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We’re Never Content – Amazon announces a forthcoming CDN layered on top of S3 with “edge locations on three continents” – presumably North America, Europe and Asia – “in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.” Presumably Amazon is planning to use this in-house for their digital media sales, or possibly for static content on their website.
Tape, Roman Chariots and Data Management – “But here’s where it gets insidious, we know look at the mess that tape has created, and instead of asking the question: ‘Is a data protection infrastructure predicated on creating whole copies on a regular basis flawed?’ We ask the question: ‘How can I make creating and storing full copies more efficient?’” An interesting read – nothing new – but somehow I don’t think that the solution the author would propose involves tape in an HSM scenario. Which is too bad, because an HSM environment using tape really can address the problems mentioned in the article, as well as other issues such as capacity and power.

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