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<font face="sans-serif">I myself use some aspect of this - JungleDisk
backup make use of Amazon S3 for storage - I have my own Amazon S3
bucket for this. JungleDisk is also fully open-source so even if the
company goes under, the source code is there for anyone (unlikely
though as they've recently been bought by Rackspace)<br>
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Dropdisk is another one that also use S3 - although for this one I only
use it as a "flash drive" albiet an internet based one - I do not use
it as a backup because it goes onto THEIR S3 bucket, not your own.<br>
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There are quite a number of websites that make use of
cloud-computing...Twitter is one for example (I know they make use of
S3...no idea if this now include EC2 or not).<br>
<br>
Ben - since you're very interested in this sort of thing too, what are
you doing with it? (either personally or any public projects from IBM
(those that is in public knowledge obviously :))<br>
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<pre wrap="">A lot of people in the IT world are talking about what is known as
"cloud computing" in 2009.
To quote Ian Hughes: "People, normal people, do not want to run
servers, patch things, have kit sitting around."
You've been hearing about grid computing, on-demand services, etc.,
they're happening. Here are some links about cloud computing from a
quick Google to get you started:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.gartner.com/david_cearley/2008/10/14/gartner%E2%80%99s-top-10-strategic-technologies-for-2009/">http://blogs.gartner.com/david_cearley/2008/10/14/gartner%E2%80%99s-top-10-strategic-technologies-for-2009/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/half-of-enterprises-see-cloud-presence-by-2010/">http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/half-of-enterprises-see-cloud-presence-by-2010/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Can-Sun-Bring-Back-Its-Lustre-Through-Cloud-Computing/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Can-Sun-Bring-Back-Its-Lustre-Through-Cloud-Computing/</a>
Ben
2009/1/2 Joseph Gwynne-Jones <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mailinglist@gwallgofi.com"><mailinglist@gwallgofi.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">The daft thing is...the majority of what people use them for is basically
just as a network drive.
It's much much easier and quicker just to buy an external HDD with a network
port. It's what I do. It's also much more power efficient and have an
instant-on boot up time therefore making it more worthwhile just turning
them off when not in use. It's not a good use of a old PC...frankly I think
it's better to have them recycled rather than them sucking up a lot of
power.
As for backup's - I use JungleDisk and store them on Amazon S3 (currently
this backup cost me 20p a month although I've not yet uploaded my
photographs yet however this probably will increase to just £2 a month or
thereabouts).
Dafydd Eveleigh wrote:
Hi All
Hope you all had an ace Christmas and looking forward to the new year.
I have notice that there seems to be a growing popularity for the
"Home Server". Of course most of these home servers are Windows Based
(Yuuk) also there are rumours that Apple Mac will be launching their
version as the Mac Conference in 2009.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/?jumpid=ex_r602_go/mediasmartserver">http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/?jumpid=ex_r602_go/mediasmartserver</a>
I just wondered how easy is it to create something similar with Linux
preferably Ubuntu?
Regards
Dy
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