My Cloud Computing Reflections

Week 5: Object storage

Transcript:

Welcome to my cloud computing reflections. My name is Charles Roberts. This is the fifth week where I listen to a new podcast and go over what new topics I learned, how it challenges my initial thoughts or beliefs, and how it applies to my personal or professional life

This week, I listen to episode 725 of the cloud cast titled the economics and beyond object storage with special guest Jon toor. In this episode, toor talks about the history and evolution of object storage, the rise of enterprise storage, and the changing economics of cloud storage. Toor started his career as a producer of hard drives, before moving towards creating and selling his start-up businesses. Each business he makes involves computer storage in some way. I would say that I learned some new aspects of cloud storage.

I learned that object storage is the best way to secure your data. Toor states that File storage was the old way of storing data until advances in technology lead the way for object storage. Unlike File storage, Object storage has better cloud capabilities and better mutable data. This means clients will be exposed too little to no ransomware for how immutable it is. Wherever I used my student emails back when I was in college, it never crossed my mind as to why ransomware is not a big threat considering the consequences. That is because ransomware requires social engineering to reach its targets (Calder, p. 18).

I also learned that Object storage is now more cost effective than the past decade. Businesses should consider if their workload can easily run on the cloud, they have a choice to potentially cut their cost in physical computer infrastructure. When they do, that business will soon learn they don’t need to drastically change their software, and let their applications run close to the data. It begs the question: If it is so effective, why isn’t every business utilizing object storage? Perhaps due to certain applications not being compatible with the cloud, or perhaps businesses are still catching up with the rapid advances in technology

To close out this podcast, this cloud cast podcast provides a well detailed explanation on how object storage works, why it is important, and what benefits it gives to both start-up businesses, and enterprises. I understand why some business won’t make a full migration to the cloud. Storing data on premises means you won’t need to rely on other enterprises to protect yours. If I were to create a start up, I would establish a cloud service, and then find method of implementing a hybrid service once the business takes off.

That’s all for now, talk to you soon, and thank you. Podcast out.

References:

CALDER, A. (2021). ABOUT RANSOMWARE. In The Ransomware Threat Landscape: Prepare for, recognise and survive ransomware attacks (pp. 15–26). IT Governance Publishing.