Word of the Day: cloud seeding

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |November 16, 2017

cloud seeding Cloud seeding is a strategy for uploading large amounts of data to a cloud storage service. Transferring a sizable amount of data to the cloud can take days, weeks or even years. To help decrease transmission time, some cloud storage providers offer a seeding option in which a disk drive or other appliance is sent to the customer, who then backs up data locally and ships the drive/appliance back to the provider. The customer's data is then copied to the cloud provider's servers, "seeding" the customer's initial full backup. Once this process has been accomplished, future backups are incremental, and the customer's servers only back up blocks of data that have changed since the initial seed was completed. AWS Snowmobile's cloud seeding service transfers huge amounts of data by big rig truck. According to Amazon, the truck's shipping containers allow 100 petabytes of data to be moved a few weeks, plus transport time. In contrast, the same transfer could take more than 20 years to accomplish over a direct connect line with a 1Gbps connection. Quote of the Day "Tape provides a great means of cloud seeding. Data is dumped to tape and then shipped to the cloud storage service provider for inclusion in a massive archival library." - Jon Toigo   Trending Terms cloud backup cloud storage providers sneakernet AWS Import/Export online data backup tape backup incremental backup AWS Snowmobile   Learning Center Cloud backup strategy tips: Prepare for two-way traffic Commvault GO customers talk about cloud backup strategy, including expanding from initial use of the public cloud for data protection only. Storage disaster recovery plans must account for weather threats Storage disaster recovery plans should forecast what to do in case of weather-related emergencies, such as hurricanes. Data protection vendors fight for cloud storage title While major cloud storage service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google are ahead on price, they trail data protection vendors in areas such as disaster recovery. Five data migration approaches for cloud archiving Learn five ways to move data to a cloud archive. Data migration approaches include manual migration, seeding and cloud-integrated storage. When it comes to the role of tape, don't count it out just yet The role of tape continues to loom large in the storage and archiving strategies of enterprises as they deal with a tsunami of data. Writing for Business In a hybrid cloud, sensitive data and computing resources may be maintained in two _________ environments. a. separate b. seperate Answer   Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.