{"id":7688,"date":"2013-06-04T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T12:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jun\/04\/the-case-for-block-level-cloud-storage\/"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T12:42:36","slug":"the-case-for-block-level-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-case-for-block-level-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for block-level cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before&nbsp;block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage &ndash; for server data, for example &ndash; they&rsquo;d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if the capacity and compute power far exceeded their needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organizations now buy storage in &#8220;blocks&#8221; to exactly fit their needs, regardless of the size of their cloud server.&nbsp;The old way, when after you bought a server you would need to upgrade the entire system if you wanted to add more hard drive space, is over.&nbsp;Now you can just buy space as you go.<\/p>\n<p>But&nbsp;which type of block storage&nbsp;is best for your business? That depends on what type of data you need to store and how frequently and easily you need to access that data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are two options for cloud block storage depending on what type of information you need to store. Standard &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before&nbsp;block storage in the cloud, when businesses needed to provision large amounts of storage &ndash; for server data, for example &ndash; they&rsquo;d need to requisition and pay for huge server instances, even if the capacity and compute power&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}