indiWiz.com » cloud http://indiwiz.com Subhash's Tech Log Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Diomede Cloud Storage http://indiwiz.com/2009/10/28/diomede-cloud-storage/ http://indiwiz.com/2009/10/28/diomede-cloud-storage/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:19:02 +0000 Subhash Chandran http://indiwiz.com/?p=556 I use Amazon S3 for delivering content and as backup. Today I was introduced to an improvisation to the cloud storage model (offered by DiomedeStorage): demarcating the storage into different types:

  1. Online: The content is available immediately on request.
  2. Nearline: The content is made available within 5 minutes of request.
  3. Offline: The content is made available within 4 hours of request.

Advantage?

When you are storing content primarly for backup, you don’t need the backup system to be online. Files such as these can be moved to a disk which is later powered off: this benefits huge cost saving and is a greener approach.

Due to this innovative model, DiomedeStorage is able to offer services which are fraction of the cost of S3. Beautiful innovation :-)

]]> http://indiwiz.com/2009/10/28/diomede-cloud-storage/feed/ 1 James Gosling writes about Netbeans Kenai.com support http://indiwiz.com/2009/04/30/james-gosling-writes-about-netbeans-kenaicom-support/ http://indiwiz.com/2009/04/30/james-gosling-writes-about-netbeans-kenaicom-support/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:26:58 +0000 Subhash Chandran http://indiwiz.com/?p=280 The post is interesting. Kenai.com as a cloud based project hosting infrastructure is interesting. But …

Given Oracle’s acquisition of SUN, I am quite unsure if Oracle would continue investing in a Kenai.com. Or, for that matter, in Netbeans (I am a Netbeans addict, and pray that they do it).

So what have I done? I have created an account in Kenai.com. But, for the moment I am not going to host any of my OpenSource initiatives in Kenai.com. Wait and see is the only thing I can do now.

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