One Billion Bytes - It's Not "Big Data"

One billion bytes is not big data.  But it is a big number.  A number equal to 10^9. 

A short form for one billion is giga- in the International System of Units (SI). 

The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.

What Scale is Your Big Data

terabytes (TB) - 1000 gigabytes (10^12 bytes) - used in consumer storage

petabytes (PB) - 10^15 bytes  or 1000 TB

exabytes (EB) - 10^18 bytes or 1000 PB

Zettabytes and yottabytes are even bigger measures of memory.

AWS S3 (and Auth Methods) for Azure Folks

Amazon S3 is something akin to Azure Blob Storage. 

A quick revision of Azure Blob Storage: 

Azure Blob Storage is a general-purpose cloud storage option for cloud native workloads.  

It supports WORM operating scenarios (Write Once Read Many) aka WORM-compliant storage (which prevents data from being edited or deleted). Role based access control (RBAC) is supported as is authentication with Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory).

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a similar offering in AWS.

The services are exposed as a web service with a custom HTTP scheme known as keyed-HMAC (Hash Message Authentication Code).  A more "high level" authentication option is available via AWS IAM.

Understanding SMB 3.0 For Cloud Storage

SMB 3.0 stands for Server Message Block 3.0.  It was introduced in Windows Server 2012. Azure Files offers serverless file shares using the SMB 3.0 protocol.

Storage Technology for the Windows Hacker

Programmers have to be hardware geniuses too these days.

If your inner hardware genius needs refreshing here are some of the common terms you will come across when dealing with storage solutions. If you are in charge of hypervisor environments or cloud administration you will certainly need to know these terms as a prerequisite to any technical chats you may have with hardware vendors.

SCSI - SMALL COMPUTER System Interface (sku-zee) - the hard part to remember is the SMALL COMPUTER part of the acronym!

It is basically a set of standards to physically connect peripherals with computers. It's important to know this since many new standards are derived from SCSI.

SCSI was actually derived from another standard known as SASI where SA was "Shugart Associates", a floppy disk drive manufacturer from the 1970s).

SASI was developed around 1978 to provide a communication interface between the low level interface of a hard disk drive and a computer.

The original SCSI standard was published by ANSI in 1986.SCSI-2 was published in 1990.