<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>Our decision to leave Amazon grid computing framework isn't only to save money even that saving </div><div>money isn't too bad when you've thousands of Amazon medium/big images running 24/7, exchanging </div><div>huge number of messages per day.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of our clients simply don't like SaaS stuffs at all. So, we MUST change for them</div><div>because they want full control on their business data from A to Z (most of time due to confidentiality reasons).</div><div><br></div><div>Joe Weinman from AT&T wrote a nice post about that:</div><div><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/31047">http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/31047</a></div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Y.</div><div><br><div><div>Le 16 août 08 à 05:42, john s wolter a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Jon,<br><br>"Pushing beyond the bounds of reality" is just what is needed to handle the web services future. Current ways of scaling data centers and web applications requires a good sized pitch of money. When, not if, these kind of infrastructures are built, mashing-up a new worldwide company's virtual IT infrastructure will be easy. Planet sized problems will have the needed technical resources. <br> <br>Erlang's features or its successors will be of vital help. They give us a a glimpse of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come">Things to Come</a>. Where will it end? Given these capabilities the answer is "Y" of course go ahead.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Jon Singler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonsingler@gmail.com">jonsingler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">> What I'm looking after is a free, simple, and reliable (with<br> > replication suport) library to store large<br> > number (thousands to million) of very big files (>1gb per file) on<br> > secondary storage.<br> <br> </div>What you're looking for doesn't exist and can't exist. You're asking<br> for something "simple" that is also "reliable (with replication<br> support)" for storing huge numbers of huge files. Any system that is<br> the latter cannot possibly be the former. Asking for it to be free as<br> well is really pushing beyond the bounds of reality.<br> <br> Among the non-free alternatives, I doubt that you're going to be able<br> to find anything simpler or more reliable than S3, with a management<br> layer on top.<br> <br> But best of luck to you in your quest :-)<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br> erlang-questions mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br> <a href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John S. Wolter President<br>Wolter Works<br>Mailto:<a href="mailto:johnswolter@wolterworks.com">johnswolter@wolterworks.com</a><br>Desk 1-734-665-1263<br>Cell: 1-734-904-8433<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>