{"id":3286,"date":"2012-08-24T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2336101"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:17:00","slug":"cloud-computing-amazons-offering-glacier-cold-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-amazons-offering-glacier-cold-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Amazon\u2019s Offering Glacier Cold Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has brought out a new cloud service called Glacier to freeze out the competition.<br \/>\nIt wants companies to archive and back up their data, all the stuff they have to hang on to for years and years to comply with all the rules, but don\u2019t have to access very often.<br \/>\nStoring all this pack rat data is expensive. Amazon is offering to do it for a penny a gigabyte a month, a \u201csignificant savings\u201d it figures is \u201cdisruptive.\u201d<br \/>\nAs is typical with Amazon there\u2019s no up-front fee and it\u2019s pay-as-you-go. Archives are apparently saved in \u201cvaults\u201d in Amazon\u2019s data center in Virginia via a Glacier API although the FAQ says the \u201cservice redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2336101\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has brought out a new cloud service called Glacier to freeze out the competition.<br \/>\nIt wants companies to archive and back up their data, all the stuff they have to hang on to for years and years to comply with all the rules, but don\u2019t have to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}