Crane Consulting

I have worked in the cloud industry for several years, involving 2 separate acquisitions and the launch of countless products. After having worked alongside these industry leading companies I launched a consulting business to focus my efforts on bringing non-technical business to the forefront of innovations within the cloud technological sphere. Contact me today to see these innovations can help you revolutionize your business!

Why bother with the cloud? My company already works!

Long ago many years past, I heard a line that has stuck with me to this day:

“These days, every company is a tech company”

What was true then, is even more true now. Technology in all of it’s shapes and forms has transformed the world we live in today more so than in any other point in history. It is why we are called the “Information age”. There exists, for every company large and small, a tool to make their business more efficient and easier to run.

The difficulty then lies in filtering the unnecessary bells and whistles from the tools that can actually help. The challenge I can solve is to sieve out what can actually be useful for your business, and to create a custom solution that is tailored to your challenges.

This is what my service is, to know with a trained eye what can actually be helpful to your business. And to help create a customized solution tailored to your specific needs.

Past experiences

Global rollout of 20+ PB of NVME block storage

In the summer of 2021 I along with a small team of engineers at Linode (recently acquired by Akamai) began working on a project to transfer our enormous block storage capacity onto newer, faster hardware. All told, the size of the transferred data amounted to over 20+ petabytes of data. To put that into perspective that is nearly the entire size of the Library of Congress (22 PB as of 2022)

To put that into relatable context, if one were to use the fastest internet option available from most providers (1 gigabit) it would take just over 5 years of constant transfer at the highest speed to move all of that data. Factor into that failure recovery and safety mechanisms to ensure no data is lost, and the figure rises even higher.

Our team focused on creating a robust and failure redundant mechanism to ensure that customer data was transferred over as safely as possible. We were able to duplicate and parallelize our process so that we effectively quadrupled our throughput for data. In the end, we successfully migrated over all of the data in under 2 months without a single piece of lost data.