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On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:21 -0500, Peter Murray wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Tim Shearer wrote: > > Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3? > > > > Anybody rejected it as an idea? > > > > Willing to share? Please do. > > > Tim, > > 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/ P > > > Peter > - -- > Peter Murray http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/ > Assistant Director, New Service Development tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338 > OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio > The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ > Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) > Comment: Ask me how you can start digitally signing your email. > > iEYEARECAAYFAkkZoxMACgkQ4+t4qSfPIHIKUwCfSMoJL8OT1MgvNbDteFMnsBh3 > OeAAn1eku0Ba28kq7lhbPbkRyBAwUO19 > =3VVY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Phil Cryer | Open Source Dev Lead | web www.mobot.org | skype phil.cryer