So what’s all this about Veeam, Tiger Bridge, and Backblaze B2? Historically, if you’ve been using Veeam from the cheap seats, it’s been difficult to effectively leverage object storage to use as a repository for longer term data storage. They’re looking to roll this out in 2020 some time. Upgrading from 10Gbase-T to 10GbE SFP+ optical networking.Updating the power supply units, perhaps moving to one unit.Upgrade the CPU and consider using an AMD CPU.We spoke briefly about what Pod 7.0 would look like, and it’s going to be a “little bit faster”, with the following enhancements planned: And it doesn’t look like they can produce enough Flash to cope with that increase in requirements at this stage. Nonetheless, the challenge isn’t just performance, it’s also the fact that people are needing more and more capacity to store their stuff. That said, they have seen the main HDD manufacturers starting to hit a wall in terms of the capacity per drive that they can deliver.
Andy pointed out that, with around 900PB under management, Flash still didn’t look like the most economical medium for this kind of storage task. I asked to Yev and Andy about where they saw the pod heading, and whether they thought there was room for Flash in the picture. That’s a long time for something to be around (and successful) in a market like cloud storage. The Backblaze Storage Pod (currently version 6) recently turned 10 years old. The Storage Pod recently turned ten years old, and I was lucky enough to have the chance to chat with Yev Pusin and Andy Klein about that news and some of the stuff they’re doing with B2, Tiger Technology, and Veeam. And not just because of their recent expansion into Europe. Backblaze has been on my mind a lot lately.
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