear in mind that that price: - is for one month only, discounts up to 45% apply for subscriptions up to 3 years - it includes all maintenance and hardware maintenance - 256bit AES encryption is available at the hypervisor level - it includes all support - you get a 100% SLA with generous compensation at x50 - you can scale effortlessly - your data is being stored in a high availability, high security data centre in Zurich, Switzerland (with all the reliability and legal gains that entails) - there is a cash flow benefit to not paying everything upfront Thanks once again for the breakdown. Best wishes, CloudSigma