Posts with keyword: storage

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Silo-Busting MyWord Editor is Now Public

Tue Mar 24 10:37:00 2015

The MyWord Editor and nodeStorage system are a perfect example of what I call a personal cloud application architecture.
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nodeStorage and the Personal Cloud Application Architecture

Fri Jan 23 10:26:00 2015

Dave Winer has released a new, general-purpose app backend called nodeStorage. I'm very bullish on this model.
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Pricing Bulk Cold Storage and Real Engineering

Mon Jan 5 08:26:00 2009

Image by penguincakes via Flickr James Hamilton has put together an analysis of the cost of bulk cold storage. That is, the cost of storing data, including the fully burdened cost of power in a data center, without the associated transport fees. The answer: $0.80/GB/year. Wow--that's cheap. And of course it's getting cheaper. When James did a similar analysis using numbers from two years ago, the cost was $2.50/GB/year. One thought I had as I looked at James' analysis is that we don't teach enough people to do these kinds of calculations. Not that there's anything particularly difficult about
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Velocity 08: Storage at Scale

Tue Jun 24 13:10:00 2008

Google's reliability strategy is to buy cheap hardware with no reliability features and create reliable clusters from them because no problem Google wants to solve fits on a single machine anyway. The Google File System (GFS) is a cluster file system with a familiar interface, but not POSIX compliant. Bigtable is a distributed database system. This has a custom interface, not SQL. There are 100's of instances of each of these cells scaling in to 1000's of servers and petabytes of data. in the GFS, a master manages metadata. Data is broken into chunks (64Mb) and multiple copies (typically
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