Amazon's new cloud based Data storage service: Amazon Glacier

Amazon's new cloud based Data storage service: Amazon Glacier

Businesses are created or updated based on the usage data collected over a lifetime. And in its lifetime business can create Terabytes of data. The storage of this tons of data can be a nightmare for you at some stage. Today many of the businnesses are going the cloud way. According to a 2011 poll, 84 percent of businesses reported a noticeable savings with cloud computing. On an average, that savings was about 21 percent annually. With the growth of businesses turing to Cloud storage in near time, Amazon's Glacier cloud service can turn out to be best and low cost option for you, if your business requires Data storage or its archiving.

Amazon recently released its new innovative service Glacier. Glacier will revolutionalize the cloud storage with the following benefits:-

1. Extremely low-cost:- Business houses or companies pay hefty amount for the developing and maintaining varioues Data archiving solutions apart from the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance etc. They need to manage the unexpected growth and capacity ratio as well. Sometimes the money is wasted due to this. With Amazon Glacier, you pay only for what you use. Amazon Glacier changes the way how you archive your data and its backup as you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, and can scale your usage up or down as needed, while AWS handles all of the operational heavy lifting required to do data retention well.

2. Secure Storage/Transfer:- This service provides highly secure storage and transfer of data. Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys. You can also control access to your data using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM enables organizations with multiple employees to create and manage multiple users under a single AWS account and to set resource-based access policies.

3. Durable:- Amazon's Glacier is designed in such a way that it provides annual durability of 99.9999 for any business archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. To increase durability, Amazon Glacier synchronously stores your data across multiple facilities
before returning SUCCESS on uploading archives. Unlike traditional systems which can require laborious data verification and manual repair, Glacier performs regular, systematic data integrity checks and is built to be automatically self-healing.

4. Flexible:– Amazon Glacier automatically scales to meet your growing and often unpredictable storage requirements. There is no limit to the amount of data you can store in the service. Whether you’re storing petabytes or gigabytes, Glacier automatically scales your storage up or down as needed. In addition, you can choose to store your data in the Amazon Glacier Region that meets your regulatory, throughput, and geographic redundancy criteria.

5. Simple:– It only takes a few clicks in the AWS Management Console to set up Amazon Glacier and then you can upload any amount of data you choose. Traditional storage hardware is only supported for a limited number of years. With Amazon Glacier, customers no longer need to manage the expensive, time-consuming, and risky hardware and storage media migrations that are inevitable when your data retention period exceeds the lifetime of your storage hardware. Data uploaded to Amazon Glacier remains safely stored for as long as it is needed with no additional effort from customers.

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to traditional storage options.You can explore more at Amazon for pricing and integration details.

Switching a job- Here are few tips and tricks

Switching a job- Here are few tips and tricks


Mr 'Jobsearcher' is working in good "Startup" company, as of now, from last 7 long years, but the story is different for him now. He has over-grown (or say budget constraint of startup) in this company  and it seems, he is on the verge of losing his job. So, he started preparing for job change and that too, when he is down with an entire company’s implosion.You  find yourself amidst all sorts of perplexion of 'To DO' and 'Not To Do'. You are filled with with anguish, anger, depression and blah-blah, but at last u need to come out of the vex that engulfs your emotions. So I think Mr 'Jobsearcher' should start afresh with revitalized energy leavind behind the veils of confusion.
After long analysis, I find that the job search today is not what it was 5-6 years ago. Hers's a summary of what you need to do, if you think you are losing your job.

1. Review your resume: The very first thing, you need to do is to create a recreate ingeniously an efficacious resume which should clearly mention your dexterity and expertise. Try to co-relate your experience with current technologies in demand. YOur resume should hint at your conversence with latest technology even if you have not worked on it .There are many websites available online where you can get tips to create unbeatable resumes. You can also get help from some good consultant if possible.

2. Remember your old friends/colleagues: You should get in contact with all your friends and known ones. You should let them know that you are looking for job change desperately. Post your resume to all your friends and call them personally as well.

3. Online Social Networking: You should update your profile on social networking websites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Be active on these websites and use these as the platforms for your self-marketing and profile promotions. In today's era, in my view, profile on LinkedIn is the most lethal weapon in job search market. 7 years ago, no body used social mediaut today no one can deny ithe influnce it can bring about .Push some posts showing your interests/expertise on Facebook and twitter. Social media has no limits, how you can use it. Your linked profile is your showcasing online. Showcase how you look, put up a good professional photograph of  yours on LinkedIn. Ask your colleagues, bosses and clients to put recommendations for you on LinkedIn. Join some good groups of your interests on LinkedIn and post your views there as well.

4. Brush up with all the skills that you have achieved all these years and start honing them.Get in touch wit the latest technology and its practical applicability. You should be well prepared to answer all the questions you think can be asked fromyour profile details. You should know every detail of your resume or profile. Be true to yourself and self analyse your strengths and weaknesses.

5. A task daily: You should do at-least one single task daily to be active online or offline. Task can be anything like saying "Hi" on G talk/Facebook to you old colleague or friend. It can be writing answers to group queries or writing a blog. Search for some good job consultants and be in contact with them.

6. Own a website or blog: I think this is most important and required thing you should do in present times. Create your website or blog to showcase your experience and skills. Create an influential profile of yours on your blog. Start writing a post  every week if not daily. You should put a link to your blog or website on your resume, profile on job search websites, LinkedIn, Facebook or twitter account.

The job search today has changed a lot, but you have to understand, what it requires to get the desired job.