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标 题: AWS is taking over the world.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 8 18:51:52 2015, 美东)
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-snowball-vacuums-up-data-
Amazon has made it fast, easy, and cheap for big companies to move all of
their data into Amazon's cloud so they can close down their in-house data
centers.
Amazon is doing this with a creative new piece of hardware — a "box," if
you will — called Snowball.
Companies rent the Snowball box from Amazon for as little as $200.
After the box is plugged in and the security is configured, it can vacuum
ungodly amounts of data from a customer's data center into Amazon's cloud in
a matter of hours or days instead of months or longer.
Amazon believes the turbo-charged pathway to its cloud will be a game
changer. For instance, one company once came to Amazon wanting to move a
bunch of apps and data into Amazon's Amazon Web Services cloud, but it
couldn't.
It told the AWS team that "If we fully saturate our network, it would take
us 8.5 years and want to shut our data center down faster than that," Amazon
's cloud chief, Andy Jassy, told the crowd.
Big corporations are increasingly looking to cloud services as alternatives
to maintaining expensive in-house data centers.
Capital One is in the process of closing down five of its eight data centers
because it's moving its apps and tech into AWS, Capital One Chief
Information Officer Rob Alexander told attendees. General Electric intends
to move over 60% of the global workload into AWS, closing 30 of its 34 data
centers.
And some companies, like Yamaha America are going all in with Amazon,
closing all of their data centers altogether, saving $500,000 a year in the
process.
This should worry the big IT vendors that sell severs, networking, storage,
and other hardware, like Cisco, HP, and IBM. Like all big cloud companies,
Amazon builds much of its own data-center hardware. Meanwhile, enterprises
are saving money by not buying and maintaining all that gear themselves. | a********8
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