Well, I have **just** got access to the Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) Beta Service - should be interesting to see how this thing works. Going to try and get some Jini services up and running on there….
Will add some more entries when I have had time to play with it further.
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Add comment September 6th, 2006
Google Labs have just released a paper about Big Table. Big Table is “a sparse, distributed, persistent multidimensional
sorted map” that provides other Google components with a scalable and reliable persistent data storage layer. This is one of several infrastructure components that Google apps are built from including: Map Reduce, GFS, etc.
The thought that is going through my head is whether Google might open up this system and allow the public to use it. Clearly you could use Big Table as a file storage medium. This could then become a direct competitor to Amazon’s S3 file storage service. That would be an interesting battle 
Via Greg (as usual)
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3 comments September 1st, 2006
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