On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:21 -0500, Peter Murray wrote:
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> On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Tim Shearer wrote:
> > Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3?
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> > Anybody rejected it as an idea?
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> > Willing to share?  Please do.
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> Tim,
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> I looked at the idea in comparison with OCLC's Digital Archive and  
> posting my findings:  Long-term Preservation Storage: OCLC Digital  
> Archive versus Amazon S3 (http://dltj.org/article/oclc-digital-archive-vs-amazon-s3/ 
> ).  To this point, OhioLINK has done neither, but I do have some  
> personal experience with Amazon S3 for posting large media on my blog.

Nice article - did you consider anything like Hadoop, which is Yahoo's open source distributed filesystem/distributed computing application?  I've been looking at it and had a demo setup just to do a proof of concept on the dfs, it's very compelling.

http://hadoop.apache.org/core/

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